The best matchdays at a World Cup are the ones that quietly stack drama on top of each other until…
For three weeks the World Cup has been a sprawling, generous thing — twelve groups, forty-eight teams, a fixture list…
Some matchdays you watch for the drama of who survives. June 26 was the other kind — the day the…
There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over a living room at the end of a long matchday,…
The last night of a World Cup group stage has a texture all its own. Six matches, three groups still…
Every World Cup runs two tournaments at once. There is the one you see on the bracket — the grind…
I have been waiting most of my adult life to write a sentence like this one: on June 24, Canada…
There is a phrase Canadian soccer fans have spent a lifetime never getting to say, and on June 28 we…
There is a number that has sat untouched at the top of the World Cup record books for sixteen years,…
Some matches are about survival; this one is about pride and position. Colombia and Portugal are both already through to…
For most of the last four decades, Canadian soccer fans have done their tournament arithmetic in the language of hope…
