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Lotta goals in the desert - World Cup Daily Diary: Day 12Japan, Germany, and Belgium all accomplished the absurd in different ways today. And that’s before we even get to Morocco winning their group. Let’s kick this pig!...

Lotta goals in the desert - World Cup Daily Diary: Day 8There may have been more exciting games or more dramatic endings in this tournament, but there hasn’t been one with more intrigue combined with a higher quality of play than this one. Argentina was staring at the abyss, much like Germany was today, giving the game something of a snuff-film air, and ...

World Cup Daily Diary Day 4 — Germany are who we thought they wereGame of the day: Japan 2 - Germany 1 ...

World Cup 2022 Preview — Group F: Old man take a look at my defense, I’m a lot like you

“BELGIUM’S LAST CHANCE!” You’ve heard or seen this already. They are Europe’s big waste of the last decade. There has been no bigger collection of talent than what Belgium has sported for the last four major tournaments, and a 3rd place in Russia is all they’ve had to show for it. Either this is whe...

Harry Kane decides to stay with Tottenham

It just might not be as violent as we thought. But maybe weirder. ...

Denmark can absolutely win the whole thing

We’ve reached the quarterfinals of Euro 2020(1), which is when fans of the countries still in contention really start dreaming, and the rest realize that fucking-off-of-work time is probably going to run out with only three Monday-Friday match days left (#DayDrinkingIsForAllSeasons). For the teams t...

Belgium found the turbo button — it wears No. 7

The best you can describe Belgium’s situation as against Denmark was “awkward.” While a good portion of the Belgian squad is personally involved with Christian Eriksen,Thursday’s game was about Danish unity and recovery. This was clearly a catharsis for fans and players in red alike, a group that we...

Euro 2021: For the last time, is this Belgium’s time?

For European teams, the lack of opportunities to actually win a trophy can muddy the results they do get. There’s only a trophy on offer every two years (when there isn’t a pandemic), and perhaps Spain at the beginning of the last decade altered our perception of what’s success and what isn’t....