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In this issue All World Cups are unique, from ambition to bid to execution. The first triple staging with the expanded field of 48 teams and 1 04 matches was appropriate to a central host which boasts of being biggest and best. Biggest World Cup, certainl

Henry Winter's World Cup Diary, Day 35 Order the latest copy of World Soccer here Miami/Philadelphia/New JerseySometimes you have days that expand your horizons, challenge your perceptions of people and test your ageing hamstrings' ability to withstand ru

Henry Winter's World Cup Diary, Day 34 Order the latest copy of World Soccer here Jersey/MiamiA confession. I was in such a filthy mood when England lost to Argentina in Atlanta on Wednesday, and like everyone just enraged by Thomas Tuchel's handling of t

Henry Winter's World Cup Diary, Day 33 Order the latest copy of World Soccer here "What was your coach doing?" I'd only just got in my Uber at Newark airport, mentioned I was here for the soccer, when the driver piped up. Ray was Algerian, a Real Madrid f

Henry Winter's World Cup Diary, Day 32 Order the latest copy of World Soccer here Reporters have myriad duties in the wake of such results. Within an hour of full-time, I'd first filed my match report, done Radio 4 on the whistle (and you know it's a seri

Henry Winter's World Cup Diary, Day 31 Order the latest copy of World Soccer here It was at the end of "Mr Brightside" that the fan in the Argentina shirt and fan in a Shearer 9 shirt from Euro 96 embraced. It was in a bar in mid-town Atlanta just after m

Henry Winter's World Cup Diary, Day 30 Subscribe to World Soccer Kansas City/AtlantaThe Spanish played a game at their camp where one of Luis de la Fuente's 26 was shown three club crests and had to name the player who journeyed between them. A test of kn

Henry Winter's World Cup Diary, Day 29 Subscribe to World Soccer Miami to Kansas CityI know it shouldn't be high on the list of what makes a great World Cup but I particularly enjoyed a night out in Miami on Friday, meeting England fans in a couple of liv

Henry Winter's World Cup Diary, Day 28 Subscribe to World Soccer MiamiWhen Thomas Tuchel was appointed England head coach it was generally accepted that the time to judge him properly was not until the knockout stages of the World Cup. Qualification would

In this issue It's a little bit later than usual, and please forgive us for diverting your attention away from the World Cup, but here is our Season Review issue where we look back on the 2025-26 domestic campaign. In the following pages we've covered all