How are London City Lionesses able to embark on such a transfer spree?
Many are in awe of the investment that Michele Kang is making into the women’s game. Others, though, are baffled
Thomas Meunier ‘hugely excited’ about joining Sunderland on a free transfer
Sunderland have completed the signing of the experienced Belgium right-back Thomas Meunier
The World Cup of Calvinball: Fifa’s hasty changes turn refereeing into a free-for-all | Beau Dure
Match officials are enforcing tweaks to the laws of the game that have hardly been tested. The results? Drama, ‘mistaken identities’ and lots of confusion
‘I root for underdogs’: football fans who don’t support their home country
Not everyone supports the country where they were born or grew up. Sometimes fans are won over by a player, place, population or style of play
Have the top four teams ever made up the World Cup semi-finalists before? | The Knowledge
Plus: back-to-back heavy wins and defeats, and an unsurprising challenger to a Lionel Messi record
Folarin Balogun: Ban reversal caused ‘a lot of outside noise, and that’s hard to avoid’
The US striker’s red card was suspended after Donald Trump made a series of calls to Fifa president Gianni Infantino
Football Daily | Will France’s showdown with Spain be the World Cup final in spirit?
In today’s Football Daily: France. Spain. And a proper humdinger
‘For Diego’: spectre of Maradona looms over Argentina ahead of England clash
The image of the national icon has been ever present through this World Cup, in banners and songs and memory. It adds a fresh layer to Wednesday’s semi-final
Norway turn World Cup heartbreak into celebration as huge crowds pack Oslo
More than 100,000 fans flooded the streets of Oslo to give their team a welcome, turning the heartbreak of their World Cup exit into a celebration
Strike action threatens new A-League season as post-World Cup glow again fades too fast | Joey Lynch
Stalled CBA negotiations have cast a pall over the game in Australia when it might be harnessing interest around the Socceroos’ World Cup run