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‘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
The World Cup of Calvinball: Fifa’s hasty changes turn refereeing into a free-for-all
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
Even at 39, Lionel Messi can still hurt England with his sprinting ability
The Argentina captain conserves his energy for bursts in key moments and his top speed compares favourably with his contemporaries
Have the top four teams ever made up the World Cup semi-finalists before?
Plus: back-to-back heavy wins and defeats, and an unsurprising challenger to a Lionel Messi record
Love and hate collide: England v Argentina is not simply a grudge match
Look beyond the flashpoints and flare-ups and perhaps this is the greatest and most romantic of footballing rivalries
‘Diego, give us a hand’: Argentina v England revives historic tensions
Decades after the Falklands war and Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal, the fixture is once again being discussed as far more than a game
‘Amazing’ Spain are peaking at right time for World Cup final, says De la Fuente
Luis de la Fuente said his team were excited but challenged them to improve after they completely outplayed a highly fancied France
Thomas Tuchel: ‘Argentina will be fuelled by history – but we are ready’
Thomas Tuchel believes England will face an Argentina team ‘fuelled by history’ in their World Cup semi-final in Atlanta on Wednesday
Thomas Tuchel trusts England’s ‘special breed’ to find a way past Messi’s Argentina
Head coach praises his players’ ability to rise to the occasion and ‘put on a fight’ against the defending champions in the semi-final on Wednesday