FIFA World Cup

Man, sometimes you just get stuck on a piece of history, right? For me this week, it was all about settling a stupid bar argument I had with my neighbor, Tony. We were watching some old clips, and Tony, bless...

Man, sometimes you just get stuck on the stupidest little questions, right? It was early Saturday morning, just trying to enjoy my coffee and actually read the newspaper for once instead of just scrolling through the doom-feed. My daughter, she’s...

The Hunt Begins: Why I Needed to Find the U20 Women’s World Cup Stream You know me, I don’t just sit around waiting for things to happen. When the FIFA Women’s U20 World Cup schedule dropped, I knew I had...

Man, putting together a guide for a match like Palmeiras vs Al Ahly FC isn’t like doing a simple Premier League game. You can’t just hit up the usual sites and find everything laid out for you. I started this...

Look, I usually don’t mess with football predictions this deep. I watch the games, sure, but I never go full data-scientist mode on a Club World Cup match. I’m too old for that kind of stress. But my buddy, Tony,...

Man, I needed to figure out who was coming to the FIFA Club World Cup in Atlanta. I mean, the whole thing is set for the US next year, and Atlanta is hosting big matches. I had to know which...

Man, if you’re an England fan, you know this feeling. Every single World Cup, every Euros. It’s not just hope; it’s a terrifying, aggressive expectation that is loaded onto 23 young blokes. I started this whole thing because I got...

The Kick-Off: Why I Even Bothered You know how it goes. You think you know something, you’ve been watching football for decades, and then some kid asks a simple question and you freeze up. That was me last month. I...

Man, I gotta tell you, sometimes the simplest bits of trivia are the ones that take you down the deepest rabbit hole. You wouldn’t believe what kicked this whole thing off. I was just sitting here, trying to sort out...

I was having a ridiculous argument last weekend with a buddy of mine who insisted that the World Cup has always been this huge, globally representative affair. He just kept hammering on about “the spirit of global unity” from day...