Christopher Bucktin

OPINION: Trump's phone call to overturn Balogun's ban has exposed Infantino as a spineless puppet unfit to run football, and turned any US World Cup success into a permanently tainted stain on the game

“If Infantino had any sense of shame, he would resign,” lifelong England fan Ray Harada, 67, said. “If FIFA’s own rules can be bent after one phone call from Donald Trump, then what is the point of having rules at all?”

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has been a phantom figure at this World Cup.

'Donald Trump’s relentless self-promotion and interference poison everything around him, turning politics, sport and public life into vehicles for ego, favouritism and division - just take the World Cup'

British bowls-playing pensioner accused of smuggling £200,000 of meth in Chile is set to return home after his case was closed on health grounds

Neighbours in William Eastment's quiet Somerset cul-de-sac were shocked when he was arrested. Prosecutors have now reportedly closed the case against him

The British pensioner accused of acting as an international drug runner will have his case formally closed tomorrow, allowing him to return home to the UK immediately.

Tech giants have been ordered to preserve Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s messages with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell as New Mexico prosecutors widen their criminal investigation into paedophile's secretive Zorro Ranch

Exclusive William 'Billy Boy' Eastment tells for the first time how a fake £7.7m inheritance lured him into a globe-spanning scam that left him facing years in a Chilean jail before prosecutors accepted he had been duped

England and Argentina will meet in a World Cup semi-final charged by war, racism rows, footballing hatred and decades of unfinished business for the World Cup 2026 Quarter Finals