Dan King

MO Salah and Egypt buried the penalty curse of the Pharoahs to make their own history. Under Salah’s captaincy, the team had twice tasted spotkick agony on the big occasion against Senegal – …

JARED Borgetti knows how hard it is for a Mexican to make it in English football. Let alone after suffering a life-threatening injury. Which is why Borgetti and all of Mexico hail Raul Jimenez as a…

CRISTIANO RONALDO called out an Argentinian air hostess on the way to Portugal’s World Cup showdown with Spain. Ronaldo, who confirmed on Saturday that this will be his last World Cup, has had a ca…

MIKEL MERINO put Spain into the World Cup last-16 with a late goal – and he dumped Cristiano Ronaldo out. His strike in the 90th minute was enough to down a turgid Portugal. Spain had a big e…

BELGIUM’S quarter-final preparations have been hit by a club versus country row over Zeno Debast. The defender’s club, Sporting Lisbon, have banned him from playing against Spain because of a disag…

SPAIN set up a semi-final showdown with France at the World Cup thanks to Mikel Merino’s dramatic late winner against Belgium. The Arsenal star pounced on a spill by Manchester United goalkee…

BREEL Embolo’s controversial sending off stoked the conspiracy theories surrounding Argentina. In yet another decision favouring the defending champions, Embolo was shown a second yellow card…

ARGENTINA set up a semi-final showdown with England at the World Cup – thanks to another huge slice of VAR luck and a Julian Alvarez special. Lionel Messi and Co will face the Three Lions on …

ARGENTINA players make no secret of how the Falklands War will inspire them against England. After the quarter final win over Switzerland, they once more sang the team song whose words begin “For t…

LAMINE YAMAL won his battle of the superstars with Kylian Mbappe. But the Spain winger’s biggest impact on the match was pretty much accidental. Yamal knew little about it when he drew the foul fro…