There is plenty of football being played during the September window: Euro qualifiers, AFCON qualifiers, Conmebol qualifiers, international...
The World Cup has concluded with Argentina lifting the trophy. No one can deny Argentina was overall more deserving than France in the final,...
With England losing to France in the quarterfinal, all 4 Group B teams (England, USA, Iran, and Wales) have now been eliminated. Here is my...
Which groups do you find most/least interesting? Group A, which have the hosts Qatar alongside with Holland, Senegal and Ecuador? Group B, with...
I don't know why we still don't have Word Cup 2022 sub-forums as we had for Brazil 2014 or Russia 2018? I am not active on social media outlets...
I have patiently read through a lot of comments about the AFC teams at the World Cup. Most of the comments I have read are impressionistic and...
The AFC contingent in Qatar is still awaiting the winner of the playoff between Australia and the UAE and, subsequently the playoff against...
There are a lot of scattered threads that relate to the draw that will be underway in 20 minutes, but I was surprised to see none covering the...
The site I used to rely on for live streaming of many football matches across different regions (bingsports) has for some reason gone offline...
One of the main reasons fans put extra, and for the most part empirically unjustified, focus on clearly dated (occasionally ridiculously so) past...
I would love to see Iran and S.Korea both advance from their groups in WC-22 and meet at the quarterfinal stage! It would be like USA-Mexico in...
While its a bit too early for this, I was wondering how people here see the different confederations would do in Qatar? Will UEFA end up grabbing...
Last time, Italy was obviously the most noteworthy absentee in Russia 2018, but there were several others too including the United States from...
After the duo of matches yesterday which had more drama and goals than anyone could have hoped for, six (Denmark, Italy, Czech Rep., Italy, Spain,...
We are midway through the R-16, with Belgium, the Czech Rep, Italy, and Denmark making it to the QFs while Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria and...
Tonight's R-16 matches will begin with the Dutch taking on the Czech Republic and continue with one of the top tournament favorites,Belgium,...
Wales v Denmark My guess is that most neutrals will be rooting for the Danes. In any case, I expect Denmark to win this match and to advance to...
An excellent piece in the New York Times Magazine feature story. While it tells only the US and Israeli sides of the story, it tell that story...
Many fans, especially novices to the game, give undue attention to statistics that tell very little about how well or poorly a side has performed...
These are the results I see through my crystal ball: from the opening match to the final. As I have mentioned elsewhere, I believe Russia 2018...
I have cited various power rankings in debates with fans of different teams and have debated how these different teams rate and rank. Here I like...
I like to use this thread to focus specifically on Iran and its players in particular. In this first post, I will try to introduce Iran's top...
In the last World Cup in Brazil, the award for the most surprising sides would IMO go to Costa Rica and Algeria, both of which entered the...
Around half of the World Cup finalists have already been decided and preparatory matches on the road to Russia have started for many of these...
Only 3 teams have booked their ticket to Russia 2018, namely Russia (as hosts), Brazil and Iran. 29 other teams will eventually make it. Who...