The 2022 World Cup Final

We come to it at last. After exciting semi-finals, dozens of football matches, spectacular goals, great saves, horrendous mistakes, several shock results, and a plethora of tears, we had reached the final of the 2022 World Cup. Well, almost. There was the formality of the third-place playoff, between Croatia and Morocco. Here, players played for […]

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The 2022 World Cup Semi-Finals

For the quarter-final roundup, see here. It was time for the semi-finals of the 2022 World Cup. Three of the four teams to reach this stage had been here before. All three of those had been finalists before. Two of them had been finalists four years ago in Russia. Two of them had won the […]

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The 2022 World Cup Quarter-Finals

Of the 32 teams that qualified for Qatar, only eight remained. The wheat had been separated from the chaff, and the margins for error had reduced to virtually nothing. Things were getting serious. Croatia vs Brazil Talk about a contrast. We are told that Croatia, beaten finalists four years ago, have an ageing side, yet […]

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The 2022 World Cup – the Round of 16

If you want to check out my rundown of the Group Stages, see here. We had arrived at the knockout stages. Here, there would be no second chances, no opportunity for a reprieve, no ‘one more game to save themselves’. Defeat would mean going home, and the games would have to be settled on the […]

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The 2022 World Cup Group Stage

Here, I am keeping a running record of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. There has been much said about the decision to host the World Cup in Qatar. Questions around human rights, worker’s conditions, and FIFA corruption had dominated the tournament, before a ball had even been kicked. Would the question marks overshadow the […]

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The 2022 FIFA World Cup

We’re in an unusual position here folks. As I write this, it’s October, yet we have not had the World Cup. For the first time in the history of the competition, the FIFA World Cup, traditionally held during the European summer, will be held in November and December. There is a good reason for this. […]

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