Tuchel: the divvying up www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The grotesque.

Just a note to say: that ex-wife speaking out about her abusive ICE ex-husband is braver than all of ICE put together. No question at all.

Confirming: It's vile out there. (7 pm, 32 C, AQI 180, feels worse)

Something to look forward to: French radio saying Zidane expected to be announced by next Thursday as national team coach, contract ready for signing, plans a 25-person staff, intends a strong role for women on his technical team.

These takes are so easy, so thin, so US-ian, so annoying.

Evoking the Malvinas rebukes Milei, an admirer of Thatcher who avoids the topic and is being standoffish about the team. Meanwhile, privatization and sell-offs advance: "Mientras la selección argentina sigue avanzando en el mundial, el gobierno sigue avanzando con la venta del país."

LOLOL www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The grotesque.

Every single paragraph of this peace is deeply lacerating, and incredibly insightful. An extraordinary essay by Abdaljawad Omar about the structure of feeling of Palestinianness: www.equator.org/articles/mor...

“one of those moments where the clock starts to tick backwards, the skies darken, the cow really does appear to have jumped over the moon, and the energy inside the stadium is suddenly revolving entirely around that slouching, mooching figure in dark blue…” www.theguardian.com/football/202...

That whole second half is something one will want to go back and re-watch in the future. An archive performance. How many halves of football in this tournament can we say that about?

Tuchel joins Deschamps and Ancelotti at the bar in some Holiday Inn in New Jersey

I don't care. I'm shaped by '82 and '86. This was a semi-final. This is the real thing. Not some kind of perfection cooked in a lab. Not something clean. Not something pragmatic. Emotion. History. Psychology. Paradox. Ghosts. Thank you Argentina

volume way up www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4t1...

i know it's not quite over but I TOLD YOU

Andrés Cantor is losing it

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAHHHAAAHAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Ok. Whatever the result, I am satisfied with this match. The horrid aftertaste from yesterday is gone.

YES

Hijo de...

Diop Tehuti Djed-Hotep Spence is one of the players I've enjoyed seeing this tournament, and not just for the great name

People who say "VARgentina" sound like people who say "Obummer" or "Drumpf"

On balance the dynamics at the half favor Argentina.

102 matches into a 104-match tournament, and some ppl are still watching on Fox. Wild

That was a bombazo. Close

El Cholito seems to enjoy getting stuck in

Some great tackles AND some ugly fouls. Love it

Getting some good gratuitous shoves in. The psychological dimension

Completely chaotic anthems. A promising start.

¡ Vamos ! 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷

Indeed. The next step, not that far off, is amphetamines and crack cocaine like the Liberian warlords and the RUF in Sierra Leone gave their child soldiers so they could maim civilians

The autopsy on French sports radio is BRUTAL

Does the explosive diarrhea parasite come in a high-testosterone variety?

The grotesque.

1986, the (arguably) greatest World Cup www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wVh...

“Por las Malvinas, y por el Diego.” Few rivalries in international football carry the same charge — a collision of politics, culture and sports — as England against Argentina at the World Cup. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/w...

Un jour, une ZUP, une carte postale : Paradis (Meulan)

No one will care, least of all the teams themselves. They'll play all their substitutes and go easy to avoid injury. (Also, it'll be France v England)

Very lucid post-match words from Mbappé. He's really come into his own.

Some of us elders here remember the 1982 semi-final.

A thin silver lining is that Zidane has a clean slate to establish his principles when he takes over in a couple weeks.

Spain will do to England exactly what they just did to France. Spain - Argentina is much more interesting. Spain is "better" by every measure. But Argentina is ... different.

Outclassed from strategy to tactics to execution. Spotting Spain a goal on a penalty — from a position where both your options were liabilities — killed this early. And Spain have played a classic sneaky tournament, waiting for the semi-final to really come into their own.

🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 🇦🇷 I don't care

Catastrophic match. Outclassed. France came to play vertical, Spain horizontal. But Spain cut out the vertical channels and France had no way round. Big second-guessing for Deschamps, who before this year would never align this way instead of a tight 4-4-2 or 4-3-3.

Putain de bordel de MERDE

It doesn't look good.

If France loses this I'm going pure hater - Argentina all the way

US-ian "how to translate banlieue" discourse is very US-ian