Four teams left, two ties, and a card so top-heavy that there is not a single weak side to bet…
Eight teams left, four ties, and a betting card that has narrowed to the point where every price now carries…
The group stage ends tonight, and it ends with the three tightest tables of the lot. Groups J, K and…
The group stage is all but done, the Round of 32 begins tomorrow, and the part of the tournament I…
A Sunday-into-Monday card of four fixtures, three of which carry direct qualification implications and one of which features Lionel Messi…
If you went to bed at half-time on Saturday night convinced this World Cup was still a coin-flip between five…
A fortnight ago I wrote that the Golden Boot market had swung to Lionel Messi, then the sole leader and…
Today is the penultimate day of Round of 32 action — three ties, all of them intriguing, none of them…
Four award markets. Three settled exactly as priced. One did not, and it was the headline one. I have written…
Every so often a tournament strips away the romance and simply leaves you with the best. That is what World…
The tournament is done and everything is settled. The final delivered the single most misread situation in knockout betting, and…
Two goals conceded in five matches. Four clean sheets in a row. A head-to-head record of six wins from seven…
Sunday at 8pm Irish time, and for 105 minutes nothing happened that a scoreline would record. Then a substitute finished…
There is a version of this column where I tell you Scotland have never beaten Brazil at a World Cup,…
There is a version of this preview that runs through the expected line-ups, the xG numbers and the tactical match-ups.…
Spain did not just win a World Cup. They won it with a set of numbers no champion has produced…
Would you rather be the team with the best individual attacker at the tournament, or the team with the strongest…
I have spent more time arguing about Lionel Messi at football than I have spent on most relationships. Through the…
I will start with the headline number, because it deserves to sit on its own for a moment. Harry Kane…
The Golden Boot market has just flipped, and it is worth stopping to note why. For most of this tournament…
Both managers have used the same phrase, unprompted, and neither was exaggerating. France against Spain, 8pm Irish time from AT&T…
Some quarter-finals arrive quietly. This one arrives carrying four years of history, a manager’s long goodbye and a refereeing controversy…
Some semi-finals need building up. This one needs calming down. England against Argentina, 8pm Irish time from Mercedes-Benz Stadium in…
With Ireland watching from home and Scotland already eliminated, England are the side carrying the British-Irish interest into the knockouts…
I keep telling Irish punters that the British-Irish angle on this tournament is England’s defence, not their attack. Spend an…
I have been watching and writing about football for longer than I care to admit, and I thought I had…
The outright market has quietly reshuffled its top three this week, and if you only glance at the headline prices…
I have watched a lot of dead-rubber matchdays in my time — the kind where the qualified sides rest their…
There are nights at a World Cup that feel like a midweek formality, and then there are nights like 1…
