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Editorial: Much of the football and the spectacle has been wonderful. But much more than sport was at stake

He says being pitch-side at the final in Qatar is like having 'the Willy Wonka golden ticket'.

DOHA: There's a memorable scene in Omkara, Vishal Bhardwaj's 2006 badlands take on Shakespeare's Othello. It is biting in its irony, cruelly emasculating in delivery. Langda Tyagi makes Rajju distribute wedding cards for Dolly's wedding to Omi. Nothing wrong with that, just that Dolly was betrothed to marry Rajju not…

Manchester City take on Leeds United at Elland Road in their first Premier League game back after the break in the season.

DOHA: "After the game is before the game." When Sepp Herberger, counted as among football’s earliest philosophers, first uttered this strange truism of the game, he would never have thought it would ring so true ahead of a World Cup final nearly seven decades later.

It won't be a reality until 2025 at the earliest, as the international match calendar structure will remain unchanged until then, but a Women's Club World Cup is long overdue

For the past month we’ve watched the biggest sports event in the world take place in the middle of a crime scene yet nothing changes

World Cup news: Infantino announces new agent rules at Qatar 2022 speech with transfer implications.

Mateo Kovacic has revealed that Chelsea teammates teased him and Hakim Ziyech that they would win the race back to Stamford Bridge - by being the first Blues players knocked out of the World Cup.