It was past midnight in Berlin and, in the bowels of the Olympiastadion, one England player after another emerged from the dressing room in stony-faced silence. Some heads…
Read more Shock, fear, euphoria and heartbreak: The story of England’s Euro 2024Follow live coverage of England vs Netherlands in the Euro 2024 semi-final today A tear in the universe opened up at the Allianz Arena. A space that wasn’t…
Read more Perfection, by Lamine YamalThe semi-finals line-up for Euro 2024 is complete. With France and Spain having assured themselves of places in the last four yesterday, England and the Netherlands followed them…
Read more Euro 2024 day 23: England’s ‘cheat code’ water bottle and can the Dutch go all the way?Follow live coverage of Spain vs Germany and Portugal vs France at Euro 2024 today For a second, Cristiano Ronaldo looked like he might be on the edge…
Read more Cristiano Ronaldo cannot rage against the dying of the light foreverFollow live coverage of Romania vs Netherlands and Turkey vs Austria at Euro 2024 today Luciano Spalletti still hadn’t found the Iserlohn mole. “I don’t know how to…
Read more Paranoia, moles and ‘poison coming from all sides’ – inside Italy’s awful Euro 2024Follow live coverage of Switzerland vs Italy and Germany vs Denmark at Euro 2024 today The European Championship has been drenched in beer. In the fan zones and…
Read more Beer, Euro 2024, and all those cups – what’s going on?There is a reason, at the very moment Gareth Southgate and his players were having obscenities and plastic cups hurled at them in Cologne on Tuesday, every leading…
Read more Euro 2024 and the lopsided draw affecting which teams are considered likely finalistsHarry Kane has responded to Gary Lineker’s criticism of England’s Euro 2024 campaign by saying former national team players have a “responsibility” to consider the impact of their…
Read more Kane says ex-England players have a ‘responsibility’ following Lineker criticismJude Bellingham wasn’t having it. He wasn’t having Serbia forcing their way back into this match and, once it was over, he wasn’t having anyone rain on his…
Read more England start Euro 2024 with a win – but there was that familiar issue of losing control“Their average age is 26. They’re in the prime of their footballing lives,” Clive Tyldesley, the ITV commentator, said into his microphone as England prepared to kick off…
Read more Wayne Rooney, England’s raging bull at Euro 2004: ‘His movement, his speed… he was not human’More than 40 members of Ukraine’s national-team party were spread around the centre circle of Wroclaw’s Tarczynski Arena. Players, coaches and backroom staff locked their gaze on the…
Read more Ukraine qualify for Euro 2024: ‘The world is going to watch and see we never give up’Northern Ireland’s doomed bid to reach the 2024 European Championship will have a suitably downbeat conclusion at Windsor Park in Belfast tonight. Denmark, who ensured their qualification on…
Read more Casement Park – Euro 2028’s derelict stadium caught in a storm of politics and protestsErling Haaland is just six away from Norway’s goalscoring record, so it is surely inevitable that he will soon be his nation’s most prolific striker ever. On one…
Read more Erling Haaland is rapidly closing in on an international record that has stood since 1934
