Daily Archives: July 21, 2026

Goal-fest finishes top, but how low is the final in our rankings of all 104 2026 World Cup games?

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Ferran Torres scores the winner for Spain against Argentina in the World Cup final
“Do you have a favourite match of the World Cup? Could you order all of them? Well, that’s what we’ve done. The Athletic has ranked all 104 games, from the worst to the best. Do you agree? Let us know in the comments. …”
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Lautaro Martinez nods Lionel Messi’s cross into the net to send holders Argentina into the World Cup final

Fifa gives fraud ‘an open door’ with betting, says Council of Europe chief

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The final of a controversial World Cup takes place on Sunday. Alain Berset said: ‘The celebration will end tonight. The questions will not.’
“Fifa has been accused of providing an ‘open door to fraud’ and allowing political influence to cast doubt on the integrity of the World Cup in a stinging rebuke by the Council of Europe’s secretary general. In an open letter published to coincide with Sunday’s final, Alain Berset also called for a new integrity framework to be built before the 2030 tournament, which is mainly being staged in Europe, and warned that Fifa was embroiled in a crisis involving money and power. Berset referenced the scandal surrounding Fifa’s decision to shelve the suspension of the USA striker Folarin Balogun and made apparent allusions to comments made by the Paraguayan senator Celeste Amarilla about Kylian Mbappé and by the former Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy about the France team. …”
Guardian