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Argentina yesterday became only the third team to win the World Cup by penalty shootout. The other two to have done it are Brazil and Italy. Brazil beat Italy 4-2 on penalties in the 1994 World Cup Final at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and Italy beat France 5-3 on penalties in the 2006 World Cup...

Don't forget that players are humans and get tired. There's only a certain amount of time that players can run around chasing a ball. If after 90 minutes they keep playing successive 10 minute bouts then they could end up playing another 90 minutes or 180 minutes until they get a goal. For...

The game could end up lasting for hours if they did that. I've just watched a video - "Has every FIFA World Cup been fixed?" - which basically talks about how FIFA may fix World Cups to try to get the team it wants to win to win. Interesting that this World Cup Final featured Messi for...

England 1966 World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst was the only player to score three goals in a World Cup Final until today. However, all three of Hurst's goals came from open play whereas two of Mbappe's were penalties, and Mbappe has the dubious distinction of being the first player to score...

After an illustrious career, which has seen him win almost everything in football and become one of the greatest players in history, Lionel Messi puts the cherry on the cake by winning the big one tonight. It's a fairytale. Here he is lifting the World Cup...

Live footage of thousands celebrating in the summer sunshine of Buenos Aires after Argentina win the World Cup...

Aguero joins celebrations FT: Argentina 3-3 France AET (4-2 on pens) Look at Sergio Aguero in the background, behind Lionel Messi, celebrating! The former Manchester City striker may have been leading the line for Argentina in this World Cup if he hadn't suffered heart problems last season...

French President Macron is on the pitch consoling Mbappe, who has just become only the second player after England's Geoff Hurst to score three goals in a World Cup Final, but has ended up losing.

ARGENTINA WIN THE WORLD CUP! FT: Argentina 3-3 France AET (4-2 on pens) Montiel's shirt is off! He's blubbing his eyes out! On the centre spot, a group of his team-mates drop to their knees and embrace each other as a few others run in the direction of Montiel and Martinez! This ground is...

IT'S IN! ARGENTINA HAVE WON THE WORLD CUP!!

If this goes in, Argentina win

3-2

If France miss this next one, Argentina win

ARGENTINA 3-1 FRANCE

FRANCE MISS AGAIN ARGENTINA FANS ROAR IN DELIGHT!

Debala puts Argentina 2-1 up, two each taken.

SAVED! FRANCE MISS THEIR SECOND PENALTY

Messi makes it 1-1

Here we go: Mbappe scores the first penalty.

What would 1966 winner Sir Geoff Hurst be feeling right now knowing he's no longer the only player to score a hat trick in a World Cup Final? He's probably watching it on TV.