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St Edward's Crown leaves Tower of London ahead of Coronation BBC News Saturday 3rd December 2022 The movement of the crown was kept a closely guarded secret The St Edward's Crown has been removed from the Tower of London to be resized for the King ahead of the Coronation. The historic...

The Last 16 gets underway today. From now on, if you lose you're out... Netherlands Vs USA Argentina Vs Australia

Group G Cameroon 1-0 Brazil Even the mighty five-time winners Brazil lose against underdogs, but the world's No1 ranked side still go into the Last 16 as group winners while Cameroon exit the tournament. Before this match Brazil had not had a shot on their goal in this World Cup. Cameroon's...

Cliff Richard - "Heart of Christmas" (2022) At the age of 82, with his first album being released in 1959 and being the third biggest selling artist in the UK after The Beatles and Elvis Presley, Sir Cliff is one of the favourites to be crowned the 2022 Christmas Number 1 with this song, in the...

A dark Christmas song played everywhere almost constantly in Britain at this time of year and it's my favourite song... Jona Lewie - "Stop The Cavalry" (1980) Hey, Mr. Churchill comes over here To say we're doing splendidly But it's very cold out here in the snow Marching to and from the enemy...

At first, when I saw the title, I thought you were talking about THE King. Thankfully, I was wrong and he's still a man.

Group E Japan shock Spain to win the group, with Spain runners-up Germany beat Costa Rica but are knocked out of the tournament

Meanwhile, Belgium - the world's No2 ranked team after Brazil - are also out after drawing 0-0 with Croatia. England, Brazil and France are looking very good - France lost 1-0 to Tunisia but fielded a weakened side having already qualified for the Last 16. One of those three will win it.

Absolutely amazing in Group E tonight. Spain and Germany knew they would qualify if they beat Japan and Costa Rica respectively. Most people probably thought it was a foregone conclusion that that would happen. However, Japan had other ideas. Germany did beat Costa Rica 4-2 but Japan - who had...

A former Wales player before the match said that England have the strongest squad at this tournament. It just comes down to whether manager Southgate will use his squad wisely - starting the players that need to be started, bringing on the required substitutions and when necessary, his...

MARCUS RASHFORD HITS ENGLAND 100TH WORLD CUP GOAL AND SENDS THEM INTO KNOCKOUTS!! 💯⚽️🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I know Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina by the Israelis when getting off a bus from work near his home in 1960 - I read the book - but I'm pretty sure Adolf Hitler committed suicide in 1945. Eichmann was one of the major architects of the Final Solution. The Israelis executed Eichmann...

One of those little facts that I like: this is the first major tournament in which Wales have played where they have not won at least one match.

Chelsea striker Pulisic sends USA through to Last 16 in grudge match Group B Iran 0-1 USA The United States won their World Cup grudge match against Iran as Christian Pulisic scored the winner to set up a last-16 tie with the Netherlands. The Chelsea forward turned AC Milan defender...

England score their 100th World Cup goal to comfortably win the derby match Group B Wales 0-3 England Marcus Rashford inspired England to the victory required to top Group B and ensure it was despair for Wales as they went out of the tournament after a bitterly disappointing World Cup...

Koulibaly sends African champions Senegal through to face England in Last 16 Group A Ecuador 1-2 Senegal Kalidou Koulibaly's nerveless volley sent Senegal into the World Cup's knockout stages for only the second time in their history as they eliminated Ecuador at a rowdy Khalifa...

Gakpo nets again as Dutch beat hosts to top the group Group A Netherlands 2-0 Qatar In-form Cody Gakpo scored again as the Netherlands finished top of Group A, ending Qatar's miserable involvement at their home World Cup with a third consecutive defeat. Qatar's dismal showing means they...

It's tough being PM of a country that has four "international" teams. Who do you congratulate or commiserate with when they play each other? This was the first time that any UK sides have played each other in the World Cup. The anomaly stems from football being invented in Britain before the...

The whistle goes! The USA win 1-0 and Iran, like Wales, are out. The USA play the Netherlands in the Last 16.