To subscribe, click here. It now feels like we’re well underway in the World Cup with matches coming thick and fast. After the USA’s dominating win yesterday (more on that here), attention turns to an exciting fixture list for Saturday.

It may be cliché, but it doesn’t make it untrue – there’s nothing quite like the World Cup. As is true for over a billion fans around the world, my life has been punctuated every four years by the tournament. It evokes memories of pure elation and ...

In an article published Monday, CNN framed the 2026 FIFA World Cup as a potential “make or break” moment for the alcohol industry, which is grappling with slowing consumption and shifting drinking habits in key markets.

Nobody can predict how the 48 teams will do at the FIFA World Cup this summer, but if you wanted to gamble on Japan being the tidiest team, you’d surely clean up at the bookies. Thanks to a societal expectation of all Japanese people,