Quarter-finalists. Norway leaves the FIFA World Cup 2026™ having gone further than any Norwegian side in history. That deserves to be said plainly, before the details — before the disallowed goals and the late drama and the image of Erling Haaland walking off the pitch at 105 minutes at the Miami Stadium. Before all of […]

Nobody expected Norway to be here. That is not a slight — it is simply the truth. A nation of five million people, reaching the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup 2026™, preparing to face England at the Miami Stadium. The neutrals love them. England’s defenders certainly respect them. And anyone who watched what happened […]

Some strikers dazzle you with footwork. Others move so quickly they leave defenders grasping at air. Erling Haaland does something entirely different. He positions himself with almost mechanical precision at the edge of the penalty area, and then scores. Again. And again. And again. There is a terrifying simplicity to how he plays. No elaborate […]