Jenny Shin stuttered over the line at the ISPS HANDA Women's Scottish Open to secure her first LPGA Tour title in a decade with England's defending champion Lottie Woad finishing tied-37th as players prepared for next week's AIG Women's Open.
It was France's biggest hurdle at the World Cup – a team they haven't beaten since 2017. For Les Bleus, that streak continues as Spain outclassed Didier Deschamps' side with a 2-0 win in Dallas. The 2010 champions will now get a chance to add a second star to their shirt, as they'll face either England or Argentina who are going head-to-head this Wednesday for a spot in the final.
The final day of the 2026 World Cup quarter-finals will conclude with a pair of blockbuster matches involving two frontrunners and two dark horses. England face Norway in a match that could be defined by two superstar forwards: Erling Haaland and Harry Kane. Both strikers have been in rich goalscoring form at the World Cup so far, dragging their respective teams to the final eight.
Using a digital flat-bed scanner, our picture editor Jonny Weeks adapts some of his favourite images from the tournament and explores the trend of alternative photographyAlthough I’ve edited thousands of football photographs over the years, I’ve never attended a World Cup match. I envy those who get to be pitchside with their cameras for such big events. Yet, as I’ve discovered during this tournament, you don’t have to be there to create experimental images of the tournament.Slit-scanning is an alternative photographic process that I first tried many years ago. Using a narrow slit inside an analogue camera, the photographer winds a roll of film past the aperture to record the flow of time. It’s a tricky and laborious technique which produces curiously distorted results – almost like celebrating the problem of “rolling shutter”, which has vexed photographers for generations. Continue reading...
England midfielder’s experience with Arsenal last season taught him the need to be patient against teams unwilling to attackDeclan Rice is reflecting on the pivotal moment of his season so far, the one when plenty of people thought it was about to go wrong for him and Arsenal. It was a narrow and painful defeat for them at Manchester City in mid‑April, which meant the clubs were stride for stride with each other at the top of the Premier League. The momentum was with City. Were Arsenal about to blow it?The TV cameras picked out Rice on the Etihad Stadium pitch and, as he shook his head, he was easy to lipread. “It’s not done,” the England midfielder said. It was not. Arsenal won all of their remaining league games, finding a way through unbearable levels of tension. City did not and Arsenal were champions for the first time since 2004. “It could have gone either way,” Rice says with a smile. “That would have lived with me for ever.” Continue reading...
With one year to go on Wednesday, this week’s newsletter speaks to Aline Pellegrino and Angelina Constantino about their hopes for the tournamentWe are 365 days away from the 2027 Women’s World Cup, which will take place in eight Brazilian cities between 24 June and 25 July next year. This will be the third major women’s football tournament held in the country in the past two decades, after the 2007 Pan American Games and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and preparations are in full swing.Playing captain in 2007, the former defender Aline Pellegrino was appointed as executive director of legacy and stakeholder affairs for the 2027 tournament and will lead efforts to build the future of the women’s game after the tournament. The World Cup final, to be played at the Maracanã, will coincide with the 20th anniversary of Brazil’s Pan American football gold. Continue reading...
