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Jeremy Corbyn has called on bossed to be flexible with the millions of evening workers who want to watch England take on Colombia tonight. More than one in four UK employees (5.7 million people) work evenings and many of them will want to watch the matches too, with some potentially skipping their shifts to watch the big game. According to recent statistics, the FIFA World Cup held in Brazil in 2014 resulted in an estimated 131 million lost working days as...

Brazilian forward Neymar is the coolest footballer currently playing in the World Cup, according to Brits. The PSG striker, who scored Brazil’s opener in yesterday’s second round victory over Mexico, beat two Englishmen to top the poll. Frontmen Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rashford were the members of Gareth Southgate’s squad to make the top three. French forward Killian Mbappé, who notched a brace against Argentina in the last round and announced he would be donating his match fee to charity,...

The Jhonas family are the only residents flying the Colombian flag on the Kirby Estate in Bermondsey that has been festooned with 300 England flags

New Arsenal guvnor Unai Emery continues to stamp his mark on the Gunners, this time with the much-anticipated signing of perhaps the fastest centre back in the Bundesliga. The Greek defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos has made his mark at Borussia Dortmund with crunching sweeps, spectacular slide tackles and incredible speed for a solid centre back. Aged 30 he is at the peak of his powers and much needed boost for Arsenal’s defence tested to the max last season by the Premier...

Ccountdown to the historic Yankees vs Red Sox series has begun with the two baseball giants set to meet on June 29-30, 2019 at London Stadium. The game will mark Major League Baseball’s first ever played in Europe and will be showcased in front of an estimated capacity of 55,000 in the East End. It means the UK now follows other international venues that have hosted regular season Major League games, including Mexico, Japan, Puerto Rico and Australia. Commissioner Manfred said: “Major League...

Kai Ward, 48, Bognor Regis got the extreme haircut to celebrate England's leading goal-scorer spearheading England's World Cup efforts in Russia.

Ivor Broadis is 95 and still watches ever game

With England and Belgium already qualified ahead of tonight's 'dead rubber' clash in Kaliningrad attention has turned to the virtues of second place in the group, which on paper maps an easier route to the World Cup final. As Robbie Savage pointed out on Twitter "surely coming 2nd is far better" for England, allowing them to swerve Colombia, France and Portugal among other potential opponents. It would pave the way to an England vs Brazil final that, according to Goldman Sachs forecasts, is...

Nobody bats an eyelid any more when various aquarium and zoo animals develop psychic abilities enabling them to predict World Cup scores. This year The Three Lions Pub in Bristol even has a regular dressed as an octopus predicting scores. But as it’s 2018, things have got a lot more sophisticated. A German team of machine learning researchers simulated 100,000 match eventualities to predict Germany to win the World Cup. But with Germany bowing out at the group stage of...