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FUTURE

How long before the majority of football fans support players rather than clubs?

As the game becomes increasingly global, fan culture may change drastically

RAGE!

I've ranked FIFA's 'The Best' nominees and I'm happy to argue with strangers about it

ELIMINATED

7 brilliant fantasy football players we were sorry to see exit the World Cup

Also in 2018 World Cup

McBUG BURGER

Here's Dream Team's Alternative World Cup Team of the Tournament

POGBOOM

Paul Pogba put to bed multiple myths during his epic World Cup final display

20 YEARS

Luka Modric put Nike's World Cup curse to bed when he picked up the Golden Ball

DRAWING BOARD

Both sides are copying Gareth Southgate's tactics in the World Cup final

DUBIOUS

France's penalty shows how flawed VAR is at the moment

ADVANTAGE?

Here's how the head-to-head duels in France v Croatia played out domestically

MOUSTACHE

France have the most bizarre pre-match lucky charm

ALLEZ LES BLEUS

How France went back to the past to secure a brighter future

SHEPHERD

Incredible footage has emerged of Luka Modric herding goats as a child

JOUE

How France's 'golden generation' compare to the squad that headed to the '98 World Cup

FASHION

Danny Rose's socks are the best thing about England's third-place play-off

LOOK AGAIN

Everyone missed the unbelievable save that cost England a World Cup final place

TORN

England fans are totally divided about the third-place play-off against Belgium

BRONZE

7 weird and wonderful moments you half-remember from World Cup third-place play-offs

GAME ON

We arranged a five-a-side game in Moscow to sort out Anglo-Russian relations

GONE

Who should replace Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in your fantasy football team?

FRAUDS

9 legends you have to disregard completely because they never won a World Cup

PATHETIC

Nicolas Otamendi goes full scum-bag AGAIN in Argentina's defeat to France

BATON PASSING

Lionel Messi fittingly outshone by his heir in last ever World Cup appearance

GENIUS

Why did it take Argentina so long to identify their most important player?

CATALYST

Everyone is in agreement about the reason why Argentina got out of the group

YOU OKAY?

Diego Maradona briefly becomes possessed while celebrating Lionel Messi's goal

SPOOKY

The symmetry between Lionel Messi's woes and Cristiano Ronaldo at the 2014 World Cup

BURDEN

Lionel Messi was born into the wrong era of football despite defining a generation

SCAPEGOAT

The Argentine press are absolutely tearing Lionel Messi to shreds today

CULL

Argentina players set to retire en masse after World Cup debacle

MISSING GOAT

Lionel Messi hasn't scored in over 600 minutes of World Cup football