Bronze final? How about World Cup’s most pointless match? Why Fifa should bin off third-place play-off
Three days after the biggest loss of their careers, England’s squad have to go again and take on Kylian Mbappe’s France on Saturday in Miami. And Kieran Jackson argues: who even cares?
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