John Morrison

It is a World Cup summer, and you can feel it in both of these countries: England and Italy are two of the most football-obsessed nations on earth, and with the 2026 tournament unfolding across the USA, Canada and Mexico, every pub in Manchester and every piazza in Naples has a screen glowing late into […]

It’s World Cup summer, and with the 2026 tournament sprawled across the USA, Canada, and Mexico, two of the countries watching most obsessively from afar are England and Germany, nations where football sits somewhere between pastime and religion. But this isn’t a football article. It’s a travel one, because sooner or later everyone planning a

It has been quite a summer to be a football-obsessed nation. With the 2026 World Cup unfolding across the USA, Canada, and Mexico, both England and France have spent the past few weeks glued to screens, arguing in pubs and cafes, and reminding everyone that nobody takes this sport more personally than they do. But

It is July 2026, and the world has spent a month glued to the World Cup across the USA, Canada and Mexico, which means football’s two great obsessions, Brazil and Spain, have been on everyone’s lips all summer. That is where the football talk ends, though, because this is a travel comparison, and as places

It’s July 2026, and the World Cup is in full swing across the USA, Canada, and Mexico — which means one of today’s contenders is literally hosting the party, while the other, Brazil, remains the only nation to have lifted the trophy five times. Football pride is running hot in both countries this month, but