Football is a game of momentum, but momentum is not some invisible force that floats above the field. It lives inside people. It moves through exhausted lungs, anxious hands, and the quiet hope that builds on a sideline when a team that everyone counted out begins to believe again. The Dallas Cowboys felt every bit of that momentum in Brazil, thousands of miles from home, in a game that had no business being as memorable as it was. They had struggled, stumbled, and then fought their way back into a wild contest against the Baltimore Ravens. They were not just…

The bitter rivalry between world football’s governing body and its European counterpart has erupted into open legal warfare, with Fifa accusing Uefa of running a “misinformation campaign” designed to smear its president, Gianni Infantino, and tilt the upcoming presidential election. The clash, which has moved from the boardroom to a federal courtroom in Florida, revolves around a now-abandoned plan to spin off World Cup commercial rights into a private subsidiary named Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE). In a strongly worded court filing, Fifa dismissed Uefa’s legal manoeuvring as baseless harassment, insisting that Infantino did nothing wrong and that the proposal was…