It’s the World Cup. Let’s follow Canada, Mexico, Scotland and Japan.
Group A
Mexico 2 – 0 South Africa (June 11)
Video: How a women from Veracruz won Mexico’s top World Cup ticket.
Group B
Canada 1 – 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina (June 12)
Video: I attended Canada’s last match before the World Cup.
Group C
Haiti vs Scotland (June 13)
Video: Ewen McGregor introduces the Scotland squad. (And takes back everything he said about Scotland in Trainspotting.)
Group F
Netherlands vs Japan (June 14)
Video: Can the Japanese national team reach the quarterfinals?
Other matches:
Forge 1 – 0 HFX Wanderers (June 10)
Tiger-Cats 37 – 27 Blue Bombers (June 11)
Halifax Tides vs Calgary Wild
Scrosoppi vs Vaughan Azzurri
Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth vs Hokushukai Iwamizawa (tomorrow)
Mito HollyHock vs Koji All-Stars (Koji Homma tribute match) (tomorrow)
Video: Canada is essentially three mining companies in a trenchcoat.
Mortonalia: The club has announced it will have a smaller player budget this year. Still, they’ve signed midfielder Grant Savoury, formerly of Celtic B, Edinburgh City, Peterhead and Queen’s Park.
1942 Summer Cup, R2, leg 1:
1942/6/13 Hibs 8 – 2 Third Lanark
1942/6/13 Albion Rovers 3 – 0 Hearts
1942/6/13 Celtic 1 – 2 Motherwell
1942/6/13 Falkirk 1 – 0 Rangers
Canada in the 1986 World Cup:
1986/6/1 Canada 0 – 1 France
1986/6/6 Hungary 2 – 0 Canada
1986/6/9 Soviet Unon 2 – 0 Canada
Canada in the 2022 World Cup:
2022/11/23 Belgium 1 – 0 Canada
2022/11/27 Croatia 4 – 1 Canada
2022/12/1 Canada 1 – 2 Morocco
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