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 [0 – 1] Scotland (June 13)
Video: Ewen McGregor introduces the Scotland squad. (And takes back everything he said about Scotland in Trainspotting.)

Group F
Netherlands [2 – 2] 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 [2 – 0] Calgary Wild [Goals by Benati and Miller.]
Scrosoppi vs Vaughan Azzurri (moved to August 11)
Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth [6 – 0] Hokushukai Iwamizawa (tomorrow)
Mito HollyHock [6 – 8] 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. They’ve signed midfielder Grant Savoury, formerly of Celtic B, Edinburgh City, Peterhead and Queen’s Park. [Cameron Blues has left the club. He was the last remaining Morton player who was signed before the pandemic.]

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