For England supporters, Wednesday night was painful.
After taking the lead against Argentina, hopes of reaching another World Cup final were alive. But Lionel Messi reminded us, yet again, why he is one of football's greatest players. As former England goalkeeper Joe Hart put it, England "locked the door – they just forgot that Messi carries a skeleton key”.
Defeat hurts. It always does.
Do today's children lack embodied childhood experiences?
When I was a boy growing up in Wales, World Cups arrived with a particular smell: the smell of a …