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The Football Weekly podcast is here. Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, John Brewin and Nicky Bandini for Spain’s late win over Belgium, an England v Norway preview and much (a reasonable amount at least) more.

Norway fans enjoying the action at the World Cup.

Supporters of Morocco gather on Edgware Road in London during the France v Morocco World Cup quarter-final.

And I appreciate all this has been forgotten because England won but Harry Kane should have been awarded a first-half penalty. When a goalkeeper slides and does not get the ball, of course the forward is going to take the contact. Kane is just being punished for being as clever as the officials desire.

Hayden Hackney signs for Everton.

Understandably playing second fiddle, the Under-19s European Championships are taking place in Wales. The Germany coach Christian Worns has been kitted out in a retro tracksuit and it is a bold statement. It’s not for me but I am Britain’s least fashionable man. On the upside, Germany did win 4-0 against Wales on Wednesday.

BREAKING: Emirates customers have now made over 1 million @Starlink Wi-Fi connections in just 7 months. Passengers have already used more than 1 petabyte of data, with 60+ Starlink-equipped flights flying every day.

Luis Suárez breaks Ghanaian hearts.

@elonmusk @beffjezos How are you celebrating your day ?

To be clear, I’m not saying the Grok v9 foundation model will be mind-blowingly better than anything, but it will be a solid workhorse in the same league as Opus. And the SpaceXAI cadence of model and harness improvement is speeding up tremendously, particularly due to a few dozen of the top Starlink/Starship engineers shifting a much of their time to AI. Worth noting that the v8 foundation (Grok 4.3) model is a 0.5T model that finished training all the way back in December and has many fundamental flaws, so Grok 4.5 will feel like a gigantic upgrade!

Looks like Grok is back on the menu

Love of a Mom

@mayemusk @elonmusk Guess the boy

Happy birthday to my wonderful son. @elonmusk has given me 55 years of joy. It’s so much fun to celebrate with family and friends. His cake is a rocket and a moon base 🎂🎂🎉

@mayemusk @elonmusk Happy birthday my love

Can anyone guess the boy in the picture? Hint 55 years

My TV feed has just shown a selection of the best goals so far. I think Promise David’s for Canada against Switzerland might be my aesthetic favourite – but there are loads I’d pick above it once factoring in importance.

In Tuchel’s defence, I think he’s picked a squad he thinks is best-placed to beat the best teams – by running and powering them off the pitch – but even within that, you need options and variety. Otherwise, teams know exactly how to prepare for you and you’re essentially saying if things go badly – they suss how to handle the formation, say – the problem is still the players, who are replaced like for like.

Canada, meanwhile, will look to dominate in wide areas, their full-backs supporting the wide midfielders and helping serve the front two. Marking two strikers a man each – is a lot harder for centre-backs than sharing one between them, and I expect that to be the difference in this match.

On UK TV, they’ve been talking about England, noting that DR Congo play a low block. A bit of a problem if your manager has picked a team full of big-space players and seems strangely reticent to use his only real small-space expert. I’m not surprised Thomas Tuchel isn’t into Kobbie Mainoo – he’s picked a squad big on physicality and low on craft – but why take him if you’d rather play Jordan Henderson?

Jesse Marsch makes four changes to the side that lost to Switzerland. At centre-back, Moïse Bombito replaces Luc De Fougerolles; in midfield, Stephen Eustaquio is in for Mathieu Choinière; on the left, it’s Tani Oluwaseyi not Ali Ahmed; and up front, Liam Millar is preferred to Cyle Larin.

Oh my goodness. Nothing to do with football, but everything to do with humanity: Ben Stokes, what a man. If you’re near a telly with Sky, get it on – it’s montage time.

A Canada-related question for you: yesterday, my wife and I were discussing Celine Dion and whether she’s an icon; my wife reckoned yes, I leaned no. So went to the OED, which says: “a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or worthy of veneration.” I guess I need the first arm as well as the first, or we’re letting too many into the category, and I’m not sure she satisfies it; I demand transcendence!