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Football Daily | Argentina advance. But for Cape Verde, they’ll always have for ever

<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/info/2022/nov/14/football-daily-email-sign-up"><strong>Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!</strong></a></p><p>They couldn’t, could they? They almost did. Fair play, Gianni Infantino, adding an extra knockout round has proved a worthy addition to the Geopolitics World Cup. Sure, the group stage occasionally dragged like a wet Sunday in February, with attendant Scottish and South Korean tears, and Uruguayan rage, but jeopardy is king content. And “the 32” signed off with an all-time classic that went close to delivering <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/04/argentina-cape-verde-world-cup-2026-last-32-match-report">the greatest shock of all shocks</a>.</p><p>Have to say I just unsubscribed from Football Daily because of the relentless negativity during the GWC, both from the writers and the letters that are being published. Normally I enjoy a bit of snark but, my goodness, this seven-day-a-week version of the email is on another level. What a shame” – Jeff Round.</p><p>In honour of Gianni Infantino, I have decided to introduce my own hydration breaks when reading Football Daily. Following several cans of Tin each day, it almost becomes funny” – Martyn Shapter.</p><p>Re: yesterday’s News, Bits and Bobs (full email edition). Education minister Jacqui Smith may have been planning a disco nap before watching England, but her ex-husband is more famously <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/mar/30/jacqui-smith-expenses-tv-pornography">a fan of jazz</a>” – David Maddock.</p><p>Re: Rick Costigan asking about giving the USA USA USA their exclamation marks and dropping the A (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/03/football-daily-gwc-cristiano-ronaldo-portugal">yesterday’s Football Daily letters</a>). Does Rick know that their fans are already supporting his campaign? Having recently returned from Boston, Miami and Atlanta (final one was a stop-off on the way home to see Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s birth place and resting place), the place was full of USA USA USA fans holding up signs and wearing T-shirts saying ‘Why not US?’. Does this count as the first mass movement in support of a letter to the Football Daily email?” – James Thomson.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/04/football-daily-email-gwc-cape-verde-argentina">Continue reading...</a>