World Cup 2026 - Posts

Full-Time: Spain Rule the World, France Owe 28 of You an Apology, and Jacky 2 Balloons Wins the Lot
That's it. That's the tournament. One hundred and three matches fed into the machine, 298 goals, twelve groups, one bracket, five Emergency Subs, and at the end of it all — as is tradition — one...
The Chalk Held, Colombia Didn't Read the Script, and Uncle Neil Won the Lot
The group stage is in the books. Seventy-two matches, twelve groups, forty-eight teams, and 53 of you staring at the same set of boxes, trying to guess the order it would all finish in. The machine...

Nobody Copied. But One of You Is Literally the Crowd.
A question landed at the Freemo Prediction Game HQ today: has anyone submitted the exact same set of predictions? With the final field locked at 53 completed entries, all staring at the same 12...

The Third-Place Lottery & Your Emergency Sub: The Two Things That'll Make or Break Your Bracket
Two rules in this game cause more head-scratching, swearing, and last-minute rethinks than anything else. Master them and you'll be sipping from the trophy. Ignore them and, well… Roy Meane will have...

10 Days to Go: A Whistle-Stop Tour of All 48 Teams
Right then. In 10 days — that's 20:00 (UK) on Thursday 11 June — the predictions slam shut, the Estadio Azteca roof comes off, and Mexico vs South Africa kicks off the biggest World Cup in history....