Jude Bellingham excels in parallel World Cup but cannot win trophy alone | World Cup 2026

Jude against the sun. For much of this game there was a feeling of three separate entities struggling to assert their will in the heavy air of Miami Gardens. First, Norway, in their first World Cup quarter-final, who played with heart, skill and patience, and were by any Jude-free metric probably the better team.

Alongside this, forcing itself centre stage, was the July Florida heat, the kind…