Belgium 3-2 Senegal (aet): World Cup last 32 – live reaction

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“Well, I’m going to come right out and say that I’ve never heard of Sparklehorse,” says Charles Antaki. “There; that’s me disqualified as an aging hipster, or a hipster of any variety. So I looked them up, and there’s a couple of videos online which feature faux-naif montages (at least I assume they are faux), one of them unfortunately featuring many shots of a man in clown make-up wearing a Stetson. Anyway: the music is rather beguiling, in a rather melancholy way. Good for the calm-down after the England excitement and associated hoo-hah.”

If you’re calling me a hipster, Charles, your vocabulary is nowhere near as precise as I thought. As for Sparklehorse, there’s a discordant beauty to his music that I adore. Not to everyone’s taste though.

Last 16 USA/Bosnia and Herzegovina

Quarter-final Spain/Austria/Portugal/Croatia

Semi-final Paraguay/France/Canada/Morocco

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