This third-place game has a dirty little secret: It's the most entertaining game, by far, in the entire World Cup. Nobody parks the bus. Nobody plays scared. Two exhausted, heartbroken teams show up, shrug and just play. Saturday in Miami gave us a spectacle for the ages. England beat France, 6-4, in a 10-goal circus that felt less like a bronze-medal match and more like a pickup run where both teams forgot defense was legal. And that's precisely why it happened: With nothing real at stake, the handbrakes came off. Thomas Tuchel spent the week getting torched for retreating into a shell agains...
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