Shearer: England can finally exorcise Argentina ghosts in World Cup semi

Twenty-eight years after a penalty shootout in Saint-Étienne left a generation of English footballers haunted, Alan Shearer looks toward Atlanta and sees not merely a semi-final but a reckoning with history. The wounds of 1998 — Beckham's red card, a disallowed goal, the long walk away from what might have been — have never fully healed, and Shearer knows that sport rarely offers such clean opportunities for redemption. Yet he believes this England squad, led by Kane and Bellingham, carries the quality and the moment to do what his generation could not: reach the final, and silence three decad