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Spain are World Cup champions for the second time after a suffocating 1-0 extra-time win over Argentina in New Jersey ended Lionel Messi’s last-dance fairytale and exposed the defending champions’ terminal decline. Ferran Torres, introduced as a second-half substitute, slammed home the 106th-minute winner from Pedro Porro’s deep cross and Nico Williams’ knockdown, finally punishing Emiliano Martínez’s 12 saves - a World Cup final record. For 90 minutes this was a war of attrition. Argentina barely turned up. Enzo Fernández’s second-yellow dismissal in the 83rd minute - for a cynical lunge on Pau Cubarsí - turned suffocation into stranglehold. When...