On 16 November 2005, in Sydney’s Telstra Stadium, John Aloisi, late of Coventry City and Portsmouth, among many other clubs, but at...
It takes a brave and perhaps ever-so-slightly masochistic person to take on a history of England and the World Cup. Gary Thacker...
Back in 1981, Tottenham and Wolverhampton Wanderers played an FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough. It was a game that I happened to...
On 23 January 1939, Gustav Hartman knocked on the door of his friend’s flat in Vienna. By almost any definition, at the...
Northern Ireland enjoyed their first taste of a tournament final in a generation, back in 2016 when they reached the last 16...
Considered by many pundits not only to be the best player in the world, Lionel Messi is also widely touted as the...
Although the 1974 World Cup will be remembered for West Germany lifting the trophy that anointed them champions of the world, it...
When the thought of the dirtiest matches in World Cup history comes to mind, attention may be turned to the England vs...
On the eve of the 2007 Asian Cup, Iraq was a nation in disarray. A country that had been devastated by bombings...
When the draw for the 2014 World Cup groups was made on 6 December 2013 at the Costa do Sauípe resort in...