All posts tagged "World Cup"
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7.8KTimelessAmarildo Tavares da Silveira: The man who replaced Pelé, and no one noticed
In 1962, The World Cup jamboree travelled to Chile on the west coast of South America, that narrow strip of a country...
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5.1KTimelessThe Invincibles vs The Invincibles: Hungary and Uruguay in the 1954 World Cup
The history of the World Cup is replete with tales of epic encounters. In 1950, Uruguay drove an ice-cold dagger into the...
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5.8KTimelessJosef Masopust: A golden career and 100 seconds of immortality
Santiago, the capital of Chile, was enjoying a balmy summer afternoon on 17 June 1962. The hot sun beat down, precluding almost...
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3.4KTimelessHow cruel fate denied Robert Jonquet a place among the all-time greats
The history of football in the latter years of the 1950s and the early ones of the following decade is dominated by...
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3.6KPOVCould Arjen Robben get one last shot with Netherlands at Euro 2020?
In October 2017, Arjen Robben decided to retire from international football after his country missed out again on a second consecutive major...
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31.1KTimelessTwo Stripes: How sponsorship conflict made Johan Cruyff play the 1974 World Cup with a two striped Adidas kit
Hendrik Johannes Cruijff is one name that reverberates around the annals of football history. Nothing short of a footballing powerhouse, Cruyff has...
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2.7KPOVRoad to Nowhere: Why success at U17 World Cup means so little
There was surprise among the management team at Liverpool FC when Manchester United agreed to pay £12.24 million for Cristiano Ronaldo in...
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2.0KTimelessSeven thousand miles, twelve yards and one small step
On 16 November 2005, in Sydney’s Telstra Stadium, John Aloisi, late of Coventry City and Portsmouth, among many other clubs, but at...
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2.3KSpecialsBook Review: Cheers, Tears and Jeers – A History of England and the World Cup
It takes a brave and perhaps ever-so-slightly masochistic person to take on a history of England and the World Cup. Gary Thacker...
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17.0KTimelessClive Thomas and “the most controversial decision that any referee has ever made”
Back in 1981, Tottenham and Wolverhampton Wanderers played an FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough. It was a game that I happened to...
