My favourite game: Argentina v Iran, 2014 World Cup
My dad and I went from despair and frustration to pandemonium after Lionel Messi struck in style at the death
July 2018
Which is the best World Cup ever? Rating contenders from 1954 to 2014
Before things kicked off in Russia we asked you to reminisce about your favourite World Cups. You did not disappoint
June 2018
Germany’s early demise eases Brazil supporters’ recurring nightmare
‘On the pitch there was a divide’: tales behind England’s World Cup failures
May 2018
World Cup stunning moments
World Cup stunning moments: the 1966 World Cup
Random tales from the 1966 tournament that have absolutely nothing to do with Azerbaijani linesmen, Kenneth Wolstenholme or Pickles the Dog
World Cup stunning moments
World Cup stunning moments: Italy shocked by South Korea in 2002
The Azzurri’s controversial second-round defeat in Daejeon was just the start of a barely believable series of events
World Cup stunning moments
World Cup stunning moments: the Miracle of Bern
Hungary were unbeaten in four years. West Germany had no chance. Yet in the 1954 final the underdogs produced one of the great World Cup shocks
April 2018
World Cup stunning moments
World Cup stunning moments: Haiti shock Dino Zoff's Italy
World Cup stunning moments
World Cup stunning moments: Dennis Bergkamp's wonder goal
World Cup stunning moments
World Cup stunning moments: Mussolini's blackshirts' 1938 win
World Cup stunning moments
World Cup stunning moments: Andrés Escobar's deadly own goal
March 2018
World Cup stunning moments
World Cup stunning moments: Cameroon shock Argentina in 1990
Simon Burnton: François Omam-Biyik’s goal and an unheralded team of journeymen defeated Diego Maradona’s world champions in Italy
November 2017
Guardian Sport Network
The strange history of World Cup draws: dropouts, closed cages and dresses
Dividing teams into groups for a football tournament should be easy but nothing is ever simple when Fifa is in charge
June 2017
Concussion protocols at 2014 World Cup failed Fifa standards, study finds
Sportblog
Latest Russia allegations raise big questions for Fifa – and football
Sean Ingle
May 2017
Englische Woche
Farewell Philipp Lahm, the man who won it all and left as a champion
Philipp Lahm has won eight Bundesliga titles, six German cups, the Champions League and the World Cup. Now he is going out at the top
April 2017
Stadium deals, corruption and bribery: the questions at the heart of Brazil’s Olympic and World Cup ‘miracle’
The two mega-events were framed as a reason for Brazilians to be proud; instead a supreme court investigation keeps unearthing unsavoury allegations
November 2016
Digested read
Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund – digested read
John Crace delivers a highlights package from the novelist’s correspondence with a writer friend during the 2014 World Cup
June 2016
England under Roy Hodgson – in pictures
From his appointment in 2012, through three international tournaments ending with the humiliating defeat to Iceland at Euro 2016, we take a look back at Roy Hodgson’s England reign
May 2016
Book of the day
Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City by Luiz Eduardo Soares – review
This political history of Rio reveals a city still in the grip of its violent past
