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Ranked! The 21 biggest World Cup shocks EVER
By Nick Miller published
FIFA World Cup As Saudi Arabia humble Argentina, Nick Miller counts down the most jaw-dropping events from the world's greatest football tournament
Ranked! The 15 greatest World Cup goals you’ve probably forgotten
By Sean Cole published
FIFA World Cup The World Cup has produced so many memorable strikes that these jaw-dropping goals – taken from the last seven tournaments – don’t get the credit they deserve
USA vs Iran at France '98: the most politically charged game in World Cup history
By Neil Billingham published
World Cup 1998 Neil Billingham reflects on how one World Cup group game did more to repair relations between two nations than decades of diplomacy
Ray Houghton on Italia 90: "Jack Charlton joked that we'd get to meet the Pope. Suddenly we're at the Vatican..."
By Leo Moynihan published
World Cup 1990 "Suits? Ireland didn't have suits!" In an interview from the FourFourTwo archive, Ray Houghton recalls how Jack Charlton and the Ireland squad prepared for a World Cup quarter-final
Ranked! The 10 most incredible World Cup howlers
By Jon O'Brien published
FIFA World Cup On the 10th anniversary of Rob Green's slip up, we look back on a pair of Italian strikers, one soul diva, a crazy Colombian and certain English referee all 'star' in our countdown of the biggest World Cup blunders
World Cup icons: 17-year-old Pele makes Brazil's own psychologist look silly (1958)
By Paul Simpson published
World Cup 1958 On the anniversary of his first World Cup goal, we look back at how the Seleção's boy king conquered the world in Sweden – but only after some pre-tournament guff from within his own country's ranks
9 bold predictions we're making for World Cup 2018
By Kiyan Sobhani published
FIFA World Cup Prediction time! We can always just delete this post-tournament, right?
Boring, boring Brazil? Why the Seleção's 1994 winners were unloved back home
By Celso de Campos Jr last updated
World Cup 1994 After 24 years of glorious failures, Brazil finally captured a record fourth World Cup. So why was there so little love at home for the 1994 champions? Celso de Campos Jr explains...
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