World Cup Wonderland

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

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

World Cup 1998 After watching the France 98 World Cup Final on Saturday afternoon, we dug into the archive to uncover Jonathan Wilson's look back at the legends who lit up the tournament

World Cup 1998 In anticipation of our World Cup France 98 final watchalong on Saturday at 3pm, our documentary recalls what happened to Ronaldo before that match - and we speak to the man himself about a bizarre turn of events

World Cup 1998 Ahead of FFT's France 98 World Cup Final watchalong this Saturday, we remember Zinedine Zidane's extraordinary contributions in that tournament, and French society's reaction to the victory

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

World Cup 1994 FourFourTwo runs down the sensational schemers, stoppers and strikers of a star-studded World Cup...

World Cup 1994 Nick Moore revels in the finest strikes of the 1994 World Cup; featuring a mad-dashing Saudi Arabian, El Diego (well, duh) and a Nigerian crawling like a dog

World Cup 1994 Predicted as the tournament's dark horse, Colombia wilted under the weight of expectation and the lingering threat of Cartel retribution.

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