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Gary Lineker on Mexico '86: "I think the linesman saw the Hand of God and bottled it"
By FourFourTwo Staff last updated
World Cup 1986 On this day in 1986, England's second-highest goalscorer notched a vital hat-trick against Poland which sent the Three Lions through to the last 16. Here he regales the perils of playing in intense heat, Maradona's memorable brace... and his dad's success at the bookies
World Cup 2006: When Germany learned to love its national team – and each other
By Uli Hesse last updated
World Cup 2006 Uli Hesse recalls what was once the Germans' finest hour of the 21st century – and they didn't even win anything
Ranked! The 10 best goals of Italia '90
By Nick Moore last updated
World Cup 1990 We round up the tournament's greatest net-ripplers: starring Milla, Platt, Caniggia and lots, lots more...
Ranked! The best 10 Players of Mexico '86
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World Cup 1986 World Cup 86 was characterised by prolific goalscorers, creative genius, and guile aplenty. There was a handy Argentine fellow, too. Diego something or other…
The lost brilliance of Yugoslavia at Italia '90: "The team was far better than the country"
By FourFourTwo Staff last updated
World Cup 1990 Their brilliant, technical football illuminated the 1990 World Cup, but things at home were getting much darker
82: New Zealand's All Whites win hearts and minds - just not any points
By Neil Billingham last updated
FIFA World Cup New Zealand's famously resolute showing in South Africa in 2010 wasn't the first time the All Whites have made friends and influenced people at the world's biggest sporting event, as Neil Billingham explains...
How Beckham banished the ghosts of '98 – and saved my birthday
By David Hall last updated
World Cup 2002 Former FourFourTwo editor David Hall recalls an emotional pilgrimage to the Sapporo Dome on June 7, 2002
10 players who became overnight superstars at the World Cup
By Jon Spurling published
FIFA World Cup A Haitian hero, an unlikely Italian and a teenage Irishman going one better than Pele - all this and more on Jon Spurling’s list of players whose World Cup displays made them stars
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