FourFourTwo's Guide to the World Cup is here

In it, you’ll find answers to all your World Cup questions and many more that you may not even have known needed tackling...

  • How will Brazil cope on home turf?
  • What’s the best that England can hope for?
  • Who are the rising stars who’ll be household names by mid-July?
  • Why does Croatia skipper Dario Srna have a tattoo of a female deer?
  • Who is most likely to end the World Cup in a clinch with Madonna?
  • Who’s going to sport the tournament’s bushiest beard?

We’ve also got in-depth guides to all 32 teams, plus the venues, the history, the 10 players to watch and 2014’s football innovations. 

It’s all you need to become a font of all World Cup knowledge/crashing World Cup bore (we can give you facts, folks, but not personality).

Enjoy it now at TheGuide.FourFourTwo.com.

Joe Brewin

Joe was the Deputy Editor at FourFourTwo until 2022, having risen through the FFT academy and been on the brand since 2013 in various capacities. 

By weekend and frustrating midweek night he is a Leicester City fan, and in 2020 co-wrote the autobiography of former Foxes winger Matt Piper – subsequently listed for both the Telegraph and William Hill Sports Book of the Year awards.