World Cup Wonderland

FIFA World Cup As Saudi Arabia humble Argentina, Nick Miller counts down the most jaw-dropping events from the world's greatest football tournament

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

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 1986 It's been 16 years since Scotland graced a major international tournament, but there was a time the Tartan Army were regular globe-trotters. Yet even in those relative glory days, things didn't always go to plan. Sam Rowe explains...

Back of the Net Low scoring, cynicism, red cards and endless penalty shootouts mean Italia '90 is considered by most people to be the worst World Cup ever. Which just goes to show that most people are idiots...

World Cup 1982 Platini, Socrates and Zoff all rocked Spain in '82 - but who was the No.1 performer? Jonathan Wilson runs through the stars that made the tournament so memorable

World Cup 2018 From the 'Iranian Ronaldo' to the flying Peruvian wing-back who helped upset Brazil, Michael Yokhin picks out these relatively low-profile talents who could become superstars by the end of Russia 2018

FIFA World Cup The finest players in the world sometimes don’t quite manage to produce their best on the biggest stage of all. Others seem fired up by the global attention, playing in ways they never could for their club. Here are 25 of the tournament greats...

World Cup Wonderland It's just a number, right? Barney Lane on the dozen old-timers who'll be looking to prove they still have plenty to offer in Russia this summer