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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

Back of the Net's alternative Mexico '86: half-hearted waves, moral victories and sweaty delirium
By Paul Watson last updated
World Cup 1986 A sideways glance of the tournament owned by El Diego, brought to you by Back of the Net

World Cup icons: Geoff Hurst takes the opportunity of a lifetime (1966)
By Steve Morgan published
World Cup 1966 England's enduring triumph might have been different had it not been for an untimely injury to Jimmy Greaves. Steve Morgan remembers Ramsey's immortals of '66

Why World Cup 1990 was the tournament of the great goalkeeper
By Nick Moore last updated
World Cup 1990 Illgner, Goycochea, Conejo, Shilton: the home of defensive football became the perfect stage for the globe's top shot-stoppers
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