Andrew Warshaw has an article on Just Fontaine who scored 13 goals at the 1958 World Cup.
Ewan Murray talks to ex-Scottish international and scorer of one of football's great World Cup goals Archie Gemmill. Gemmill sees parallels with Scotland's 1978 disaster and England's recent endeavour.
Writers from the Observer combine to produce their best and worst of the 2006 World Cup.
“United we stand, divided we fall” – England players begin to rip into Sven.
Denis Campbell writes about the task South Africa faces in meeting the standards set by Germany.
Gabriele Marcotti looks at one of the stories that will dominate soccer post-World Cup.
Maybe all these English crybaby-players should stick to writing. It can't be any worse than the soccer they'd played.
Eriksson didn't shine true, but the rest of the team was no better. And while this tide of football literature waits to be published and read (maybe), Sven shall have the last laugh all the way to the bank. And that's because, if Sven proved to be an inept coach, then sure as hell nobody seemed to notice it prior to the "Swedish" draw...
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