Ewan Murray on the UEFA Cup Final.

Graham Spiers on Glasgow’s preparations for the Final.

Guillem Balague says that Espanyol is looking to exorcise bad memories from nearly two decades ago.

Roddy Forsyth gives Sevilla the edge.

Glenn Gibbons expects the two Spanish teams to put on a great show.

Prediction (or in the case of the number of  goals scored it is more a hope) – Sevilla 2-3 Espanyol, maybe even in extra time.

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.