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.

As the round of 16 it is quite possible that the winner of the Golden Shoe - the tournament top scorer - has not hit the mark yet.

Here are the current scoring leaders and here is a list of past winners back to 1966 and in what game they broke their duck.

2002 Ronaldo (8 goals) 1^st game vs. Turkey 1998 #### (6) 1^st vs. Jamaica

1994 Salenko (6) 2^nd game vs. Sweden and Stoitchkov (6) 2^nd game vs. Greece

1990 Schillachi (6) 1^st game vs. Austria

1986 Lineker (6) 3^rd game vs. Poland

1982 Rossi (6) 5^th game vs. Brazil

1978 Kempes (6) 4^th game vs. Poland

1974 Lato (7) 1^st game vs. Argentina

1970 Muller (10) 1^st game vs. Morocco  

1966 Eusebio (9) 2^nd game vs. Bulgaria

You can see from the list of previous winners that getting to the semi-final stage and ensuring the maximum number of games appears to be important. Only Salenko (5 goals in one game against Cameroon distorts his stats) and Gary Lineker in 1986 fail to fit the profile.

Of the current top 20, nine players have packed their bags and gone home.

 However, I can't see anyone ever beating Just Fontaine's 1958 record of 13 goals at a single World Cup Final.

 Of course after tomorrows games we may be looking at Ronaldo as being the single greatest goal scorer of all time at the World Cup finals.

 Who tickles your fancy?