Every World Cup guarantees thrilling games, brilliant goals and the presence of the best players on the planet. But also, ...

The World Cup kicks off this week and Gillette Stadium is going to see plenty of star power in the coming days.

Headbutts, spitting, diving, biting, crying, cheating and thieving all feature in the wild history of football's biggest ...

BBC Sport explores whether spying is as regular an occurrence in Germany as Southampton boss Tonda Eckert claims.

Get free access to the most comprehensive World Cup coverage in The Athletic app. A thousand matches. Many of them life-changing, several history-changing. All of them part of the story. After 96 ...

Geoff Hurst’s hat-trick and a controversial decision by an Azerbaijani linesman sealed English football’s greatest moment, ...

Tom Atcheson scored an early opener and was later sent off midway through the second-half as Michael O’Neill’s Northern ...

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FIFA have confirmed a World Cup grappling clampdown that will see attackers penalised for fouls BEFORE a set-piece is ...

Video assistant referees (VAR) will have new powers to intervene at this summer's World Cup if fouls are committed ...

Italy 1990 remains one of the most memorable World Cups in history, both for its lack of goals and the defensive style that ...

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