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Making a Kylian CHEERS erupted from Calais to Cannes when Kylian Mbappé, a 19-year-old striker, thumped in France’s fourth goal in the World Cup final on July 15th. Among the smuggest onlookers were the accountants at Paris Saint-Germain, Mr Mbappé’s club. He was already a prized asset before the tournament, having broken the record for […]
Rescuers in Thailand have kicked off an operation to pull 12 members of a junior football team and their coach from a flooded cave that they’ve been in for over two weeks, the head of the rescue mission has announced. “Today we are at peak readiness,” the lead rescuer said as he announced the start […]
As the FIFA World Cup yielded many apparent divine interventions, a real-world miracle has happened in Thailand, when all players in a children’s squad and their coach, who had spent nine days in a flooded cave, were found alive. The sudden and almost traceless disappearance of the Wild Boar football team in northern Thailand on […]
REX/Shutterstock Carolyn Radford, CEO of Mansfield Town Football Club As one of only a handful of female CEOs in professional football I know how hard it can be to make a name for yourself in an industry that’s rife with outdated attitudes. When I took the job at Mansfield Town FC seven years ago I […]
Side-by-side Joachim Loew and Angela Merkel have overseen an era of German political stability and sporting success. Inscrutable heads of institutions that have dominated Europe and beyond. And both could soon be out of a job. An early World Cup exit for Die Mannschaft, and the spectre of political defeat for Merkel in Berlin, Bavaria […]
The Moscow fan area set up in the iconic Vorobyovy Gory (Sparrow Hills) for the World Cup has been dubbed the “flirt-zone” with both Russian and foreign fans vying for each others’ attention. Dating apps have seen a significant surge in users since the tournament kicked off in the Russian capital last week.Tinder experienced a […]
One of the English fans that was filmed giving Nazi salutes and singing a Hitler song in a bar in the Russian city of Volgograd, the site of a major WWII battle, has been banned from attending games for five years by a UK court. British police and the Football Association launched a joint investigation […]
A number of football fans visiting Russia have fallen victim to some confusing Russian place names, missing matches after they arrived at the wrong destination having confused the names of local cities. Read more A couple from Switzerland, Adrian and Gabrielle Zellweger, who had arrived in Russia to back their team risked spending the night […]
1. The Jules Rimet Trophy for the World Cup is named after the Frenchman who was President of FIFA from 1921-1954. 2. Jules Rimet served as an officer in the French Army during the First World War and was awarded a Croix de Guerre. 3. The trophy was stolen in London in the run-up to […]
REUTERS / Staff Footage has emerged of the taxi driver who crashed into a crowd of pedestrians in Moscow being chased from the scene. The driver said he fled the scene because he was worried onlookers would try and kill him. The man said he had been at the wheel for 20 hours before the […]
