Video Of The Week: Greatest Goals Of The World Cup 1954-1978
This years Womens World Cup has caused one or two people to comment on the nature of the sixteen team tournament. The WWC is set to be expanded to twenty-four...
Category "World Cup"
The Twohundredpercent Vault: When The Two Germanies Collided, 1974
The Cold War spread insiduously into every aspect of life between the end of the second world war and the end of the 1980s, and sport was no exception to...
Money, Money, Money: FTA Television And The Cost Of The Champions League Final
It hasn’t been a very good couple of weeks for those that would seek to make us pay through the nose to watch football on the television. The Karen Murphy...
Friday essay: A World Cup debut for Qatar
For this week’s Picture That Dotmund Did, he’s worrying about history as usual. Qatar have just two more attempts to qualify for the World Cup before they become the first...
England’s World Cup Bid Failure: What Andrew Jennings Missed Out Upon
Ian Wright said in the Sun newspaper on December 3rd: “I would love to see some proper investigations into FIFA rather than this Jennings bloke shouting at people.” And Wright...
It’s Russia And Qatar, And The Scale Of The Defeat Means That There Is Shame In Losing
Perhaps the clue was in the faces of the England bidding team as they sat down to hear the announcement of the vote. David Dein and Prince William sat impassively,...
Panorama And The World Cup: The Press Speeks Its Branes
“Brainless, Betraying, Cretinous”, screamed The Sun this morning, and so it was that their much-anticipated slating of the BBC after last night’s Panorama began. It took a twin-headed approach –...
Panorama: The Right Programme At The Right Time
Have we completely missed the point? I watched investigative journalist Andrew Jennings’ Panorama programme on extensive bribe-taking among high-ranking FIFA executive committee members (unlike England 2018 bid chief Andy Anson,...
The BBC Will Be Right To Show The World Jack Warner On Panorama
A couple of years ago, it felt as if. in some ways, there was something inevitable about England winning the race to host the 2018 World Cup finals. Since then,...
FIFA, The FA and The British Press: No-one Really Wins The Moral Debate
“Please accept my resignation. I wouldn’t belong to a club that would accept me as a member”, said the telegram that Groucho Marx in his famous telegram to the Friar’s...
FIFA Get Set To Weed Out Corruption
Yeah. Right....
Video Of The Week: The Game Of Their Lives
Continuing on the political theme that we started last week with “Football & Fascism”, this week’s Video Of The Week continues on the same wavelength with another terrific BBC documentary,...
Tackling Racism Head On, The West Bromwich Albion Way
With just a couple of months left until the voting starts for the hosting of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals, it is perhaps unsurprising that a story should...
World Cup Technical Ecstasy
Now that you know what Martin Samuel and Alan Shearer think, you might not be interested in any more expert views on the recently-finished World Cup. But amid the small...
The Supplementarity Of “Anti-Football”
Amid much of the wailing about the negativity of the Dutch performance at this year’s World Cup final, some people have stuck their heads above the parapets and argued that...
All Hail Spain, Champions Of The World
Obviously, for a football snob like myself, even the best televised football is a poor substitute for watching a couple of Scottish lower league sides playing kick and rush on...
World Cup 2010: Why It’s Time To Reinvent Televised Football
Last night, Mark Murphy tore into the coverage of the 2010 World Cup in British television. This evening, in the second of our two-parter on British television at the World...
World Cup 2010: Punditry Unprofessionalism & Joke Journalism
For the TV punditry at this World Cup to be truly “remarkable” – and thereby worthy of an article – it would really have had to stink to the highest...
The 2010 World Cup Final: Netherlands 0-1 Spain
It’s a curious sight. The BBC’s panel is sitting, for the first time in this tournament suited and booted, in its base studio outside the Green Point Stadium in Cape...
World Cup 2010: The First Report On The Final
Without wishing to second-guess any of our regular readers, Dotmund figured that nobody on earth was going to watch the World Cup Final on ITV1. This is something of a...