The best articles about the World Cup

1954 World Cup Final: It was weather to make heroes. And Friedrich ‘Fritz’ Walter loved such bad weather.

It was his only mistake at the entire World Cup in South Korea: can the flawless Oliver Kahn cope with this?

The goal that wasn’t a goal. Oskar Beck tells the story of how Helmut Haller stole the Wembley ball and sold it back to the English.

Football was never more wonderful and terrible than the match of the century at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.

At the 1974 World Cup, a ticket for the final still cost 15DM.