THE 1966 World Cup Final did not really happen as far as Matt Eastley was concerned. He was three months old when Bobby Moore hoisted the Jules Rimet trophy aloft and only had dull anecdotes from his dad and big brother, who watched it on TV, to go on. England beating West Germany 4-2 after […]
ENGLAND will today formally launch its bid to host the 2021 Rugby League World Cup. And a new national centre for the sport will be set up with the aim of boosting the chances of winning the tournament and developing future talent. But South Africa and the USA are also expected to attempt to land […]
IT WAS the day we saw the sublime and the revolting from football’s most controversial player ever. June 22, 1986. Thirty years on from England’s infamous World Cup quarter-final defeat to Argentina, where Diego Maradona took centre stage. As well as a football rivalry — which had been spawned 20 years earlier — this clash came […]
An Iranian footballer football was suspended for six months after wearing what have been liked to SpongeBob SquarePants trousers. A picture appeared online of goalkeeper, Sosha Makani, in the legwear alongside a fan in a Real Madrid shirt, before a match for his club side, Persepolis. And, according to the Iranian football federation’s morality committee, […]
THE SHIRT worn by Sir Geoff Hurst in the 1966 World Cup final is expected to fetch £500,000 at auction. The England hero remains the only man to have bagged a hat-trick in a final and his 18th, 101st and 120th-minute goals meant Alf Ramsey’s men beat West Germany 4-2 at Wembley. Now, almost 50 […]