WATCHALONGWatch the full France 98 World Cup final with us at 3pmSaturday, March 21 right hereEightminutes on the clock, 27 namesto guess - that's 11 for each side, two substitutes for Brazil and three for France.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your friends - especially if they're gamers!NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name the top 20 rated players from every FIFA game in the last decade?FIFA 21 NEWSWhat we know so far and what changes we expect for the next game France 98. The World Cup of David Beckham's sending off.ThatDennis Bergkamp goal. Of Davor Suker (who?) winning the Golden Boot.The 90s were a golden age of football. Where devils and geniuses played side by side, a time before xG,...
In short: Come back here at 3pm on Saturday, March 21 to watch the 1998 World Cup Finalin full, and tweet along using the hashtag #SaturdayFFTSaturday, 3pm is an important cultural touchstone. We don’t need to explain it. You know immediately what it is, and what it means.It doesn’t matter what your routine in the hours building up to 3 o’clock is: whether you drive, take the train, busor walk, or stagger from the pub. The only thing that matters is where you are at 3pm, when thatwhistle goes. For hundreds of thousands of people in this country, every single Saturday, that moment is exactly the same.For the next few weeks, and probably months, we’ve lost that.Because of the COVID-19...
The most famous meeting between Argentina and Uruguay remains the final of the inaugural World Cup in 1930. In Montevideo, in front of 70,000 supporters, Uruguay reversed a 2-1 half-time deficit to win the game 4-2, lifting what would later, in 1946, become known as the Jules Rimet trophy.It was an occasion full of sub-plots and characters. Belgian referee Jean Langenus officiated ‘skilfully’ according to FIFA’s official history, and was ‘unfazed by the masses’ as he controlled the game in his cap and baggy trousers. One of his assistants, Ulises Saucedo, had actually coached Bolivia through the tournament alongside his own refereeing duties, before finding the time to run the line in the final.On the pitch, Luis Monti – the...
With the football season now suspended until the end of April at least and everyone either self-isolating or social distancing due to coronavirus, our football fix will haveto come fromfilms anddocumentaries.And Netflix has given us an idea of what’s to come in that department after dropping the trailer for the second series of ‘Sunderland ‘Till I Die’ which will be shown on April 1. Giving another insightful behind-the-scenes view of how a topsy-turvy professional football club works, this promises to be a very good watch.Let’s be fair, the show’s first season wasn’t a particularly great viewing for Sunderland fans, as it documented the club plummeting down the Championship table andrelegation to the third-tier during the 2017/18 season.But the newseriesmakes forslightlymore...
ALSO READNo Premier League until May – how COVID-19 coronavirus is affecting football: Premier League, Champions League, EFL and UEFA updatesProfessional football in England will not resume until April 30 at the earliest because of the coronavirus pandemic.There remains a commitment to complete the 2019/20 season, but with that now due to finish extremely late – and UEFA committed to holding the European Championship in June 2021 – it may mean adjustments are needed to the 2020/21 club fixture list.Here are some suggestions for how next season could be streamlined to get the calendar back on track.One-leg European knock-out tiesUEFA, the European Club Association, European Leagues and FIFPRO Europe today signed a joint resolution on the principles of a contingency...