FIFA World Cup 2022: Greatest show on Earth returns
FIFA World Cup 2022: Greatest show on Earth returns
At its best and its worst, the FIFA World Cup is more thrilling than any other event can conjure up. A live performance unequalled in its vigour and trickery, the thralling geometry of its movement a mere foil to the violent earnestness of its combat. From 1930 to 2022, from Pele to Zidane to Mbappe, here's a walk down the lanes of the history of the beautiful game
1982 Brutality unpunished With the scores tied at 1-1 in the semi-final, French substitute Patrick Battiston was through for a likely goal when German keeper Harald Schumacher smashed into him. Battison lost three teeth, had a broken vertebra and needed oxygen on the pitch. Amazingly, Schumacher escaped unpunished.