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
2006 In sister’s honour, a headbutt “You can give it to your sister”. All it took was this remark by Italian Marco Materazzi while he gently brushed his hands across the Frenchman Zinedine Zidane’s shirt in the World Cup final. Zidane drove his forehead into Materazzi’s chest, this being his last action as one of the greatest footballers of all time, in his final game before retiring.