World Cup & European Championships
As the 2014 World Cup draws increasingly closer to kick-off, Melosport will round-up the best of the archives across a seven-part series. This will commence with the inaugural 1930 World Cup, covering […]
With the drama of the World Cup qualifying play-offs finally being digested, the 32 confirmed nations of the 2014 World Cup Finals will turn their attention to Costa do Sauipe—in the Brazilian […]
One of the world’s most captivating places, Brazil is a huge, dazzling South American country made up of glorious white-sand beaches, unspoilt rain forests and wild, rhythmic, overflowing metropolises. It is […]
Great sportsmen and teams are often defined by the very moments when they have to summon all their reserves to deliver at the biggest stage against all odds. In 1974, Muhammad Ali […]
Euro 2012 reaches its climax in Kiev on Sunday night. Fittingly, the last two nations to have won major tournaments in the last six years come face to face to decide who […]
Well, well, well, those anti-England pundits are very quiet today aren’t they? After Alan Shearer commented that England ‘had no chance of winning the next world cup’, mainly due to the fact […]
As Euro 2012 gets down to its final four, lifting the Henri Delaunay trophy becomes more than just a dream. Portugal, Spain, Germany and Italy are now 90 minutes away from the […]
After toiling for 120 minutes, England found themselves in well-known territory – the lottery of the penalty shoot-out. Barely ten minutes later and there was a familiar outcome with the Three Lions […]
Tonight’s match in Gdansk is not just a European Championships quarter-final. For the past three years, Greece has been financially crippled and been subjected to severe austerity measures, seemingly at Germany’s mercy. […]
Tonight saw the completion of the Euro 2012 group phase. Each night there has been cliff-hangers followed by a lack of fingernails. The tournament has not disappointed thus far. From the 16 […]
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