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In July, Manchester United announced a record-breaking £750m 10-year kit deal with Adidas. One of the world’s richest clubs became even richer but it was also noted that the colossal £75m annual […]
Nigeria’s Segun Toriola battled away superbly to win a 41-shot rally against Singapore’s Ning Gao during their semi-final clash.
Germany 1-0 Argentina (AET) After contesting both the 1986 and 1990 World Cup final, familiar foes Germany and Argentina met again in their third World Cup final. La Albiceleste won the first encounter […]
Brazil 1-7 Germany For over 60 years, Brazil has been tormented by the memory of El Fantasma (The Ghost). It was at the Maracana in the 1950 World Cup Final when Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguay’s […]
The feverish excitement surrounding the group stages and last-16 led to arduous claims that 2014 was well on its way to becoming the ‘best-ever’ World Cup. So, in response to the overly used ‘best-ever’ […]
It was a night for history. A first for the up-coming quarter-finals and a first for a goalkeeper. Five of the eight second-round matches went into extra-time. Already more than the entire […]
France 2-0 Nigeria Late strikes from Paul Pogba and a Joseph Yobo own-goal were enough to take Les Bleus into the World Cup quarter-finals. Given the entertaining matches both teams had previously […]
Holland 2-1 Mexico Mexican hearts were broken by Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben in Fortaleza as the Dutch left it very late to beat Mexico. #MEX Round of 16 results the last 6 […]
Brazil 1-1 Chile (Brazil win 3-2 on penalties) The first knock-out match at the 2014 World Cup took place in Belo Horizonte and went the distance with Brazil prevailing in dramatic fashion against […]
The dust has settled on the group phase and the World Cup now becomes a straight forward knock-out competition. We are now 75% of the way through the World Cup (48 matches played out of […]
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