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FIFA Hired British Sex Comics To Make The Official 1970 World Cup Film
Early on while watching The World at Their Feet, FIFA’s chronicle of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, I dozed off. In my somnolence, I wondered if a saucy old British sex farce from the early 1970s was playing instead, a film full of fart jokes, sexual innuendo, and nurses frolicking in the nude. (If y...
Italy-Costa Rica: Live Online Streaming Links
Buon giorno! It's time for Italy-Costa Rica. Your links to watch on TV or online are below....
Police Probe Wheelchair-Bound Brazil Fans Standing At World Cup
According to the Telegraph, Brazilian police are investigating images of supposedly wheelchair-bound fans leaping to their feet during the World Cup's opening match in São Paulo. ...
Italy-Costa Rica: England Be Damned, The Ticos Are In Search Of A Draw
Most would agree Brazil 2014 has been as exciting as any World Cup group stage in recent memory. The tournament began with an unbelievable twelve consecutive matches without a draw. Of those first twelve matches, five were come-from-behind victories with two of the five genuine upsets (Netherlands-...
FIFPro Calls For Concussion Probe After Alvaro Pereira Gets Knocked Cold
Uruguay's Alvaro Pereira took a knee to the head in yesterday's England match. He was out on the pitch—completely unconscious. Just minutes later, he overruled the team's medical staff and returned to play. Today, world soccer's players' union called for an investigation using some pretty basic logi...
Deafblind Boy's Friends Build Mini Pitch And Help Him "Watch" World Cup
Carlos is deafblind, but he was hoping to experience the World Cup and support Brazil. Fortunately for him, his two friends found an incredibly creative way to let him follow the first game of the tournament....
Gallery: England's Saddest Fans
England wouldn't be England if, in today's match, they didn't fall down early, get back up, only to get shoved right back into the mud afterward. And England fans wouldn't be England fans if they didn't look hilariously sad about it in the aftermath. Here's a collection of the best Sad England Fans:...
Your Japan-Greece Open Thread
A win tonight by either Japan or Greece would get them right back into the race. Let's talk about it in the discussion section below....
Cameroon Are A Mess, And Samuel Eto'o May Be Abandoning Ship
In 2010, in South Africa, the French famously refused to get off the bus. Four years later, Cameroon refused to get on the plane to Brazil. ...
Japan vs. Greece: Your Live Online Streaming Links
The last game of the day is upon us. Here's how to watch or stream Japan vs. Greece....
Luis Suárez Sinks His Teeth Into England's Heart With A Second Goal
SEE?! LUIS SUÁREZ IS A GODDAMN ANIMAL!...
Wayne Rooney's First World Cup Goal Was Sexy As Hell
This goal was pretty dope....
Luis Suárez Is Back On The Field, Is Still Scoring Whenever He Wants
In the least surprising news of the day, Luis Suárez has already gotten back on the scoresheet for Uruguay after missing their first World Cup match due to injury. Uruguay lead 1-0....
Why Serey Die Broke Down During His National Anthem
Ivory Coast midfielder Serey Die shed tears while attempting to sing the anthem today. It wasn't patriotism—it was soon reported by multiple outlets that Die had learned of the death of his father two hours before kick-off. (The rumor appears to have been started by a hacky Twitter account.) It tur...
"Spain Was The Titanic": The World Reacts To A World Cup Collapse
It's full-on postmortem time in Spain and around the soccer world, as people grapple with La Roja's ignominious exit from this year's World Cup. One of the finest international runs the sport has ever seen went out not with a whimper, but with an embarrassing, well-documented shriek....
Whatever Happened To Wayne Rooney?
Wayne Rooney is a paradox. That isn't a sentence that anyone ever supposed to write, but, well, there it is. ...
Why Spain Got KO'd
It's now been a day since we saw defending World Cup and Euro champions Spain lose to Chile, 2-0, a day since they were mathematically eliminated from the knockout stages, and a day since we witnessed the grisly end of an era. It was a profound moment in soccer and in soccer's history, and still, al...
Your Uruguay-England Open Thread
The match of the day: Uruguay vs. England. We finally get to see Suárez!...
Uruguay vs. England: Live Online Streaming Links
Luis Suárez and his fellow Uruguayans take on Wayne Rooney and the English momentarily. Here's how to watch it or stream it online....