‘I wouldn’t pay it either’
Simon Skinner: World Cup Wallcharts, 25 June 2026
The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup
by Jonathan Wilson.
Little Brown, 608 pp., £12.99, May,978 0 349 14573 0 Show More
by Jonathan Wilson.
Little Brown, 608 pp., £12.99, May,
“... to back a UN resolution declaring Argentina the aggressor. There was talk of a boycott, but Margaret Thatcher, knowing little of football or the home associations’ tournament records, calculated that their performances would improve troop morale; in the event Scotland went out in the first group phase and England and Northern Ireland in the ... ”