‘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,
“... rooms); the Battle of Santiago (hosts Chile against Italy in 1962, characterised by the BBC’s David Coleman as ‘the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football in the history of the game’); die Wasserschlacht (the water battle) of 1974, when West Germany, the hosts, beat Poland on a waterlogged pitch that nullified the ... ”