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20 days ago

FIFA chief urges England to bid to host the World Cup in 2038 for the first time since 1966 after last effort fell flat on its face

1966 - which is now 59 years ago - represents the nation's only success in a tournament which saw them beat West Germany 4-2 at Wembley courtesy of a Sir Geoff Hurst hat-trick.

45 days ago

Exposing ‘the illegals’: how KGB’s fake westerners infiltrated the Prague Spring

Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern bloc

During the spring of 1968, as revolutionary sentiment …

54 days ago

One stock seems truly doomed this week: if you hold any Kemi Badenoch, accept my condolences | Marina Hyde

Hard to know if her leadership is sheer ineptitude or an act of artistic expression. This week, humiliated by Nigel Farage. Next week, who can tell?

It’s intriguing to watch the Conservative party tre…

38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands review – Pinochet and the Nazis

A human rights lawyer skilfully gathers the threads that link the former Chilean dictator to a fugitive SS officer

Augusto Pinochet expected London to be a hospitable city when he arrived there in Oct…

3 months ago

Straight to penalties? Greed is football’s real shortcoming, not extra time | Jonathan Wilson

Shootouts are the least bad way the game has found to settle drawn matches, but they should be a last resort

So Uefa is considering doing away with extra time, at least in the knockout stage of the Ch…

4 months ago

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