years in the making, a book at the right time
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“Sometimes players say things to get in our heads, call us short, brown. This guy said, ‘You ain’t nothing to me, man. You’re only to my waist!’ I thought, ‘I’ll take you, man.’ They say, “Stupid Mexicans, go home, go back to Mexico.” If they...
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Deep-sea psychic who shot to fame for his uncanny football predictions is subject of film The Murder of Paul the OctopusWorld Cup heroes make easy subjects for stirring cinema, be they real-life (The Game of their Lives, Zidane, The Miracle of Bern) or...
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a giveaway, a tackle, a hug, another four years—-
Was it just a hug or something more? And what can we all learn from that most intimate moment filmed for millions to see? Penn State writing teacher Casey Wiley looks for long-term meaning in an emotional moment as he wraps up the fan’s four-year cycle…...
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Danielle moves into the Lineker home: this is Hello! magazine turned into televisionI've been conned, lured in on false pretences. I mean, what would you expect from BBC 3's "Adult Season"? Exactly, me too. But instead I've got this lady here going on ...
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The Ugly Face of Beauty | Britain By Bike: North Devon | Danielle Lineker - My New Stepfamily | CSI: Miami | Shooting Stars | True Stories: The CoveThe Ugly Face of Beauty8pm, Channel 4Here's a series to put you off cosmetic surgery forever, as Dr Chri...
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Spanish joy is unconfined after the country's first World Cup victory. Plácido Domingo, for one, flew to Johannesburg for the final, and joined the team for their post-match celebrations. The Royal Opera House must have been praying Domingo still had ...
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The Ugly Face of Beauty | That Mitchell and Webb Look/Shooting Stars | Witch Hunter's Bible | True Stories: Maradona | CSI: Miami | King of the HillThe Ugly Face Of Beauty8pm, Channel 4Cosmetic surgery is cheaper and more readily available than ever be...
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Mermaid, WicklowFootball has been a gift to Irish playwrights in recent decades, with the snakes-and-ladders fortunes of the Irish soccer team providing ready-made melodrama. Metaphors of the national psyche have attached themselves to the game in a th...
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Truly dedicated music lovers are as much supporters as fans, enduring disappointing albums in the hope that one day their team will return to former gloryI've never supported a football team, but as I watched the tortured faces of England supporters th...
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The sound of the World Cup has been taken up by orchestras and even banned from festivals. All together now: ppppprrrrrpppppppppppppppppppp!Never mind the glockenspiel, the vuvuzela has become the hottest musical instrument of 2010, blaring not just at...
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Director Shane Meadows makes his TV debut on Channel 4 in September with This Is England 86, a four-part followup to his Bafta-winning film. The drama serial revisits the same Grimsby gang during the Mexico World Cup
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With our football correspondents in South Africa, guardian.co.uk/music editor Tim Jonze stepped up to the role of pundit. He was joined by 50,000 Glastonbury fans to watch the World Cup match on a specially erected big screen ... what could go wrong?Ti...
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There was a mass exodus to faraway fields as England fans flocked to watch a big screening of the Germany game. So where did that leave Dr John and Slash?You have to pity the acts who were forced to compete with the England versus Germany match at this...
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Technical hiccups made the World Cup a joy to watch and The Biology of Dads provided genuine insights amid more obvious observations of blokes being hopelessIt took a little while, but it's easy now to love this World Cup. Partly for very new reasons, ...
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In a bumper week for sports fans, 5Live served all the aces, says Miranda SawyerSpare a thought this weekend for sports commentators. They've been through the mill. "In 20 years of commentating, I have had my fair share of nerves, but nothing quite lik...
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Poll: Summer's officially here ... and this year Glastonbury, Wimbledon and the World Cup are all competing for our attention. But which one will you be watching?
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Hungarian footballer and film buff Zoltán Gera picks his favourite films from his homeland ahead of the upcoming Hungarian film festival in LondonFilm can be very important for a nation – for finding an identity, and keeping it, and also for telling...
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Political success can be dictated by that on the football pitchThe last thing we needed yesterday, you might have thought, was a spot more football and politics. But Back Home: Wilson, the World Cup and the 1970 General Election (Radio 2) was more broa...
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Around the giant strobe-lit coffee table we were treated to an elite triangulation of senior punditryAfter the flapping, squawking, Carry On-style imbroglio of ITV's stewardship of England's bid – not, perhaps to win, but simply to exist without humi...
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Iceland's most talented export has joined forces with the Brooklyn experimentalists. But what will it sound like?Björk and Dirty Projectors are no strangers, the latter covered the former's Hyperballad and both parties joined forces for a benefit gig ...
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