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This month we’ve got the second set of group games, which produced some notable matches and moments. Team USA triggering a soccer boom with a victory that will have fatal consequences elsewhere, Roy Hodgson’s swaggering Swiss putting the skids
This month we’ll look at the opening pair of matches in each group at USA 94. There was a raft of new laws on tackling, offside and the back pass, which FIFA hoped would liven up the show, after the stodginess of Italia 90. The gaudy opening
Series 4 of World Cup Rambling and it's time to get in the DeLorean and go back thirty years for a mammoth odyssey through USA 94 - a very underrated tournament. We start the series by looking at why football (or "soccer") failed to take a hold
A snippet of what you have to look forward to in Series 4 of World Cup Rambling, which starts on 2nd March 2024.Subscribe to World Cup Rambling on your podcast platform.TWITTER@MatthewOkot@WorldCupRamble
It's time for something very special. We have World Cup Rambling’s first-ever guest. In this episode, I talk to Gary Thacker. Gary is an author and journalist, who has contributed most prominently to These Football Times, but also to other p
In the final episode of series three, we look at one of the strangest tales in World Cup history – the theft of the Jules Rimet Cup from a stamp exhibition in London in 1966. The holy grail of football has a storied history, carried on an ocean
It’s time to dip back into the 1986 World Cup, by looking at the match of the tournament, a mighty, midday clash in the Mexican heat between France and Brazil, two of the most iconic teams of that era. France, the reigning European Champions,
Graham Taylor took over the England job amidst much optimism, following England’s strong Italia 90 campaign. The expectation was that England would continue to be a force at major tournaments.However, the optimism evaporated as Taylor stru
This month we have the final part of the Argentina 78 retrospective. The format of the competition – a second group stage, with the winners of the two groups reaching the final – is already under scrutiny and this will intensify as this second
We’re back with part 2 of the Argentina 78 retrospective. This episode will focus on the first group stage. We have Argentina playing under the weight of domestic expectations, accompanied by a stench of dodgy refereeing. We also have the re
This month sees the return of the World Cup retrospective, with the focus being on the 1978 tournament in Argentina, arguably the most controversial World Cup in history. In 1966, Argentina were awarded the rights to host the 1978 World Cup –
This month it’s a tribute to Pelé, who died on 29th December 2022. Pelé burst onto the World Cup scene as a 17-year-old in 1958. A late addition to the starting eleven, he was awesome for a teenager, scoring six goals to help Brazil win the W
This month we look back at France’s epic capitulation at the 2010 World Cup. From the start, the French campaign was shrouded in gloom and scandal, courtesy of Raymond Domenech’s haphazard management, Thierry Henry’s handball in the play-off ag
When Brazil met Holland in the second group stage of the 1974 World Cup, a place in the final was at stake. It was the reigning champions against the pretenders to the throne. Johan Cruyff and his colleagues were playing 'Total Football', a fl
A tantalising snippet of what you have to look forward to in the third series of World Cup Rambling, which is due to start on Saturday 4th February 2023.Subscribe to World Cup Rambling on your podcast platform. Rate and review the podcast.
A nice Christmas surprise for all you dear listeners - a look back at Argentina versus France, arguably the craziest World Cup Final ever, which ended with Lionel Messi emulating Diego Maradona by captaining the Argentinians to World Cup glory
In this episode we have a look ahead to the 2022 World Cup, the background to the tournament, the controversies, the response to Qatar’s tournament, and a look at some of the teams. This is the last episode of series 2 so thanks for listening
After four turbulent years, Diego Maradona returned for one last shot at World Cup glory in 1994. After leading a bedraggled Argentina through a qualification play-off against Australia, Diego went all out to regain his fitness for USA ’94. A r
In the summer of 1986, for the first and only time, Alex Ferguson took a team to a major international tournament. Ferguson had been Scotland’s assistant manager, working alongside the legendary Jock Stein. Ferguson regarded Stein as a mentor f
"Not so much a football match as an international incident," was how legendary sports write Hugh McIlvanney described the 1966 World Cup quarter-final between England and Argentina. England came into the match after a series of solid but unspe
This episode reflects on France’s disastrous World Cup defence in 2002. Roger Lemerre’s team arrived in South Korea as World Champions, European Champions, and Confederations Cup holders. They had Zinedine Zidane in peak form, as well as the go
Chile feels a burning sense of national pride as World Cup hosts, having suffered a traumatising earthquake in 1960, before losing their key organiser in the weeks leading up to the 1962 tournament. However, some Italian journalists have been d
After a mammoth 48 group matches, dragged out over two stages, the 1982 World Cup finally remembers that it’s supposed to be a knockout competition. A resurgent Italy, with Paolo Rossi having found his shooting boots, sweep past Poland. Then in
The first group stage is over, but the unusual format of this competition means it’s time for another group stage. Poland reach the semi-finals for the second time in three tournaments, after shutting out the Soviet Union – a popular result. El
Here is the long-anticipated (yeah right) start of series two. We’re going back in time to the 1982 World Cup. Joao Havelange’s conception of the ‘biggest World Cup ever’ came to fruition, as the 24-team extravaganza rolled into Spain, a countr
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