Linfield
Domestic dominance wanes while Europe still beckons
Windsor Park
Ideal for Norn Iron after refit, too big for Linfield
Belfast
Graced by Best, Brodie and all at Football for All
Sixty years of hurt
It was 60 years ago this week that Hungary’s Golden Team of Puskás, Bozsik and Kocsis lost the World Cup Final everyone expected them to win. Peterjon Cresswell looks back at the Miracle of Berne, West Germany’s shock 3-2 defeat of the Mighty Magyars in 1954 – and meets historian Tibor Takács, whose recent book […]
FC Luzern
Swiss cup winners treat fans to regular Euro jaunts
Lucerne
Timeless lakeside retreat with a long football history
Belo Horizonte blues
On Tuesday, England take on Costa Rica in Belo Horizonte. The setting has a certain resonance, for it was in this regional capital of south-eastern Brazil that England suffered their most ignominious defeat the last time the World Cup was held here. Their 1-0 defeat by the USA in 1950 is arguably the biggest shock […]
Stade de Reims
Recent revival honours memory of Fontaine and Kopa
Reims
Champagne capital toasts Euro return 60 years on