Australia (IV) – Lipstick on the telly
MY earliest meaningful world cup memory is of my beloved Scotland being pitted against Brazil in 1982, in Seville, on a balmy, sweltering Spanish night. Minutes into the tie, the ball dropped into the inside right channel from a knock down from John Wark. The...

HONDURAS (I): A PIECE OF TWO HALVES
by Andi Thomas [A NOTE. For reasons that will soon become apparent, you are essentially reading two pieces here. Everything outside square brackets was written before France beat Honduras 3-0; everything inside after.] Some facts about Honduras. It has a population of...



PODCAST – ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE
NEIL ATKINSON, Andy Heaton, Craig Rimmer and Ben Johnson are in the tower to discuss the seemingly floundering transfer bids for Adam Lallana and Alberto Moreno as well as their respective TAW World Cup Teams, France, Columbia and Japan. Download Issue 10 of #TAW...
Nigeria (I): Iwo ni imole mi, ti o mu inu mi dun, nigbati sanmo ba dudu
By Lydia Bleasdale “WHEN DESCRIBING the character of our biggest city, Nigerians always like to tell a wry anecdote about the man who steps off a plane and is greeted with a sign that reads: THIS IS LAGOS. The message offers him nothing in the way of a cheerful...



Rob McDonald’s World Cup Group Guide – Group H
By Rob McDonald BELGIUM What We Know: It’s hard not to know a lot about this Belgian generation. It was only last week The Times did a main story on the development of this team and what lessons England could take from it. That being said, golden generations only stay...
Australia (IV) – Lipstick on the telly
MY earliest meaningful world cup memory is of my beloved Scotland being pitted against Brazil in 1982, in Seville, on a balmy, sweltering Spanish night. Minutes into the tie, the ball dropped into the inside right channel from a knock down from John Wark. The...



HONDURAS (I): A PIECE OF TWO HALVES
by Andi Thomas [A NOTE. For reasons that will soon become apparent, you are essentially reading two pieces here. Everything outside square brackets was written before France beat Honduras 3-0; everything inside after.] Some facts about Honduras. It has a population of...



PODCAST – ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE
NEIL ATKINSON, Andy Heaton, Craig Rimmer and Ben Johnson are in the tower to discuss the seemingly floundering transfer bids for Adam Lallana and Alberto Moreno as well as their respective TAW World Cup Teams, France, Columbia and Japan. Download Issue 10 of #TAW...
Nigeria (I): Iwo ni imole mi, ti o mu inu mi dun, nigbati sanmo ba dudu
By Lydia Bleasdale “WHEN DESCRIBING the character of our biggest city, Nigerians always like to tell a wry anecdote about the man who steps off a plane and is greeted with a sign that reads: THIS IS LAGOS. The message offers him nothing in the way of a cheerful...



Rob McDonald’s World Cup Group Guide – Group H
By Rob McDonald BELGIUM What We Know: It’s hard not to know a lot about this Belgian generation. It was only last week The Times did a main story on the development of this team and what lessons England could take from it. That being said, golden generations only stay...