Tag Archives: World Cup

The Football Pink – Issue 8

A quick look at Issue 8 of The Football Pink, with an excerpt from my piece on Gazza.

The Best of Football Writing 2014

Happy New Year – it’s already started with a bang!

World Cup retrospective

A quick look back at a thunderbastard of a tournament

Football Manager meets Moneyball – Season 3 (second half)

The saga continues: Football Manager meets Moneyball, season 3 the second half.

Ryu Voelkel’s World Cup Photography

Ryu Voelkel is off to the World Cup to take more amazing photos – he talks to PNIG before hopping on the plane.

The missing man: Dean Ashton and what could have been

In a new post on PNIG, Jonny Sharples looks at a forgotten England international who would have been in his prime at this World Cup and asks whether he could have given England something a bit different… With the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil just around the corner, many pundits, writers, and fans will begin […]

Fight Cup: a literal World Cup, Part 5

It’s Part 5 of the literal World Cup from Doug Starnes – if Dali and Monty Python got together and convinced Sepp to let them do it their way…

Fight Cup: a literal World Cup Part 4

Fight Cup continues, as Doug Starnes paints himself in a figurative corner with the Group of Death (for him, creatively and stuff, at least)…

Fight Cup: a literal World Cup Part 3

It’s part 3 of Doug’s tour de farce, with added rip and certain quantities of roar – Fight Cup continues..!

Fight Cup: a literal World Cup Part 2

It’s Part the Second of Doug’s surreal take on the World Cup, using the teams’ nicknames to decide who wins and how. Take cover. The Red Fury are coming for you.