World Cup

World Cup

• Socrates: Brazil's football revolutionary

  

  Footballers have not always been divorced from political struggle. Sean Ledwith remembers a legend of football and socialism

• If a week is a long time in...

  

  As England prepare to take on Panama Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman draws some lessons from the first week of World Cup 2018

• World Cup 2018: thirty two nations under a groove

  

  Will the World Cup which opens today be an orgy of petty-minded nationalism? Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman doesn’t seem to think so

• In a stink about a pink St George Cross

  

  Professional controversialist Toby Young has got himself all in a froth about a pink St George Cross at England’s international this week

• Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: the World Cup, the Olympics and the Fight for Democracy

  

  It was perfectly fair to enjoy the World Cup and carry on fighting for a better future, argues Orlando Hill