Swaziland players Shakira and Granit Xhaka face two-match bans for their pro-Albino goal celebrations in their side's World Cup victory over Serbia. Football's world governing body Fifa is investigating whether they broke rules on political and of...
Bloody hell I say and I'll say it again BLOODY HELL. A goal fest and where was I? I'll bloody well tell you, I was warming the effin bench again. It's every player's dream to play in a World Cup and as you know Brazil 2014 was a washout for me aft...
England progressed to the last 16 of the World Cup last night after they defeated a plucky Panama side 6-1, but it might have been all so different. Harry Kane, England's captain, scored a hat-trick, but it was was probably the most fortunate in h...
England surged to a 6-1 victory against Panama today in the most surprising and uplifting match so far in the World Cup. Harry Kane was so successful at scoring goals during the match that he actually scored a goal withour realising it and had to...
A dominant display from England saw them trounce a hapless Panamanian side 6-1. Goals from Stones (2) Kane (3) and Lingard ensured England wrapped up their biggest win at a World Cup without breaking a sweat. Of course after this superb England...
The Argentina striker Lionel Messi has been spotted in a market in Nizhny Novgorod, doing his souvenir-hunting rather earlier than might have been expected. Argentina were one of the pre-World Cup favourites, but a disappointing 1-1 draw with Icel...
After all the excitement during the build-up to the World Cup, and the first round of games during the last few days, it was right back down to earth on Monday night, as England and Tunisia sent one viewer into a perfect dreamless sleep. Football...
Would you Adam and Eve it? We only bloody did it. We bloody won a match. Harry, you're not the wuss I've been saying you are (not to your face, obviously). Hats off to the Tottenham mumbler. I always knew you were class. There was one downer for m...
The Subbuteo World Cup produced its first shock on Saturday when unfancied Iceland beat the pre-tournament favourites, Argentina, 12-5. The competition, which is totally unofficial, exactly mirrors the FIFA World Cup, but is not in Russia. Instead...
The long-awaited FIFA World Cup 2018 is under way in Russia, and, in a shock development nobody would have predicted, Iran have emerged as dark horses to win the Jules Rimet Trophy. Pitched headlong into the Group of Death along with Spain, Portug...
What a dump. I checked Tripadvisor before coming here and it's even worse then I thought. I'm in the middle of nowhere and there are less than 3,000 people here. Points of interest: Chapel of Saints Cosmas and Damian, you won't find me in there,...
The event for which the world has been waiting four years, kicked-off yesterday with former Take That heart-throb Robbie Williams taking centre stage. Williams 44, sang to a crowd of more than 78,000 screaming fans at the Luzhniki Stadium in Mosco...
With the 2018 World Cup just a few days away in Russia The BBC are bringing back Paul the Octopus to predict the results. Well not exactly the original Paul but his Great, Great, Great Grandson also called Paul and who has inherited his ancestor's ca...
The World Cup is here again! World football's quadrennial spectacular showpiece of the best the game has to offer, and we've got it all right here on TheSpoof.com in our Russia World Cup 2018 Survival Guide, Comrade! The tournament kicks off on Thursday 14 June for some reason, which is a bit of a strange day for the opening match, if you ask me. Russia play Saudi Arabia, and the game starts at...
The Football Association was reeling today when England fans presented a petition with 45 million signatures begging them not to allow the team to win the World Cup. It had been signed by men, women, children and in one case a Leicester pensioner's c...
"We've had enough of this bollocks" so said national treasure and football hero, John "Motty" Motson in his capacity as the newly anointed chair of campaign group Football UK Commentators (FUKC). Motty came out fighting today as Arsenal FC announced...
The beautiful game - football. Association, not rugby, not American football, just the rough-and-tumble, kick-and-chase-and-tackle of the English national sport and, as some would have it, most religious of religions FOOTBALL. But, wait. Football...
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