Continuing our History Workshop World Cup series, Tim Tate explores early attempts to establish women’s football as an international sport.
Tag: Russia 2018
Scoring for the Non-Aligned Movement: Yugoslavia, Football and the Third World
Continuing our History Workshop World Cup series, Richard Mills explores the role football played in establishing diplomatic ties between Tito’s Yugoslavia and the non-aligned nations of the Third World. When Ndaye Mulamba was sent off in the 23rd minute of Zaire’s World Cup match against Yugoslavia, his team were already […]
Transnational Protest, Solidarity and the 1978 World Cup in Argentina
With the World Cup underway in Putin’s Russia, Raanan Rein looks back forty years to the controversies surrounding the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, and the transnational solidarity campaign that sprang up in response.
Apathy, hooliganism, and bleak provincial towns: Russia 2018 and England 1966
In the first of our History Workshop World Cup series, Tosh Warwick compares the build-up to Russia 2018 with England’s own hosting of the games in 1966.
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