World Cup 2014
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From his appointment in 2012, through three international tournaments ending with the humiliating defeat to Iceland at Euro 2016, we take a look back at Roy Hodgson’s England reign
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Online bookmaker’s pre-tax profits in year to 30 April rise 32% to £120m, but some analysts think its shares are now overpriced
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Gary Cahill believes England will travel to next summer’s European Championships spurred on by their poor showing in the World Cup in Brazil
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The name may be the same but much has changed as Brazil try to put the disaster of the World Cup in the past with their first game of the Copa America against Peru
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FBI probes links between Brazil’s football ex-chief Ricardo Teixeira and Fifa general secretary Jérôme Valcke, as UK MPs told England ready to host in 2022
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In a case highlighted by Pep Guardiola wearing a T-shirt saying #JusticiaParaTopo the wife of the journalist killed at the World Cup in Brazil last year continues to fight for justice
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As evidenced by Louis van Gaal’s World Cup goalkeeper switch, analytics can enhance rather than replace the Machiavellian instincts of sport’s master tacticians
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New physique honed during rehab could give World Cup-winning midfielder the muscle to make him a winner for Arsène Wenger
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Brazil defender Dante has threatened to hit Bayern team-mate Thomas Müller if he keeps on making references to the 7-1 World Cup defeat
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At the time it was difficult to comprehend the dramatic scenes that unfolded during this heavyweight World Cup clash on 13 June but it proved the beginning of the end for the champions
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From Keylor Navas to James Rodríguez, 10 of the men who announced themselves at Brazil 2014
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Sportblog Brazil after the World Cup: almost back to business as usual
Jonathan Watts in Rio de Janeiro
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2014: the year a baboon chased Luke Donald, Jonathan Pearce nailed technology, and Felix Magath wowed Fulham with his cheese
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Germany are the indisputable champions of the world, but do any of their players warrant top spot above Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in our annual list?
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Germany won the World Cup, Lewis Hamilton won the F1 World Championship and Rory McIlroy was robbed for Sports Personality of the Year, but were you paying attention to the details?
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Paul Wilson on the best, worst and most controversial moments in football this year
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If you were on Facebook or Twitter this year you will have heard a lot about the World Cup and the Champions League – while watching people douse themselves in ice-cold water
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The German national team and football elite attend the premier of Die Mannschaft (The Team), a documentary about their World Cup victory in Brazil
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Banned from playing football since the World Cup, Luis Suárez is finally set to make his debut for Barcelona against Real Madrid in the first El Clasico of the season. Is the world’s most thrilling (and volatile) striker a reformed man? Simon Hattenstone tries to stay on his right side
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Former Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has revealed that some of his players kept their $100,000 World Cup bonuses in their backpacks in the dressing room while they were playing their Group G game against Portugal in Brasília
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The FA chairman, Greg Dyke, has said he thought the designer watch he was gifted during the Brazil World Cup was of little value and he had put it aside to give to charity
Book of the day Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City by Luiz Eduardo Soares – review