One match. One goal. Eighty minutes of deliberate inaction. The infamous West Germany-Austria game at the 1982 World Cup exposed a fatal flaw in football's tournament format and forced Fifa to rewrite ...

West Germany Austria controversy reshaped tournament scheduling to stop teams exploiting results and gaining an unfair ...

In 1982, Spain hosted the tournament, which increased to 24 finalists, evoking considerable controversy long before a ball was kicked in what Argentina’s Diego Maradona would later label “a World Cup ...

The Scotland squad for the 1982 World Cup was the most internationally adept the nation had ever assembled. Ten European Cup winners' medals between them from the previous five years, three Uefa Cup ...