World Cup 2022
The Fiver | World Cup ball-bots, a better VAR and Fifa’s priorities for Qatar 2022
In today’s Fiver: Information overload at the Human Rights World Cup, potential Fiver merch and Mo Salah shortens our weekend
Gregg Bakowski
01, Jul, 2022 @3:39 PM
AI-powered technology will be used to speed up VAR offside calls at World Cup
New AI-powered technology will be used at the Qatar World Cup, Fifa has confirmed, claiming it will halve the time taken to make VAR offside decisions
Paul MacInnes
01, Jul, 2022 @8:00 AM
Watford LGBTQ+ groups score victory but football still has a long way to go | Max Rushden
There are reasons to be positive but the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community show there is still endemic homophobia in the game
Max Rushden
01, Jul, 2022 @7:00 AM
Qatar fails to offer World Cup safety guarantees to LGBTQ+ fans
Qatar’s Supreme Committee in charge of organising the World Cup has failed to answer direct questions relating LGBTQ+ fans and their concerns
Paul MacInnes
29, Jun, 2022 @1:00 PM
FA wants to deliver positive World Cup legacy for migrant workers, insists chair
The Football Association will be having talks on possible financial remedy for workers and a Qatar workers’ centre, its chair, Debbie Hewitt, has said
Paul MacInnes
21, Jun, 2022 @11:35 AM
The Guardian view on Qatar’s migrant workers: football owes them
Editorial: The FA and the England team should back proposals to safeguard migrant workers’ rights after the World Cup in November
Editorial
19, Jun, 2022 @5:30 PM
On the plane or sofa? How England’s World Cup squad is shaping up
With the tournament five months away, we look at the selection issues and who could be in, out or a wait and see
Nick Ames
16, Jun, 2022 @7:00 AM
With the World Cup in sight, the USMNT still have doubts over keepers and strikers
A mixed bag of June fixtures wrapped up on Tuesday with a testy 1-1 draw away to El Salvador as Gregg Berhalter continued his Qatar preparations
Tom Dart
15, Jun, 2022 @11:14 AM
World Cup 2022 power rankings: breaking down the final 32
Now all the finalists for Qatar have been confirmed, we assess who look most likely to lift the trophy in six months
Nick Ames and Ed Aarons
15, Jun, 2022 @10:45 AM
Southgate warns England players and families against Netflix documentary
Gareth Southgate urged England players and their families not to get involved in any fly-on-the-wall documentary films around the World Cup
Nick Ames
13, Jun, 2022 @9:30 PM
Manchester United players have ‘lot to do’ to make World Cup, warns Southgate
Gareth Southgate has made it clear that players such as Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho are at risk of missing out on Qatar
David Hytner
12, Jun, 2022 @9:30 PM
In-form Peru bring eye of ‘The Tiger’ to World Cup playoff with Socceroos
Peru’s manager Ricardo ‘The Tiger’ Gareca takes the core of the team that beat Australia 2-0 at the last World Cup into the playoff against the Socceroos
Pedro Canelo
11, Jun, 2022 @8:00 PM
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