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Can you name the three World Cup winners who have also won the Golden Boot outright? What did Just Fontaine received for his feat of scoring 13 goals for France in the 1958 tournament in Sweden. Who went on to win the World Cup despite losing their first match? In which two World Cups have there been no sendings-off during the whole tournament? What was the significance of the black bands that appeared around the goal posts in Argentina in 1978? The World Cup is the greatest football show on earth. It is by far and away the most watched sporting event, attracting a global television audience of over 3.5 billion during four weeks of intense football action. There have been 20 tournaments in 16 different countries since 1930 and each one has its own unique stories and moments captured here in World Cup Nuggets. Richard Foster answers all of the above and provides you with some of the weirdest and most wonderful facts in World Cup history.
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Richard Foster is a freelance sportswriter and author, mainly focusing on football. He is a regular features contributor for The Guardian Sport Network, plus a variety of websites and blogs mainly on the fortunes of Crystal Palace including Sabotage Times, HLTCO and Five Year Plan. He has also written pieces for The Football League, has appeared on talkSPORT, BBC London and various podcasts including Whistleblowers and The Palace Podcast.Foster has written three books - the first, The A-Z of Football Hates is an irreverent look at what is rotten about the beautiful game and was published in August 2014. The Agony & The Ecstasy is his second book - The Comprehensive History of the Football League Play-Offs, which was originally published as a hardback edition in May 2015, the revised paperback edition came out in November. Talking Balls! a general sports quotes book was published in September 2015.He lives in North West London and is married with three children - all of whom are Palace fans.
