Phil Ascough: 3 books

84 years since the first tournament, 48 years since England won it, the World Cup has its critics, but time stands still when your team plays. Hope and horror, passion and pain—and that's just the draw for the final groups! This is the ultimate collection of World Cup teasers, pulling together the...

Hull City. Two fantastic football grounds since the war, two amazing seasons in the Premier League, two spells in administration. Too many questions that we can’t answer, but quite a few that we can. Hull-based journalist Phil Ascough has trawled through his own memories, picked the brains of fellow...

The Rugby World Cup: it's the scrum of the earth, the biggest, the best, and the most prestigious rugby union tournament in the world. It also throws up some of sport's most enduring and exciting rivalries, as well as the age-old culture clash of northern versus southern hemisphere. Never Mind the...