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G2's alternative guide to World Cup 2014

G2 takes a fresh look at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil: from the haircuts to the official song, the players to the Panini stickers
  • Graffiti painted by Brazilian street artist Paulo Ito on the entrance of a public schoolhouse in Sao Paulo.

    Brazil's anti-World Cup street art – in pictures

    With the World Cup starting in Brazil this week, we look at some of the street art that shows that not everyone is looking forward to The Greatest Show on Earth
  • Ottmar Hitzfeld stadium

    The world's most amazing football pitches – in pictures

    As the kickoff for the World Cup fast approaches, we track down the strangest, remotest and most striking pitches in the world, from Tajikistan to Morocco and Greenland
  • World Cup footballers' haircuts – an illustrated guide

    From the Gel Boy to the Godzilla, players will be sporting an array of bold and curious hairstyles on the pitch. Lauren Cochrane outlines the key trends

  • World Cup being raised by players

    Why there's no point in being a World Cup killjoy

  • Jennifer Lopez, Pitbull and Cláudia Leitte

    A critical theoretic Marxist dialectical analysis of the World Cup song

  • Caxirola … sound like a bunch of snakes.

    Seven key facts about the caxirola

  • World Cup cocktail

    World Cup 2014: how to get drunk, flirt and apologise in Portuguese

  • Seven disappointing facts about the World Cup trophy

  • World Cup 2014: who's cashing in?

  • How I became a World Cup expert – by collecting stickers

    Hadley Freeman
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