In this week’s Sport: the World Cup final - the teams we expect to start in the Maracana, and the paths they both took to get there | Dietmar Hamann tells us what it’s like to play in the biggest game in football | World Cup diary - the final entries | Tour de force? As the Tour de France trundles on, we ask some of cycling’s biggest names if their sport has finally become one we can truly believe in | Liam Plunkett - the rise, fall and rise again of the England fast bowler