French football official resigns: Mutiny in Les Bleus
Jean Louis Valentin, the deputy director of the French Football Federation resigns: “The players do not want to train....
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Italy draw level through Iaquinta penalty!
In the 26′ minute Ricardo Montolivo’s blast hit the inside of the upright and in 99.9% of the times...
Italy’s Smeltzdown! New Zealand go up
Shane Smeltz will go down as the player who caused the shock of the World Cup. If this score...
A nation unites in outrage over the stolen goal
Rarely do I agree with the NY Post but this time they got it right In the USA, the...
Riveros scores. Gooooooaaaaallll!
Paraguay goes two up with Cristian Riveros 85th minute blast. They are now almost assured of the group of...
Cameroon out of the World Cup
It was an entertaining game and the Indomitable Lions gave everything at the end. However, Denmark stood fast to...
Anelka sent home
The World Cup is over for Nicholas Anelka. According to L’Equipe, the Chelsea striker had a showdown with French...
Koman Coulibaly faces the axe
The referee got of onto the wrong foot from the get go as Clint Dempsey butted heads in the...
Wesley Sneijder smashes the ball. Gooooaaaaaalllll!
Netherlands go up with Sneijder’s missile smashing of Kawashima’s hands into goal. 52nd minute. Van Persie does the spade...
Rooney’s Algeria prescience
In an interview with Four Four Two: ” The support we’ve had from the England fans in tournaments has...
Halftime: Netherlands 0 Japan 0
Nothing. After the excitement of yesterday with yellow card palooza, exciting goals, stirring comebacks, robbed goals, shock results and...
Fabio Capello: Lost in translation
The pundits are getting restive. Graham Taylor: ” If you’re the England manager – and I’ve been there –...
All quiet on the Dutch front
30+ minutes and there has been very little by the way of excitement in the Japan vs Netherlands match....
Video: Ref misses Torsten Frings handball, saves Germany
As Jesse G., points out the most infamous refereeing blunder was the missed or ignored handball by Torsten Frings...
Eric Wynalda blowhard calls for a Coulibaly investigation
Wynalda is a blowhard calling for an investigation into Koman Coulibaly. Here he is making two points. One that...
Engerland is displacing Les Bleus in comedic content
The Three Lions: Should I laugh or should I cry, is it all the same to you? France was...
A soulless England draw enterprising Algeria
There will be no New Order “World in Motion” like assocation with this England side. They barely registered a...
Video: The US were robbed!
I still have not figured out why the referee from Mali, Koman Coulibaly disallowed that goal in the 84th...
Valter Birsa fires one past Tim Howard!
Disaster in the 13th minute! Birsa who has easily been the best player for the Slovenians drills a long...
Yellow card gate! An out of control referee cheats Klose
Alberto Undiano: “I think I will give out eight more” Unbeaten since the 1986 World Cup in group stages....
Serbia under siege: Podolksi misses a penalty!
Great comeback by Germany as Mesut Oezil shows his class. They are really knocking on the door. Oezil to...
Second half: Will there be more send offs?
Sami Khedira, Phillip Lahm, Miroslav Klose (2 yellow cards = red), Aleksandar Kolarov, and Branislav Ivanovic are all flirting...
USA vs Slovenia: Torres and Findley to start
This is fantastic! Bradley must have read my reasons why Jose Francisco Torres should start. He joins Michael Bradley...
Milan Jovanovic scores!
German defense in disarray with Klose gone. Serbia takes advantage as Krasic sends in a cross which is headed...
Germany vs Serbia: Miroslav Klose sent off
5 yellow cards. The referee Alberto Undiano is destroying the match. Just sent off Klose already on a booking...
Video: Not David James’s finest moment
Against Austria in Euro 2008, James muffed a simple collection allowing Andreas Ivanschitz to equalize for Austria. Robert Green...
David James to start against Algeria
The oldest player in the World Cup at 39 years is set for a shock recall. Fabio Capello kept...
Video: 2008: Germany 2 Serbia 1
The last time these two countries met was a May 2008 friendly which resulted in a 2-1 win for...
Scouting report on the Slovenians
Not much in terms of travel for both teams with the Slovenians facing the Algerians in nearby Polokwane. By...
The USA needs to start Jose Francisco Torres
Against Slovenia the tried and trusted counterattacking measures will not work. This is a team that has a very...
Administrative cock up? England’s unfamiliarity with the Jabulani
This is getting to conspiracy theory level. It seems that Adidas sent 25 Jabulani balls to the FA for...
Domenech’s men “outdated and unimaginative”
The French media came down hard on the loss to Mexico questioning Raymond Domenech’s judgment. Le Monde called Les...
Video: Group A: Mexico 2 France 0
Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez holds his line perfectly, moving only when the ball was lofted over by Rafa Marquez. Great...
BBC’s Stevenson: Argentina = the new Brazil?
Brilliant insights from the Beeb’s Jonathan Stevenson >> Why he links to a trashy betting article is anyone’s guess,...
Video: Greece 2, Nigeria 1
Nigeria loses its way after Sani Kaita gets sent off for losing control… Greece come back and win. Kalu...
Arsenal to meet Liverpool on opening day!
Cracking start to the 2010- 2011 Premiership season. Anfield welcomes Arsenal in the post Benitez era and by that...
Tim Cahill and Khune get a one match ban
The Socceroos appeal to get a one match ban overturned on Tim Cahill was rejected by the FIFA disciplinary...
Group A: Domenech exhorts his players against El Tri
” On the pitch, we do not use many words. Especially with the vuvuzela, we hear nothing. What we...
Higuain scores a hat trick: Argentina 4 South Korea 1
The Argentinian Pibes have stamped their class on this game. 80′ : Sergio Aguero lays a perfect pass with...
Halftime: Argentina 2 South Korea 1
A boneheaded mistake by Martin Demichelis who’s never been mistaken for a genius gifts Lee Chung Young a goal...
Gonzalo Higuain makes it two: Argentina coasting
Heads the ball into the net on the far post from a flick on by Nicholas Burdisso who came...
Group B: The Nigerians will overcome the Greeks with speed
Obafemi Martins is fast, deadly, and deep Nigeria vs Greece, Blaumfontein/Mangaung, June 16, Thursday Nigeria is the fastest team...
Argentina goes up: South Korea’s own goal
Park Joo Young scores an unfortunate own goal from a low free kick by Leo Messi in the 18th...
Selwyn Brown: Celebrating the World Cup in Africa
Another report from reggae supergroup Steel Pulse. This one is submitted by Selwyn “Bumbo” Brown, founding member – vocals,...
Video: Huh Jung Moo and Diego Maradona share a history
When South Korea meet Argentina today, Diego Maradona will remember Huh Jung Moo, the current South Korean coach who...
Group B: Leo Messi vs the hard charging South Koreans
Park Ji Sung comes up against former Man Utd teammate Carlos Tevez Argentina vs Korea Republic, Group B, Johannesburg...
England is battling the Kaiser
If you have not been following this, the long and short of it is, Der Kaiser has pronounced his...
Spain vs Switzerland: Howard Webb’s decisions questioned
If Spain are to win the World Cup it must do so against the discomfiting statistic that losing opening...
Video: Group H: Uruguay 3 South Africa 0
Diego Forlan’s 27′ superlative long range strike from 30 yards dips in leaving Khune completely stranded. His and Siphiwe...
Should Drogba Stay on the Bench?
If you watched the Ivory Coast versus Portugal encounter, you saw Didier Drogba come in and play tentatively whenever...
Luis Aragones: “Spain played without conviction”
Luis Aragones who led Spain to its Euro 2008 glory weighed in on the defeat and he pulled no...
Video: Group H: Switzerland 1 Spain 0
After all that great ball control by Spain, the goal was scored in a moment where the players lost...
Video: Group H: Chile 1 Honduras 0
Chile won a World Cup match after 48 years. The last time was in 1962 when they hosted the...
Final: Uruguay 3, South Africa 0
Tragic red card on SA keeper Itumeleng Khune. He leaves the game and SA collapses. Forlan converts the penalty...