Best performances…..Austria found a way to build on a better than expected European Championship (competitive without b... Read More

Mario Kempes picks a perfect XI – he’s best remembered for a stunning 1978 World Cup. KEMPES CELBRATES AGAINST HOLLANDGK - Miguel Reina – Cordoba CF, Barcelona & Atletico Madrid ... Read More

Moggi still in business? FIFA has a new World Cup sponsor. Anyone that has been at, or has been involved in a major sporting event knows what a critical piece... Read More

MeanSucka - I know I may be late on this one - what do you think of Michael Owen saying that the England need to rethink psychological preparation for matches: "When fear takes over, you start to do things wrong and take the easy option which in our case is lumping the ball forward to the front men. I’m not absolving myself from blame… What must be addressed as much as anything is our psychologica... Read More

An article by Marcela Mora y Araujo on Javier Zanetti. It was a stunning decision to leave him out of the Argentine 2006 World Cup. Jonathan Wilson lo... Read More

The NBA and FedEx Corp. have extended their United States marketing partnership that is centered around a core of internati... Read More

Craigy_f - (Are you) feeling a tad more confident after beating the Ukraine?What’s your take on Lampard being booed? Are there any other instances like that which you can recall? Do you pay attention to stats in football? Do you read any print media on football? Bobby – I will not feel confident until there are enough points to finish in the top two. However, the win against Ukraine does guarantee that Scotland will go into the Italy game with a ch... Read More

Coming hot on the heels of slshusker's post about game 1, the other semi between South Africa and Argentina is done and we now know who will be playing for the Cup next weekend. Now, being at work today (20 hours ahead of West Coast time and all) I wasn't able to watch the ... Read More

Go on, have a laugh at my predictions:-   UEFA European Championships 2008   Group A:- Armenia v Serbia – 0-1 Poland v Kazakhstan -2-1 Belgium v Finland – 1-2 Azerbaijan v Portugal – 1-0   Group B:- Scotland v Ukraine – 2-1 Faroe Islands v France 1-1 Italy v Georgia – 3-0     Group C:- Hungary v Malta – 6-0 Moldova v Turkey – 1-2 Greece v Bosnia-Herzegovina – 2-0   Group D:- Slovakia v San Marino – 5-0 Cyprus v Wales – 2-3 Republic of Ireland v Germany – 1-3   Group E:- England v Estonia – 1-0 Croatia v Israel – 3-0   Group F:- Iceland v Latvia – 2-0 Liechtenstein v Sweden – 1-3 Denmark v Spain – 3-2   Group G:- Belarus v Luxembourg – 2-0 Romania v Netherlands – 2-2 Slovenia v Albania – 1-0   Rugby World CupEngland 21 v France 19 Argentina 10 South Africa 26   CONMEBOL qualifying matches for FIFA World Cup 2010   Uruguay v Bolivia – 3-1 Argentina v Chile -2-2 Ecuador v Venezuela – 2-1 Peru v Paraguay – 1-3 Colombia v Brazil – 1-4 Read More

Henk Ten Cate will bring attacking verve and a notoriously short temper to Stamford Bridge, writes Daan Schippers. Cate or should it Ten Cate played 21 games for the Edmonton Drillers in the NASL in 1980. Forme... Read More

It looks as if the Heskey and Owen partnership has reached the iconic stage. The statistic of 14 goals in 14 starts or 12 starts together (and that was before Russia and Israel... Read More

Testy final eventually comes to life; Argentina edges a close one. The final of the U20 World Cup played at the Nation Soccer Stadium in Toronto wasn... Read More

Argentina made it yet another FIFA under-20 World Cup win after coming back from a goal down to beat a battling Czech Republic. These two sides are played to a scoreless draw in the group stage and after an hour of play in this... Read More

I expect peace and love to break out for this game. Chile will be on their absolute best behaviour while I'm sure that Austria haas also been told to g... Read More

As with the other semi final played the previous night this one was essentially decided in the first quarter of an hour. Only seven minutes after Chile goalkeeper Cristopher Toselli had set a new FIFA under-20 World Cup ... Read More

Two goals in the opening fifteen minutes of this game killed any remote chance there might have been that this semi final could have turned out to be a memorable match for the neutrals. Missing two of their normal starting defenders (Madl suspended, Panny injured) and their defens... Read More

Chile vs. ArgentinaTime (EST), date & location – 19:45, July 19 at the National Soccer Stadium (BMO Field... Read More

Flaccid Argentina collapse; three goal Brazil score early, dominate and coast to victory.   Pre tournament this was the final everyone wanted to see.  The two South Americ... Read More

There is the old adage that if you can’t say anything good, then don’t say anything at all. So in terms of the Czech Republic’s performance against Spain I can say that they do take penalties... Read More

Tevez the catalyst, Riquelme, Zanetti superb as Argentina dismantle Peru in the second half.    Hosting Argentina again was the Estadio Metropolitano de Futbol de Lara in Bar... Read More