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‘All The Fish Are Sold’: Spain Claim Seven World Cup Votes
In a turn of phrase more befitting an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E than an interview regarding the upcoming World Cup 2018 voting ceremony in Zurich, the chief executive of the Spain/Portgual bid, Miguel Angel Lopez, has claimed that ‘all the fish are sold’ and that the Iberian campaign may have already (theoretically) garnered…
England 2018 Plead With FIFA To ‘Ignore The Media’
In a development that reveals just how low they now deem themselves to have sunk in FIFA’s estimations (and how far back they have fallen back in terms of the impending vote), England 2018 have written to every voting member on the organisation’s executive committee (EC), pleading with them to not to punish the bid…
England 2018 Drop Complaint As Russians Grovel
The English 2018 World Cup bid team have signalled that they are now willing to withdraw the complaint they made to FIFA against the head of Russia’s World Cup bid, after receiving a grovelling (and possibly pre-emptive) apology from the Russian sports minister. Whereas anyone who has ever had the misfortune of having to spend…
Arshavin Russia Wallpaper by SamiamOwo
For some reason, Andrei Arshavin is really wall-o-genic. By that I mean that usually, wallpapers with the Russian look fantastic, especially with the Russia football shirt on. This one is no different, being one of the most stunning wallpapers visually I’ve seen in a long time. There’s so much at work here, so many strong…
Adidas Kick TR 2010 shoes – world cup edition
If you’re looking for a sexy pair of shoes to celebrate the world cup 2010 in South Africa, then I recommend that you check out the Adidas KICK TR 2010 World Cup shoes. The shoes are made with the world cup in mind, with six different models being released. The most impressive one in my opinion…
Euro 2012 Qualifiers
The draw for the Euro 2012 qualifying stages was held today in Warsaw and the resulting groups left us with few possibilities of upsets. England missed out on qualification last time around but have a relatively easy group to negotiate with the likes of Wales, Montenegro and Bulgaria standing in their way. Switzerland round up…
Who Will Host World Cups 2018 and 2022?
11 candidates have made official bids to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022. Nine of the candiates are interested in staging the tournament in either 2018 or 2022, while two are just bidding for 2022. Those to apply for both were England, Russia, Australia, the USA, Japan, Mexico, Indonesia and joint bids from…
No Deal or No Deal: The story of Adrian Ilie and Terek Grozny
Twenty-two minutes isn’t long. Yet who knows how precious those short moments were to Ronaldo, finally back on a football pitch last week in Corinthians’ 2-0 cup win over Itumbiara. After a year spent wrestling with the aftermath of more surgery and rehabilitation, and with the hurried panting of time becoming almost as loud in…
Roman Pavlyuchenko becomes a councillor
Residents of the Russian town of Stavropol obviously do not mind if their local councillors do not take a hands on approach to their job because they have just elected London-based Roman Pavlyuchenko. The Spurs striker received 63 per cent of the vote. While he ought to be getting his hands dirty helping Tottenham to…
Euro 2008 Manager Ratings
We’ve looked at the players, now it’s time to look at the managers involved at Euro 2008 and find out how they got on:
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