Brazil officially qualified for World Cup 2010 tonight, and did it by beating rivals Argentina 3-1. In Argentina. Luis Fabiano bagged two goals, Luisao got the other, Jesus Datolo scored for...

Russian fans are being told to drink whisky when they visit Wales for a World Cup qualifier on September 9th, to prevent them picking up the H1N1 virus (codename: swine flu). The Russian supporters association is going against the advice of the Russ...

USA fans will claim that this was only their B team/second string and it was only the Gold Cup anyway. They can even claim that Mexico were lucky to win that penalty kick for the first goal. And they’ll definitely have a point. But Mexico fans...

It was but a mere friendly against a walkover opponent, but in terms of symbolism it was on par with a World Cup final. More than six years after its last international game in Baghdad - and with an Asian trophy in its cabinet since then - Iraq retur...

If you’ve taken to perusing the interwebs for football news with your morning coffee the last couple days, you’ve undoubtedly read about he praise over South Africa’s handling of the Confederations Cup. And in nearly all respects, t...

The seedings for the World Cup draw were announced today and there were a couple of surprises. Namely the news that the great Fabio Capello has effectively wiped Euro 2008 from statistical history and that France will need a small miracle not to be...

There’s been a lot of crazy talk about World Cup qualification this week. Including Ireland putting in an impressively optimistic request to go to South Africa as a 33rd team. A request FIFA quite sensibly denied, for all kinds of very obvious...

Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue, And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. There’s a pot of dreams at the end of this one.

It never happened. Swear. One of these is recent. One of these is not so recent. Can you spot the difference? Presumably next week Gillette will amend the commercial further to take off Tiger Woods’ arms and legs, such to insinuate that he’s never...

The internets are currently overflowing with World Cup 2010 mock draws and pretend groups of death right now. But don’t get confused. The draw for the eight groups of World Cup 2010 groups has not happened yet, and will not happen until Friday, ...