ZURICH: A disappointing result was revealed today in England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup where only 2 of the 22 man FIFA committee voted in England’s favour. The World Cup bids were reviewed in Zurich and despite £15 million invested in the bid and the obvious benefits for a having the World Cup [...]
LONDON: England’s application to hold the 2018 World Cup was still ongoing notwithstanding allegations of fraud made by the BBC Panorama programme last night against FIFA officials. David Beckham, Prince Andrew and the British Prime Minister David Cameron are in Zurich today to put forward Britain’s case to host the World Cup to FIFA Officials [...]
LONDON: Fabio Cappello, the England Football coach has issued an alcohol warning to his players ahead of the friendly against France on Wednesday night. There will be no alcoholic drinks available for players when they attend the Watford training camp on Sunday and drinking alcoholic drinks will be forbidden. Capello has been a staunch supporter [...]
LONDON: Following on from the successful change to professional soccer for women in the United States, the UK will have its first professional football league set up for women in 2011.The popularity of women’s football has been steadily increasing in the UK where there is now over a million girls signed up for football and [...]
Injury prevention within professional football now has greater significance due to the costs associated with injured footballers not playing due to a muscle strains. Most football injuries can be attributed to poor physical preparation and conditioning as well as sudden increases in physical loads. A small percentage of football injuries can be due to impact [...]
LONDON: Long distance running is both a battle of the mind and the body and runners attempting to beat previous marathon scores can be in danger of ‘hitting the wall’ before they make the finish line. This is especially so when runners try to beat famous cut off times such as the magic ‘under three [...]
PORTSMOUTH: The stricken football club Portsmouth FC may have to fold this weekend after possibly playing their last match in the Championship against Hull. The club were relegated from the Premiership last season after being deducted points 9 pts for going into administration. Surprisingly the club went on to play in the 2010 FA Cup [...]
MANCHESTER: In a dramatic turn of events Wayne Rooney signed a new five year contract with Manchester Utd despite making it apparent he wanted to leave. Nobody is sure of the reason for the quick turn around but there has been a lot of angry criticism of Wayne Rooney from many quarters including the faithful [...]
MANCHESTER: The future of Man Utd’s star player Wayne Rooney is still uncertain which coincides with the turmoil with the clubs finances. The influential player has still yet to sign a new contract which may be due to the complexity of top football player’s contracts which involve lawyers, the player’s agent and club officials. Wayne [...]
NEW DELHI: Tom Daley produced the perfect dive scoring 10′s from all the judges to grab the Commonwealth gold from the Olympic Champion Matt Mitcham who was leading coming into the final dive. The standoff between the two divers was as close as it gets producing a scintillating finale. The 10m dive board competition had [...]
