World Cup 2010
The 2010 FIFA World Cup is the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international association football tournament, which is being held in South Africa. This is the first time the finals of the tournament have been staged in an African host nation. The World Cup is held every four years; the previous tournament was held in Germany, while the 2014 finals will be hosted by Brazil.
The finals began on 11 June with the group stage, in which the 32 qualifying teams played in round-robin groups of four teams for points, with the top two teams in each group proceeding. These 16 teams advanced to the knockout stage beginning on 26 June, in which games level after normal time are settled using extra time and, if necessary, a penalty shootout, up to and including the World Cup Final, scheduled for 11 July at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg. The tournament will be the first ever World Cup held outside Europe to be won by a European side and the final, between the Netherlands and Spain, will be between two teams that have never won the World Cup before.
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IT should be the greatest football show on earth but the A-listers have not risen to the occasion. Stuart Rayner asks how much the Premier League is to blame.Read
AS English football licks its wounds after a humiliating World Cup performance, Bolo Zenden has argued it is about time they remembered size does not matter, writes LUKE EDWARDS.Read
WHEN Fabio Capello took to the stage for his final World Cup press conference in Rustenburg yesterday, he looked every bit the Emperor stripped naked.Read
IT may have been a linesman who helped England win the World Cup in 1966, but not even the most partisan England fan could claim it was a linesman who dumped them out in 2010.Read
THE team which wins the World Cup normally starts badly and gets better. England started badly, tripped, stumbled and fell flat on their face with their pants around their ankles for the whole world to see.Read
THE North East will become an honorary suburb of South Africa tomorrow as England makes its latest bid for World Cup glory.Read
TONY Blair gave the England team a simple message today: "Please win."Read
MANY people define work as being wedged in a warehouse willing the minutes away. So how exactly is this a break?Read
IT seems the fortunes of England’s World Cup football team are about to take a change for the better.Read
AS flat as the top of Table Mountain. That just about summed up the atmosphere in the North East after England’s disappointing draw with Algeria last night.Read
