World Cup

England World Cup players are set to beat their rivals out of sight in South Africa when it comes to costly hotel comfort.

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney's domestic season is over, as he struggles to overcome two separate injuries just weeks before the World Cup. Rooney missed Saturday's 3-1 victory over Tottenham after damaging a gluteal muscle in his backside, and is also carrying an ankle injury suffered during the Champions League game against Bayern Munich.

Just three months after telling Australia and other non-European nations to forget about bidding for the 2018 finals, the FIFA president said he believes Qatar could become the first Arab country to stage the sport's biggest event in 2022.

In the World Cup, play can find itself to become even more chippy than usual, but in a Round of 16 match in the 2006 World Cup, it got out of control.

Gary Lineker is facing his own match of the day... his wife is signing up as a rival World Cup pundit.

It might be the closest you'll come to being at the World Cup in South Africa this summer.

Leeds v WORCESTER HEADINGLEY, 3PM NEIL BACK says saving Leeds from the drop would be a bigger personal achievement than when he won the World Cup in 2003.

E dson Buddle certainly has a World Cup-worthy name, and in the next few weeks, U.S. coach Bob Bradley will reveal whether he believes Buddle has a World Cup-worthy game.

It is after games like yesterday's that Arsenal fans realise how important captain Cesc Fabregas is in midfield.

Dust off the habeas corpus, Chicago--company's coming.

Lucas Barrios boosted his World Cup chances with a hat-trick for Borussia Dortmund on Saturday, though it is unclear whether he will line-up for Argentina or Paraguay.

Sepp Blatter, president of world soccer's governing body, FIFA, has made a career and built his power base by courting the game's emerging nations.

Chelsea's Michael Essien may sacrifice playing for Ghana at the World Cup for the sake of the rest of his career.

South Africa's World Cup exhibition against China next week has been called off because of the recent volcanic ash eruptions over Europe.

Drag-flicker Sandeep Singh and strikers Prabhjot Singh and Deepak Thakur were on Saturday dropped from the 18-member Indian squad for the Azlan Shah Cup in Ipoh, Malaysia as selectors chose to infuse new blood in the side.

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gunmen have stolen hundreds of thousands of stickers for World Cup photo albums.

Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo could finish the World Cup wearing a Colombian white gold ring as the most valuable player in South Africa.

South Africa will host the 2010 World Cup in less than 60 days, a first for the African continent.