Canada 2-0 El Salvador
June 24 – Fresh from emerging from a Concacaf-imposed timeout, Canadian head coach Jesse Marsch returned to the technical area at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, knowing any more misbehaviour would send him back to the naughty room. He needn’t have worried as their opponents El Salvador simply imploded in a red mist.
July 4 – Pressure is growing on FIFA Executive Committee member Vitaly Mutko (pictured) to resign as Russia’s Sports Minister after it emerged that he claimed expenses for the equivalent of five breakfasts a day while he was attending the Olympics in Vancouver earlier this year, where the team had its worst ever performance.
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By Duncan Mackay in London
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
July 4 – England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup could fail because FIFA hates the fact that the sport in this country is “poisoned” by money, the former Culture Secretary Andy Burnham (pictured) has claimed.
July 4 – Additional tickets for the remaining four World Cup matches, including the final at Soccer City in Johannesburg next Sunday (July 11), have gone on sale today, FIFA has announced.
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July 3 – The United States have still not made a decision about whether to abandon its campaign to host the 2018 World Cup and instead concentrate all its efforts on 2022, the bid leader Sunil Gulati has claimed.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
July 3 – Former Sports Minister Richard Caborn has put himself forward to replace Lord Triesman as the chairman of the Football Association.
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By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
July 3 – Sepp Blatter has apologised privately to the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) for the way in which he handled the controversy over Thierry Henry’ handball that knocked them out of the World Cup.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
July 3 – Australian World Cup 2022 officials are set to take legal action after the Government cleared them of abusing public funds in their campaign.
By Tom Degun
July 2 – England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup remains the strongest candidate despite the national team’s disastrous performance in South Africa, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has claimed.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
July 2 – FIFA Executive Committee Vitaly Mutko is again under pressure to resign as Russia’s Sports Minister after a damning Government report into the country’s poor performance at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver earlier this year revealed that his hotel suite during the Games cost $1,500 (£986) a night.
July 2 – Irish Football Association President Raymond Kennedy (pictured centered) and his deputy David Martin are on the verge of being forced to resign from their posts as the top two leaders in Northern Ireland football only two weeks after being re-elected unopposed.
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“On the other side of that roundabout, there will be goats by the side of the road.”
Few places better illustrate the vast wealth disparities that still exist in South Africa today than Alexandria.
July 2 – FIFA have given the Nigerian Government until Monday (July 5) to rescind its withdrawal of the country’s national teams from competition or face suspension.
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July 1 – BT today launched a package allowing its customer to view Sky Sports from as little as £6.99 ($10.62) a month on top of the basic monthly subscription.
July 1 – Jack Warner (pictured), the FIFA vice-president, is set to miss the World Cup final at Soccer City in Johannesburg later this month because he will be running Trinidad and Tobago.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
June 30 – Ben Buckley, chief executive of Football Federation Australia (FFA), has claimed bidding for the World Cup is not for the naive as FIFA announced they were launching an investigation into claims they had broken ethics rules.