By Richard Farley, on October 19th, 2009
This morning in Zürich, FIFA drew that UEFA’s top eight group runners-up into the four two-legged ties which will determine the final European participants in the 2010 World Cup.
Those match-ups are:
Republic of Ireland vs. France
Portugal vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina
Greece vs. Ukraine
Russia vs. Slovenia
The draw had the eight teams broken into two tops, with the top [...]
By Richard Farley, on October 7th, 2009
Portugal and Hungary each have 13 points, trailing Sweden by two for UEFA Group 1’s playoff spot (and Denmark by five for first place). Each team is hoping Denmark beats Sweden in Copenhagen, allowing Saturday’s winner in Lisbon to vault into the qualifying spot. The loser would stay at thirteen points and have [...]
By Ryan Bending, on September 7th, 2009
If you’re the kind of football fan who’s going to come here and read 500 words on Burkina Faso (A country I’m pretty sure RF made up), you’ve already seen much discussion on diving in the English game, most notably recent dives by Eduardo and Wayne Rooney. As a newcomer to the game, it was [...]
By Richard Farley, on August 25th, 2009
I’d obvious Manchester United will and does miss Cristiano Ronaldo. Greatly. We all knew they would. They knew they would.
More interesting is documenting how they’ll miss him.
On the pitch, United’s a bit of a mess right now. They’ve built their club around Wayne Rooney, and it’s unclear that’s a good idea. [...]