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Sepp Blatter quoted by the Guardian on the World Cup hosting fallout: "I really sense in some reactions a bit of the arrogance of the western world of Christian background. Some simply can't bear it if others get a chance for a change," Blatter told the Swiss weekly magazine Weltwoche. "What...

England only got 2 votes and so was eliminated in the first round. Even Belgium/The Netherlands got more votes which is just embarrassing. So there really was considerable anti-English sentiment. (The Spanish were so crass they even alluded to English press coverage in their formal...

Fed beat Nadal on Sunday in only their second match all year. So much for Federer's decline!

Less than a day before the decision English fans throw flares and invade the pitch after a Carling Cup match: Crowd violence following match Anyone looking for another excuse to vote against England just found one.

For the record I'm hoping England get it for 2018 and Australia for 2022. Qatar is favourite for 2022. I don't know how they would go about playing the matches in the summer desert heat but I'm guessing Arab oil money has something to do with Qatar's sudden popularity with FIFA.

As most soccer fans know the vote on who will host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups will be held on Thursday 2 December. The USA is one of the front runners for 2022. The US bid's honorary committee chairman is Bill Clinton and it is supported by Obama and all celebrities like Spike Lee. Today...

French players still want their bonuses for the World Cup! LinkEdited by: Matra1

He had another great match against Inter today. He set up two of Tottenham's goals in a 3-1 win destroying Brazilian back Maicon in the process.

Caste whore Greg Brady on the FAN 590 in Canada joked that all the Patriots have now is "Wes Welker, a little white dude running around", (as he put it) but without Moss they had no one to go deep to for the big play.

Titus Gamble, Sunderland defender, arrested on suspicion of rape. Sunderland crisis

Part of the motivation behind holding the WC in South Africa was to create more infrastructure for a stable league. FIFA have also talked about helping other African countries do the same. This might be won of those occasions when it would be a good thing for us if African 'empowerment'...

John McEnroe is of the opinion that the men's final should go prime time like the ladies. That would mess up European TV ratings. Men's tennis is much bigger there than in the US. I've always thought they should just start the Open a week earlier. That way they avoid the NFL and the...

I switched on the CBS half time show for the first time in a couple of years and what did I hear? Shannon Sharpe making fun of Tim Tebow's first play - a one yard gain. Sharpe, laughing like a hyena, said something like (I'm quoting from memory) "let me show you how it's done Tim" then showed...

That might be a career defining victory for Djokovic. Fed beat him the last three US Opens but today Djokovic came through even overcoming two match points. He was pure steel.

She dispatched both sisters last year, and now has done it again to Venus And two years ago another Belgian Justine Henin dispatched both Williams sisters on her way to the title. If they keep this up Belgians are going to get a reputation for racism.

Clijsters comes from a set down to beat Venus Williams. Serena and her father, wearing a shirt saying "Jehovah is my God", were both in attendance.

Djokovic came back and won the first set in a tie-break. He handled the windy conditions better than Monfils to win the second. Now even Chris Fowler is brutally attacking Monfils for his "lack of professionalism" for giving away another point on a "showtime shot"! When you fall out of love with...

Monfils goes for a ridiculous "tweenerish" shot when he did not need to. The ball was going towards him. He was not running back to retrieve it. I'm glad Brad Gilbert and Darren Cahill both criticised him for trying to be on the highlight reels rather than concentrating on what is practical to...

Mary Jo Fernandez: "He's so charismatic, Monfils, so athletic". It's just incredible. Even Djokovic said Monfils was "athletic" the other day. (He was probably just repeating what everyone else was saying). It's starting to remind me of Martin Luther King. Every time his name is said in the...

I see Belgium lost yet again, this time away to Turkey and France finally managed to win a match! Scotland barely beat Liechtenstein (population 35,000). If they keep playing this way there'll be demands for a more diverse Scottish line-up!

Verdasco v Ferrer looked like one of the great matches of the year. Unfortunately ESPN preferred Venus Williams followed by another match with Kim Clijsters. I like Kim but I'm tired of the constant references by the commentators to her being a mother and how difficult it must be to be a mother...

He just said it again! Courier on Monfils: "He is the best pure athlete tennis has ever seen".

Despite following English soccer since the late 1970s I'd never seen that Southampton goal before. Never have I seen it in the hundreds of hours of watching football coverage on BBC, ITV, and other channels. If that had been scored by one of the Big Four (Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, ManU) we'd...

Looks like we've found another Caste supporter: Jim Courier. He claims Gael Monfils, the "Frenchman", is the "greatest athlete" to ever play the game of tennis.

Growing up, Belgium was one of my favourite national sides, but these days they have sunk to an ugly low, fielding 3 blacks and a Moroccan in their starting lineup. To top things off, two more blacks were on the bench... A couple of months my uncle (from England) and I were talking about the...