From Norman Brook, Cape Town Journalists travelling to South Africa for the World Cup next month are invited to contact a Cape Town-based charity and follow in the footsteps of David Beckham to learn more about some important work using football to help orphans and vulnerable young people. I am working with Skillshare International’s Coaching [...]
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News and information for sports journalists covering the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa
27 May
2010
2010
Drawing the line under World Cup books
An essential part of any World Cup build-up is a flood of related book launches. PETER WILSON reviews two of the latest offerings There has been an avalanche of books published to coincide with this summer’s World Cup finals. Most are pretty much standard “how they got there and who are the key players” affairs. [...]
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26 May
2010
2010
Lynam questions ITV’s appointment of Chiles
Des Lynam has openly questioned ITV Sport’s appointment of Adrian Chiles as the channel’s lead presenter ahead of the World Cup in South Africa.
Continue reading →Always with a nose for a story, NORMAN GILLER wonders whether there are any more skeletons waiting in English football’s closet ahead of the tournament in South Africa, as he remembers a time when England managed to lose the World Cup before a ball was kicked in anger Marvellous. You wait 44 years for a [...]
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14 May
2010
2010
World Cup woes for Sir Alf and our Vic
Like all his predecessors over the past 40 years, England manager Fabio Capello, above, has to look to Sir Alf Ramsey for the World Cup standard that England expects. Here, NORMAN GILLER wonders if there is anybody at the FA able to warn Capello of the minefield he is walking with the media over the [...]
Continue reading →Steve Rider has quit as ITV Sport’s main presenter, apparently unhappy at his relegation in the sporting pecking order at the channel following the signing of Adrian Chiles to front ITV’s World Cup coverage. There had been speculation over Rider’s future earlier this week, when it was made known that – before Chiles’s formal arrival [...]
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16 Mar
2010
2010
World Cup Big Brother house seeks fans
Budweiser, one of the sponsors of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, has launched a worldwide search for football fans willing to spend up to a month in a house in Cape Town in a football version of Big Brother.
Continue reading →Andrew Jennings, the reporter who has spent the past 20 years investigating the activities of sports officials at the International Olympic Committee and world football body FIFA, is to criticise newspapers for doing too little investigative journalism in a speech he is to deliver at the University of Stirling later this month.
Continue reading →What has been your most memorable World Cup finals? For many of us of a certain age, Mexico in 1970 remains the finest footballing tournament. PHILIP BARKER explains why It was 40 years ago and on the quality of the football alone, it is still reckoned by many to have been the greatest World Cup [...]
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