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April 18, 2011May 20, 2023

Swiss journalists held in Qatar without charge

AFP reported this morning that the reporter and his cameraman from the Swiss station RTS were released at the weekend after being fined and held for 1…

July 8, 2010July 9, 2010

Bob Millward, AP’s London sports writer, has died

Bob Millward, Associated Press’s London-based sports writer, died today in Johannesburg. He was 58.…

July 8, 2010July 8, 2010

Ingle shows us all how to pick World Cup winners

Even Facebook could not help NORMAN GILLER correctly predict the World Cup finallists. He would have been better off with Paul the Octopus. But, for d…

July 2, 2010July 2, 2010

World Cup security alert: cheese roll banned

Officiousness is the bane of many a sports hack’s life, but surely few of us have encountered anything quite as petty* as the World Cup security…

June 23, 2010June 23, 2010

BBC inquiry into lacklustre Capello interview

An internal inquiry has begun at the BBC over its lacklustre interview with England manager Fabio Capello ahead of today’s crunch World Cup grou…

June 20, 2010June 20, 2010

Broadcasters’ Capello coverage is quick to criticise

PHILIP BARKER reviews the weekend TV, radio and newspaper coverage of England’s World Cup performances Radio5Live’s Mark Pougatch put it aptly…

June 20, 2010June 20, 2010

What are your worst England performances?

After Friday night’s dire performance in the World Cup group game against Algeria, PHILIP BARKER suggests 10 of the worst performances by an Eng…

June 11, 2010June 11, 2010

It’s official: put your shirts on Spain

Fabio Capello is one of the calmest of managers, says NORMAN GILLER. But the pressure of the World Cup can make even the coolest of coaches boil The p…

June 9, 2010June 9, 2010

Butcher tells Rooney to keep flag, not temper, flying

Fleet Street’s Old Cock Tavern is already bedecked in the flags of all the competing nations at the 2010 World Cup. But what has impressed forme…