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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 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…

June 4, 2010June 10, 2010

Facebook helps to write this World Cup whowunit

NORMAN GILLER is editing and publishing a unique, instant book on the 2010 World Cup, using the comments and contributions of hundreds of football fol…

June 1, 2010June 1, 2010

Triumph for Twitter over naming of England squad

Without doubt, today’s England World Cup squad announcement was a triumph not for Fabio Capello, but for Twitter, which was carrying pretty accurate…

May 27, 2010June 6, 2011

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 av…

May 18, 2010May 18, 2010

Lineker quits MoS column over Triesman story

Former England captain and BBC Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker has quit his column in the Mail on Sunday in protest against Sunday’s Lor…

May 14, 2010May 12, 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 …

May 13, 2010May 13, 2010