By Nick Harris 30 June 2010 With all the ratings data now available from the USA’s weekend defeat to Ghana, it has been confirmed that the match was the most-watched football game in American TV history. It drew an average audience of 19.4m, with almost 15m watching on ABC (a figure known soon afterwards), plus […]
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JONNIE BAKER: ‘For one hideous reason I’m just not enjoying the World Cup: the commentary. (But then I do live in Alpine Austria)’
By Jonnie Baker 18 June 2010 In a little over a month I shall reach the impressive age of 35. A fine age for any thrusting young buck to attain, I’m sure you’ll agree. Let’s face it, were we to be enjoying this World Cup in the early 19th Century, I’d most likely have been […]
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IPL ringmaster Lalit Modi submits third and final reply to ‘show cause’ notices with swipe at snipers
By Nick Harris 15 June 2010 Lalit Modi, the suspended chairman and commissioner of the Indian Premier League, finished his response to third “show cause” notice against him last night and submitted it to the relevant authorities in India via email from London today. Modi is accused of a variety of misdemeanours and improper conduct […]
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Swiss bankers on the football fiddle as players look to Spain
By Keira Daley 15 June 2010 As Switzerland prepare to open their World Cup campaign tomorrow in Durban, against the favourites Spain, some lucky compatriots back home – workers in a Swiss bank – are benefitting from a unique World Cup table football room (see pictures below). The identity of the specific bank cannot be […]
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WORLD CUP 2010: Portugal punching above weight, Japan and USA ailing, England doing what resources suggest
By Brian Sears 11 June 2010 Football is a global game, arguably the only one, but of course there are some areas of the world that love it and embrace it more than others. If that weren’t the case, and nations loved the beautiful game in equal measure and played it in equal measure, then […]
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JONNIE BAKER: New Zealand – what are you doing here? Really? Come on now, we’ve all had a good drink and we can all take a joke, but seriously, what’s going on?
By Jonnie Baker 10 June 2010 So then, where were we? The World Cup is where we were, second only to Christmas in the things I look forward to with an almost preternatural enthusiasm. And following my laser-like forecasting of the race for fourth I am prepared, in my position as a football expert, to […]
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FIXED: The truth in pictures about England and the USA at the World Cup
By Nick Harris 8 June 2010 Along with the many 2010 World Cup articles about the first match in Group C – between England and the USA on Saturday – there have been, and will be, plenty of references to the famous, fabulous occasion when the USA beat England 1-0 at the 1950 World Cup. No […]
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Brad Pitt to take starring World Cup role for USA
By Keira Daley 2 June 2010 The Hollywood heart-throb Brad Pitt has today accepted an invitation from the US Soccer Federation to join the board of directors for the USA’s bid to stage the World Cup in 2018 or 2022. The full story is online at the USSS website and the move is sure to […]
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REVEALED: USA’s $20m bonus pot – the biggest in World Cup history
By Nick Harris 2 June 2010 The USA’s World Cup squad will share a bonus pot of more than $20m (£13.8m) if they defy the odds to win the tournament in South Africa this summer. The potential payout is the most lucrative confirmed bonus scheme in the history of the tournament and could net the […]
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A star-spangled saga: from $150 for a glory goal to a bonus pot of $20m
*** By Gary Hopkins 2 June 2010 . The occasion was the ‘Boston Soccer Party’ of 1993, otherwise known as the second fixture in the US Cup, a four-nation international tournament hosted by the US Soccer Federation and featuring the USA, Brazil, England and Germany. This particular match featured the USA against England on 9 […]
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