the year in photos
in 2010, photos change, words not so much.
MLS Superdraft breakdown - you know you’re not getting that here. But every year the draft marks the beginning of a new soccer season. Beyond the MLS hot stove, it means the first USMNT game of the new year is around the corner, with the Gold Cup just...
World Cup Final – LIVE
The moment that we have all been waiting for since four years ago has finally arrived. Another World Cup final will be in the books by the time today comes to a close. Premiership Talk will be amidst all the action, providing LIVE play-by-play coverage of the mouth-watering clash between Holland and European champions Spain.
Although the showpiece...
van Marwijk ready to grind it out
In contrast with his Spanish counterpart Vicente Del Bosque, Holland coach Bert van Marwijk believes that playing attractive football is not the only way to emerge from Sunday’s World Cup final as the winner. The Dutch have finally lived up to their potential this summer after sufferring from disappointing exits in previous FIFA competitions. However,...
World Cup final live — Spain 1 Dutch 0 – how it happened
We're following every World Cup match live. Join us for instant updates, insight and analysis from our team of reporters and the best pictures anywhere on the web.
World Cup 2010: a view from Soweto
Sowetans have embraced the World Cup as passionately as anyone in South Africa, but why has the World Cup failed to embrace the country's most famous township, asks BBC World Service presenter Ros AtkinsIn the 12 months I lived in Johannesburg during t...
World Cup 2010: last-minute deals to see England on Sunday
England are through! And it's not too late to watch them play in Bloemfontein on Sunday. Here are the best packages, hotels and flightsMatch packagesThomas Cook (+44(0)20 8739 2360, thomascooksport.com) has five nights' accommodation at Entabeni Safari...
Shay’ ivuvuzela, or not
Fans from around the world have embraced this trumpet and are all merrily blowing away at the stadiums.
the opener
caught in the grip of the (soccer) city madness
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A new Azteca. That’s what it felt like–the beehive atmosphere, the passion, the patriotism–albeit without the built-in American worry of being drenched with beer and who knows w...
It’s all kicking off in Johannesburg: World Cup city guide
Find Jo'burg's liveliest sports bars, best-loved restaurants, a dose of nightlife and dash of culture in our top 10 extract from the new Hedonist's city guideWhere to stayThe QuatermainSlap bang in the middle of Sandton, the Quatermain is a more charmi...
Joburg goes crazy for Bafana Bafana
Johannesburg was party town as Bafana Bafana passed through the streets of Sandton on an open topped bus and the crowd joined in, in the usual noisy style.
Welcome aboard the Gautrain, Africa’s first high-speed urban train
South Africa unveils rail link that will transport World Cup fans into Johannesburg at speeds of up to 100mphAt less than 12.5 miles (20km), it has a long way to go to realise Cecil Rhodes's dream of a Cape-to-Cairo railway, but at least it's a start.T...
Symbolic moment as rugby comes to black township of Soweto
On Saturday, the citadel of black South African football, the Orlando Stadium in Soweto, plays host to a Super 14 rugby match involving the Blue Bulls, the team so beloved by the white Afrikaaners. For most of the whites it will be their first trip anywhere near Soweto.
