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Adebayor in winning return for Togo in qualifying
• Adebayor makes first appearance since attack on team bus• Lebanon shock South Korea and Japan lose in Asian qualifiersEmmanuel Adebayor returned for Togo after an absence of almost two years for a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday but it was Serge G...
Your New World Champions: The DPRK
No one really takes the Unofficial Football World Championships seriously; it’s merely a nice bit of fun. But even with its inherent flaws – the best team ever (as in…ever) is Scotland – no one probably expected the trophy to head to Pyongyang anytime soon. Or ever. But they beat former title holders Japan (Spain...
Tensions run high for Japan v North Korea World Cup qualifier
Both North Korea and Japan will be determined to emerge as winners from an encounter that has always been about far more than footballOne of the fiercest rivalries in international football will be reignited this evening when North Korea play Japan in ...
WikiLeaks cables, day 9: summary of today’s key points
There are no fewer than 251,287 cables from more than 250 US embassies around the world, obtained by WikiLeaks. We present a day-by-day guide to the revelations from the US embassy cables both from the Guardian and its international media partners in t...
Wikileaks: too much information? | Michael White
It's a pity that paranoid regimes in Pyongyang, Tehran, Beijing – or even Riyadh – are likely to become more unco-operative as a result of the leaked US embassy cablesI was wrong to be so sceptical. Today's Wikileaks download reveals that China may...
North Korea aim to improve their attack
• LeBron James returns to Cleveland• Dancing girls spice up St Pauli experienceFive months after North Korea reportedly sent their failed World Cup coach, Kim Jung-hun, to a labour camp and subjected his players to a "six-hour excoriation" for betr...
FIFA Gives 2018 & 2022 Bids The White Glove Treatment
A fickle bunch, these FIFA people, which they sort of need to be at this point in time with allegations flying from every direction.
Their report on each of the bids for 2018 & 2022 has been released, with lots of interesting insights. But no clear indication where the World Cups might go.
Although bland but safe...
Middlesbrough Ladies’ North Korean football tour guarantees place in history
Women's team from Teesside will become first from Britain to play on North Korean soilNorth Korea, the most secretive country on earth, the nation George Bush located on the Axis of Evil, where the flame of Marxism-Leninism still burns strong, will thi...
Jong Tae-Se Is Coming To Europe
The man who took the world by storm in telling the world he would score against all teams in the Group O’Death and staggered them twice with his brazen show of patriotism by blubbering during the national anthem has done what so many do this time every four years: parlayed the World Cup into a...
Not Quite 1966: North Korea ruffle few World Cup feathers
Not Quite 1966: North Korea ruffle few World Cup feathers is a post from: Just Football
Not Quite 1966: North Korea ruffle few World Cup feathers is a post from: Just Football Overview Three games played, three games lost. One goal scored, twelve conceded. Despite a promising start, North Korea’s 2010 World Cup has been ultimately...World Cup Daily: Stylish Spain but boring, boring Brazil
So, we're more than half way through World Cup 2010, and on your latest edition of World Cup Daily, James Richardson, Barry Glendenning and Paolo Bandini look back on the last of the group games and shed a tear for the likes of Switzerland, Honduras, N...
