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Domenech blocked replay
Dublin :: Ireland | about 2 hours ago
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Raymond Domenech was the sole obstacle to Ireland 's game against France being replayed, the Sunday Independent has learned. Domenech refused to allow the French Football Federation to agree to a replay of France's game against Ireland despite the overwhelming...
Tags: Ireland, Raymond Domenech, FIFA, FAI, French Football Federation, France, FFF, Irish, Dublin, Martin Hansson, Domenech, allnews
U.S. team's World Cup success depends on luck of draw
Cape Town :: South Africa | about 8 hours ago
Credibility Take Landon Donovan out of the U.S. national team and what you have left is a corpse...That has been proved in the past and it was proved yet again in the team's final two matches of 2009 -- a limp performance in a 1-0 loss to Slovakia and a lackluster...
Tags: U.S, South Africa, Landon Donovan, FIFA, world cup, Brazil, Cape Town, FIFA World Cup qualification, United States men's national soccer team, Canada men's national soccer team, FIFA World Cup, Bob Bradley, allnews
The Last Word: Our moral righteousness is as pathetic as cheating
Northampton :: United Kingdom | about 11 hours ago
Credibility Yes, in the age-old process of football grieving, pity had given way to anger which had now given way to optimism. The sport would take something positive out of the incident; our tears would have had their purpose, all that pain we suffered would not...
Tags: Henry, Mr Fifa, henry handle, Georgians, footballing associate, Football Association of Ireland, United Kingdom, Northampton, FIFA World Cup, Association football, FIFA, Ball games, Martin Hansson, Football, allnews
Inside Lines: Seconds out! Cornerman gets KO'd as McCracken cracks whip
Belfast :: United Kingdom | about 11 hours ago
Credibility Head coach Kelvyn Travis has left the British Amateur Boxing Association in another major upheaval following the appointment as performance director of top pro trainer Robert McCracken, the former middleweight title contender who mentors world champion...
Tags: Kelvyn Travis, Irish Football Association, world cup, Robert McCracken, United Kingdom, Belfast, Manchester United F.C., Alex Ferguson, FIFA, McCracken, FIFA World Cup, Carl Froch, allnews
England set to be in top-eight
Lisbon :: Portugal | about 12 hours ago
Credibility England appear certain to be one of the eight seeded nations at the World Cup draw on December 4, after it was announced Friday that the most recent Fifa rankings would not be taken into account. The 0-1 friendly defeat by Brazil last weekend meant that...
Tags: England, France, Portugal, Lisbon, FIFA World Cup, Playoffs, FIFA, FIFA World Cup seeding, Football (soccer) terminology, Fabio Capello, FIFA World Rankings, allnews
BVI, USVI soccer to benefit from new FIFA initiative --
Zurich :: Switzerland | about 14 hours ago
Credibility Harold Taylor and Dick Howard were in the territory last week meeting with BVI Football Association officials about the initiative that will kick off with a Feb. 5-7 community course. Zurich, Switzerland, during a weeklong meeting that wraps up on Sunday.
Tags: Tortola Sports Club, BVI Football Association, BVI Half-Marathon, USVI, FIFA, Dick Howard, fifa initiative, Africa, Switzerland, Zurich, British Virgin Islands, CONCACAF, allnews
Galaxy Wins MLS Cup … in FIFA 10
the word many Europeans use to describe a player taking a dive on the field — has become the bane of the game (or at least it was until Thierry Henry’s Hand of Gaul last Wednesday). But a computer simulation that purports to predict,...
Tags: Sacha Kljestan, Landon Donovan, Edson Buddle, Sam Cooper, Javier Morales, galaxy wins, Los Angeles Galaxy, allnews, MLS Cup, Speculator, Major League Soccer, Cristiano Ronaldo, Soccer in Canada, Lionel Messi, Kak, Five, Ronaldo, Blanco Kljestan, Salt, Frank Lampard, Nick Rimando, FIFA, Thierry Henry
no point looking for heads to roll
Stade :: Germany | 1 day ago
Credibility You know it's time to worry when grief escalates to that eccentric condition of invoking a moral imperative...Even the French were coming over misty-eyed and wistful, as if they'd been found jimmying a church collection box.
Tags: Thierry Henry, Richard Dunne, FIFA, Stade de France, Arsene Wenger, Parisian, Germany, Stade, Wenger, allnews, Arsￃﾨne Wenger
FAI 'disappointed' over French replay refusal
Cape Town :: South Africa | 1 day ago
Credibility French captain Thierry Henry, whose double handball led to William Gallas’s deciding goal at the Stade de France, said that a replay would be “ the fairest option”, a comment that Ireland skipper Robbie Keane called courageous, before calling on the FFF...
Tags: Thierry Henry, world cup, Stade de France, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, Cape Town, Penalty shootout, Roy Keane, Michel Platini, Ice hockey, FIFA World Cup, FIFA 100, Football (soccer) terminology, William Gallas, allnews, Dennis Bergkamp, Robert Pirￃﾨs, Arsenal Stadium, Arsￃﾨne Wenger, football, Diego Maradona, Team handball, Ball games, Argentina v England, UEFA Champions League Final, Arsenal F.C., Peter Shilton, Association football, FIFA, Football in France, Association football in the Republic of Ireland, Football Association of Ireland, Irish Football Association
Iraqi MPs to meet Sunday to break electoral law deadlock
Baghdad :: Iraq | 1 day ago
Credibility Iraqi MPs will meet again on Sunday to try to break the deadlock on a stalled electoral law, which has left the country's planned January general election in doubt. "The vote is postponed until tomorrow," parliament speaker Iyad al-Samarrai told reporters...
Tags: Iraqi Football Association, olympic committee, FIFA, Iraq, Baghdad, Saddam Hussein, Politics, Iraq national football team, Hussein Saeed, allnews, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards, Football Association of Ireland, Sport in Iraq, Iraq Football Association, Blatter, and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Sepp Blatter
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