Gold Cup 2025

Mexico secure final slot on a pulsating San Jose evening

Mexico 1 Honduras 0

July 2 – The question on the lips of pundits and fans at Levi Stadium, Santa Clara, was “would tonight be business as usual or unusual business?” as Mexico and Honduras met for the right to face the United States in the Concacaf Gold Cup Final on Sunday in Houston.

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Women's Euro 2025

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DateGroup    VenueKick off (local)
July 2Grp ASwitzerland12NorwayBasel, St-Jakon Park9pm
July 2Grp AIceland01FinlandThun, Arena Thun6pm
July 3Grp BSpain50PortugalBern, Stadium Wankdorf9pm
July 3Grp BBelgium01
ItalySion, Stade de Tourbillon6pm
July 4Grp CGermany--PolandSt Gallen, Arena St Gallen9pm
July 4Grp CDenmark--SwedenStade de Genève6pm
July 5Grp DFrance--EnglandStadion Letzigrund, Zurich9pm
July 5Grp DWales--NetherlandsAllmend Stadion, Lucern6pm
July 6Grp ASwitzerland--IcelandStadion Wankdorf, Bern9pm
July 6Grp ANorway--FinlandStade de Touillon, Sion6pm
July 7Grp BPortugal--ItalyStade de Genève, Geneva9pm
July 7Grp BSpain--BelgiumArena Thun6pm
July 8Grp CGermany--DenmarkSt Jakob Park, Basel6pm
July 8Grp CPoland--SwedenAllmend Stadion, Lucerne9pm
July 9Grp DEngland--NetherlandsStadion Letzigrund, Zurich6pm
July 9Grp DFrance--WalesArena St Gallen9pm
July 10Grp AFinland--SwitzerlandStade de Genève, Geneva9pm
July 10Grp ANorway--IcelandArena Thun9pm
July 11Grp BItaly--SpainStadium Wankdorf, Bern9pm
July 11Grp BPortugal--BelgiumStade de Touillon, Sion9pm
July 12Grp CSweden --GermanyStadion Letzigrund, Zurich9pm
July 12Grp CPoland--DenmarkAllmend Stadion, Lucerne9pm
July 13Grp DNetherlands--FranceSt Jakob Park, Basel9pm
July 13Grp DEngland--WalesArena St Gallen9pm
July 16QF1Winner Grp A--R-Up Grp BStade de Genève, Geneva9pm
July 17QF2Winner Grp C--R-Uo Grp DStadion Letzigrund, Zurich9pm
July 18QF3Winner Grp B--R-Up Grp AStadion Wankdorff, Bern9pm
July 19QF4Winner Grp D--R-Up Grp CSt Jakob Park, Basel9pm
July 2Semi-finalWinner QF1--Winner QF42Stade de Genève, Geneva9pm
July 2Semi-finalWinner QF3--Winner QF4Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich9pm
July 7 FinalTBA--TBASt Jakob Park, Basel6.00pm

David Owen: Blatter’s pledge for World Cup vote reform is clever but will it change anything?

David Owen(3)

It would have been hard for the candidates in FIFA’s Presidential election to avoid the subject of World Cup vote reform.

And in fairness to Joseph Blatter, his latest proposals came as a direct response to an interviewer’s question.

Nonetheless, several points need to be made about the FIFA President’s “positive solution” for preventing a repetition of the “uncomfortable experience I had here in Zurich on 2 December”.

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Blaquart suspended over French quota row

Blaquart

By David Gold

April 30 – François Blaquart, the National Technical Director of the French Football Federation (FFF), has been suspended over plans to implement a quota restricting the number of black and north African players in French youth academies.

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Alan Hubbard: Cameron must stick to his guns as Robertson comes under fire from the football lobby

ALAN HUBBARD PLEASE USE THIS ONE(1)

David Cameron may bold enough to bomb Colonel Gaddafi but has he got the bottle to take on his own country’s football lobby?

I raise the question because of growing concern that the same back-stabbing cabal which did for Kate Hoey as Labour’s sports minister ten years ago apparently has it in for present Tory incumbent Hugh Robertson.

There is no doubt that the long knives are out for the minister,

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