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USA clinch last four slot with penalty win over Costa Rica

USA 2 Costa Rica 2 (USA win 4-3 on pens)

June 29 – You’d hate to use the word ‘sterile’ to describe a Concacaf Gold Cup quarter-final, but following the drama and passion of Guatemala versus Canada, it all felt a little flat as the United States Men’s National Team (USMNT) and Costa Rica kicked off for the right to face Guatemala in St. Louis. After 90 minutes and the drama of penalty kicks,

Guatemala dump man-down Canada in penalty shoot-out

Mexico find the way to San Jose despite Saudi road blocks

Honduras stun Panama with penalty shoot-out win for spot in semi-finals

Gold Cup’s breakthrough strikers make case for Golden Boot and glory

Panama-Honduras in Glendale and Canada-Guatemala in Minnesota complete Gold Cup quarter final line-up

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Andrew Warshaw: When being English doesn’t mean being born in England

Andrew Warshaw

Just as the summer transfer window slammed shut across Europe, so a far more significant development took place in the English Premier League which has split experts down the middle.

The new eligibility rule, restricting top-flight squads to 25 players throughout the season – of whom at least eight have to be home-grown – is regarded as a long-overdue revolution by those in favour and a dangerously backward step by those against.

The reality is probably somewhere in between.

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FIFA inspectors travel to Portugal to continue tour

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

September 1 – FIFA’s inspectors, led by Chilean Football Federation President Harold Mayne-Nicholls (pictured), have begun looking at the proposed facilities to be used if Portugal’s joint bid to host the 2018 World Cup is successful.

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Rummenigge raises old question of compensation for injured players

By Duncan Mackay in Munich
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

September 1 – Bayern Munich are set to reopen the debate about whether clubs should receive compensation from FIFA and UEFA if its players, like Arjen Robben (pictured), are injured representing their country.

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Spain and Portugal World Cup bid boosted by Mourinho and Ronaldo

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

August 31 – Being chosen to host the 2018 World Cup would cap a perfect year for Spain, the country’s Sports Minister Jamie Lissavetzky admitted today as its joint bid with Portugal rolled out Jose Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo to help give it a boost.

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US World Cup bid signs up AT&T as new sponsor

USA World Cup bid poster

August 31 – AT&T today signed-up as a sponsor of the United States bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.

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Manchester City buck trend as transfer spending dramatically down

By David Owen

August 31 – Gross transfer spending by top-flight football clubs across Europe is down sharply from a year ago, as the global economic crisis takes its toll on the finances of the continent’s biggest sport.

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FIFA inspectors begin tour of Spain and Portugal

August 30 – A delegation of FIFA inspectors, led by Harold Mayne-Nicholls, arrived in Madrid today on the last leg of their European tour of bidders to host the 2018/2022 World Cup.

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FIFA inspectors to visit five US cities

August 30 – Details of the cities and venues the FIFA inspection team will visit when they arrive in the United States next week to evaluate the country’s bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup have been revealed today.

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Platini claims that new rules have avoided “total anarchy”

August 30 – UEFA President Michel Platini claims his governing body’s new rules on spending have ended the “total anarchy” that surrounded player transfers.

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Qatar 2022 supported by National Bank

August 30 – Qatar National Bank (QNB) has today been named the Official Bank of the Qatar 2022 bid to host the World Cup.

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IAAF chief Diack happy with West Ham Stadium solution

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

August 30 -Sebastian Coe’s successful long-running battle to ensure that whoever takes over the Olympic Stadium after London 2012 retains the athletics track has been hailed by Lamine Diack, the President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

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Mihir Bose: England still searching for winning team to bring home 2018 World Cup

Mihir Bose

Just over ten years ago, after a visit to Downing Street of a FIFA delegation not very dissimilar to the one last Monday, Tony Banks, then the Prime Minister’s special envoy to the 2006 World Cup bid, made one of his exuberant comments.

“You know,” he said, “this visit proves that England is the only country that can defeat South Africa for the 2006 World Cup, Germany is out of it. I am now so close to these FIFA members I feel they are joined to the hip to me.”

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Bin Hammam wants to stay as head of Asia and backs Blatter

August 30 – Mohamad Bin Hammam has confirmed he wants to stay on as president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) after next year and will not challenge Sepp Blatter for the leadership of FIFA.

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Blatter wants full-time referees at Brazil World Cup

August 29 – Only full-time professional referees should be used at the next World Cup, in Brazil in 2014, FIFA President Sepp Blatter claimed today.

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James Bond backs England 2018 World Cup bid

August 28 – James Bond star Daniel Craig has become the two millionth supporter of England’s bid to hold the 2018 World Cup, they announced today.