NRG Stadium sold out for Gold Cup final
July 6 – Concacaf has announced that today’s 2025 Gold Cup Final at NRG Stadium, Houston, between the United States and Mexico, is sold out.
Women's Euro 2025
Norway dispatch Finland to take control of Group A
Norway 2 Finland 1
July 6 – Norway battled to a hard-fought victory 2-1 victory over Finland in Sion to all but guarantee their place at the top of Group A with one match left to play.
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Exclusive: Top UEFA executive attacks football’s ills
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 3 – Former UEFA general secretary David Taylor (pictured) has attacked football’s spiralling debt and says measures must be implemented to stop the situation getting out of control.
Gazidis warns football must heed the warning signs
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 2 – Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis (pictured) says European football badly needs to heed the warning signs and regulate itself to stop more clubs being plunged into chaos.
Gill breaks silence over United takeover bid
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 2 – Manchester United chief executive David Gill (pictured) insisted Wednesday that the club’s controversial American owners would remain in control long-term despite a growing protest movement to force them out.
Mihir Bose: “Who has been the greatest manager in British football?”
Just hours before Sir Alex Ferguson won yet another trophy, when Manchester United lifted the Carling Cup beating Aston Villa, there was a very interesting programme on ESPN Classic.
What European football needs to learn from Charles Dickens
By David Owen
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”
Portsmouth plunged into administration
By Andrew Warshaw
February 26 – Football history was made for all the wrong reasons today when Portsmouth, with debts of about £60 millon, became the first English Premier League club to enter administration.
FIFA reported to approve Europe-only for 2018
By Andrew Warshaw
February 26 – Non-European nations applying to host the 2018 soccer World Cup have reportedly been told by FIFA they should drop out and concentrate on the 2022 tournament.
Simon Clegg: “Corporate hospitality is an important aspect of the club”
By Mike Rowbottom
February 26 – It was ten years ago that Roy Keane (pictured) made his celebrated remarks about Old Trafford spectators in executive boxes - “they have a few drinks and probably the prawn sandwiches, and they don’t realise what’s going on out on the pitch.”
Ginola joins 2018 Caribbean venture
By Andrew Warshaw
February 25 – David Ginola kicks off his new role as an ambassador for England’s 2018 World Cup bid by accompanying bid officials to the Caribbean football union Congress this weekend.
Japan appoints three new World Cup bid ambassadors
By David Owen
February 25 - The Japan 2018-2-22 World Cup bid has added three more players to its team of ambassadors.
Warner: South Africa World Cup will break even
By David Owen
February 24 – Jack Warner (pictured) has entered the debate about the wisdom of staging the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, telling insideworldfootball in an exclusive interview that it was “inconceivable” that South Africa could put on as financially successful a tournament as Germany.
Will the 2010 World Cup Finals change lives in South Africa?
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By David Owen
Passion. Colour. Excitement. And, of course, cash.
The World Cup will bring all of these to South Africa next June, but will it change the lives of people like Cynthia in any meaningful way?
Exclusive: Munich 2018 to be promoted by Bundesliga
By Duncan Mackay in Vancouver
February 23 – The Bundesliga, the world’s most popular football league, is to back Munich’s bid to host the 2018 Olympics and Paralympics, it was announced at a special ceremony here tonight.
Mihir Bose: The football child has much to learn from the Olympic parent
The child outstripping the father in any sphere of life is always news.
Olympic Games always bring up this comparison for, after all, it was the success of the 1924 Olympic football tournament that prompted the French to organise a football World Cup for professional players.
Euro 2016 candidates present bid books
By Andrew Warshaw
February 23 – France, Turkey and Italy have formally handed over their bids to UEFA as the race to stage the 2016 European Championships reached a crucial stage.