West Ham have been priced out of a move to London's 2012 Olympic Stadium after it was revealed the plan could cost as much as £400million. The club had hoped that they could move to the Stratford-based stadium after the Games but they have been told that it would cost far too much for that to [...] Click to continue reading...

Finland were without Jari Litmanen when they took on European Championship runners-up Germany at the Olympic Stadium, but they still managed to put in an excellent performance in Stuart Baxer's first competitive game in charge, drawing the match 3-3. EGAN RICHARDSON HELSINKI TIMES FINLAND PLAYED without Jari Litmanen and scored three times against the second best team in [. Click to continue reading...

Italian Champions Inter Milan dented the hopes of a positive start to the group stages for Panathinaikos, with a 2-0 win at the Olympic Stadium in Athens tonight. Scoring in each half, Jose Mourinho's first game in charge of Inter in Europe proved to be a memorable one for the Click to continue reading...

It's not unusual for knackered old has-beens to spoil a decent game of soccer. Anyone unlucky to have caught Carsten Jancker lumber through his final days at SV Mattersburg will attest to that. But never has a dried-up, former superstar managed to get a match cancelled, however lame their performance. Click to continue reading...

File under: "Circus Beckham 2 - The Sequel"

It looks like Beckham and LA Galaxy are headed back to the Australia and New Zealand this winter according to this report from Australia's Live News.

David Beckham is set to return to Australian shores in December this year, with news negotiations for a matchup between the Queensland Roar and Beckham's LA Galaxy outfit are almost complete.

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In the comedy series "Little Britain", Andy Pipkin, the pretend-disabled scrounger, states that he wants to go to Finland despite the fact that he previously said that the country had "a maudlin quality to it, rendering it unsuitable as a holiday destination." After convincing his hapless carer Lou to book them on a flight to Helsinki, Andy decides on take-off that he actually wanted to go to Florida all the time. Click to continue reading...

Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner has shaken off an ankle injury to start for his country in their World Cup Qualifier against Hungary tonight. Speedy winger Theo Walcott claims a surprising start in England's WCQ versus Andorra at the Olympic Stadium. Johan Djourou continues in defence for Switzerland v Israel while Arsenal's French trio Bacary Sagna, William Gallas [. Click to continue reading...

England play Andorra in Barcelona's Olympic Stadium at 1900 BST on Saturday evening and then travel to Zagreb for their second qualifier against Croatia on Wednesday, 10 September at 2000 BST. Players out with injury include Steven Gerrard, Owen Hargreaves, Michael Carrick and Micah Richards, with Portsmouth's Glenn Johnson and Fulham's Jimmy Bullard brought into the [. Click to continue reading...

Amidst all the brow-furrowing over Schalke's massacre in Madrid on Wednesday, it largely went unnoticed that German sides Hertha Berlin and Stuttgart were having some international success on Thursday.
Both clubs dispatched obscure Eastern European opponents to win the Intertoto Cup, alias the UEFA Cup qualifications, or, as they known in German soccer fan slang, the doner-kebab competition. Click to continue reading...

AEK became the second Greek club, in as many days, to fall to Cypriot opposition as the Athenian club fell 1-0 to AC Omonia at the Olympic Stadium (OAKA) in Athens. A solitary goal from Cape Verde international Cafú left the home side stunned, and the away bench and its Click to continue reading...

From Euro 2008 to Wimbledon and the Tour de France, this has been the summer of the Spaniard and here, in a stadium situated between a steelworks and grassed-over slag heaps, Rafael Benitez launched his own quest for glory.

The Champions League is his banker; the tournament that has earned the manager his place in the Liverpool pantheon. Click to continue reading...

Brazil were made to work for it but got their campaign for Olympic Gold off to a winning start with a 1-0 victory over nine-man Belgium at the Shenyang Olympic Stadium.
Brazil 1 - 0 Belgium


Italy got first-half goals from forwards Sebastian Giovinco and Giuseppe Rossi, and Robert Acquafresca added another in the second as Italy beat Honduras 3-0 in its opening Olympic soccer match. Click to continue reading...

Brazil get their campaign to win the Gold medal underway on Thursday when they take on Belgium in the Olympic stadium in Shenyang ... Click to continue reading...

Steven Gerrard shows off Liverpool's new Champions League bluey-green strip which he hopes will inspire the Reds to a Rome hat-trick.

Rafa Benitez's side will be bidding to lift the European Cup for a record third time in Rome's Olympic Stadium when they begin their latest campaign next month. Click to continue reading...

Andriy Voronin had a second-half penalty saved but Liverpool maintained their unbeaten record so far in pre-season with a draw against Hertha Berlin.

In front of 51,641 fans in Berlin's Olympic Stadium, Liverpool's starting line-up included just three players who could consider themselves first choice come the start of the season.

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Rafa Benitez insisted he was working "very hard" to bring in a new striker after watching Liverpool fire blanks in Berlin's Olympic Stadium last night.

Andriy Voronin missed a second-half penalty as the Reds produced a limp performance which only served to highlight why Benitez must break the bank to bring in Spurs hot-shot Robbie Keane. Click to continue reading...

Last week Sepp Blatter spoke to media regarding the possibilities that South Africa maybe denied its chance to host the 2010 World Cup. Stories abound of stadium construction delays, security fears and transport problems.All real issues considering the host country also hosts the Confederations cup a year before they host the actual world cup. Click to continue reading...

Strange game format! Read the FFA Release below.

Matildas defeat China in Tianjin

The Matildas have recorded a 2-1 victory over China PR in a training match overnight in Tianjin, China.

Prior to the match, both teams agreed to play a novel match format consisting of four, thirty minute quarters, with full interchange and penalty shoot-outs at the end of the second and fourth quarters. Click to continue reading...

Matildas Squad for China Tour 3-11 July 2008

Melissa BARBIERI (Melbourne), Victoria BALOMENOS (Adelaide), Ellen BEAUMONT (Brisbane), Joanne BURGESS (Brisbane), Kim CARROLL (Brisbane), Amy CHAPMAN (Canberra), Lauren COLTHORPE (Brisbane), Leena KHAMIS (Sydney), Kate MCSHEA (Brisbane), Caitlin MUNOZ (Canberra), Amber NEILSON (Newcastle), Clare POLKINGHORNE (Brisbane), Karla REUTER (Brisbane), Renee ROLLASON (Sydney), Kyah SIMON (Sydney), Brooke SPENCE (Brisbane), Yesim Servet UZUNLAR (Sydney) and Lydia WILLIAMS (Canberra). Click to continue reading...

"Only six players from last year's FIFA Women's World Cup campaign are involved in this squad that will tour China,"said Sermanni
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MATILDAS GIVE CHINA A PRE-GAMES WORK OUT
Matildas Coach Tom Sermanni has named an 18-player squad for the Matildas upcoming two match tour of China in July. Click to continue reading...

After making it publicly known that he does not want to return to Eastlands, Manchester City's on-loan striker is more than likely to stay at Celtic, but not if Lazio have anything to do with it. After a successful loan spell at Celtic Park, Gordon Strachan was very keen to make Georgios Samaras' deal permanent, as [. Click to continue reading...