Last week concluded the opening qualifying matches for Euro2012 in Poland and Ukraine. On the 3rd, Croatia travelled to Riga to begin their campaign and did so with a comfortable 3-0 win over Latvia. The opening goal of the night came in the 43rd minute via Malden Petrić and they ...

The 2010 World Cup could be considered as a highly successful event if we take into account that Spain, the big favorite in the online sportsbooks, was proclaimed the champion of the world last July 11. However, more than a month after the end of this championship, the host is having ...

The 2010 World Cup could be considered as a highly successful event if we take into account that Spain, the big favorite in the online sportsbooks, was proclaimed the champion of the world last July 11.However, more than a month after the end of this championship, the host is having ...

A priest in the Netherlands has been suspended for holding a special orange-themed mass in support of the national football team before the World Cup final between his country and Spain last week. The Bishop of Haarlem says Reverend Paul Vlaar had not paid sufficient respect to the sacred nature of .

The football used in the FIFA World Cup final 2010 in South Africa was sold for £48,200 in an online auction. The ball made by Adidas was one of those used in the final between Spain and Holland played in Johannesburg. A total of 133 bids were placed from 55 international bidders, ...

Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk was humble in defeat and glossed over player protests about referee Howard Webb who brandished a World Cup Final record 14 yellow cards – and one red. After Spain's 1-0 win, Dirk Kuyt and others in the Dutch camp claim English ref Webb favoured the Spanish, ...

England have never performed as poorly at a World Cup finals as they did in South Africa. It was already obvious Fabio Capello's men would be rated somewhere between ninth and 16th given they were beaten by Germany in the first knock-out stage. And, in their assessment of England's performances, FIFA .

Dutch criticism of the refereeing performance of Howard Webb in Sunday's World Cup Final is a blatant and poor effort to cover up their own shortfalls and spoiling tactics. Webb, as always, refereed the game as he saw it and he could easily have issued more than the one red ...

A perfect season. Or an almost perfect one. Wesley Sneijder won the Serie A title, the Coppa Italia, the Champions League and he is going to marry his girlfriend. But the FC Internazionale star ended all losing the World Cup final. "We had our chances," he was quoted. "We were ...

Group Stages Holland 2 – Denmark 0 As usual there was a sense of expectation when it was Holland's time to come out and play in South Africa. However even the world renowned playing beautiful football Dutch failed to light up the slow to get going World Cup. In the ..

Group Stages Spain 0 – Switzerland 1 Just when we all thought Spain's years of under achievement were over they shockingly began with a defeat to Switzerland thanks to a scrappy goal from Fernandez. Not that the Spanish did not create enough chances to alter the score.

Everyone knows a certain old man or woman who likes to reminisce how everything was good in their day. Whatever our generation achieves, their generation it seems did it better. Football apparently is no different, this week while the whole of Holland have been celebrating their success ...

Third Place Playoffs are always exciting to watch. Teams throw caution to the wind, which usually means a game packed full of goals. The Germany v Uruguay is shaping up to be no different. The Germany v Uruguay Odds have Germany as the favourites, which isn't really surprising. Germany put ...

What a World Cup Final! Two European teams who have never won a World Cup. The Holland v Spain World Cup Final looks set to be a great match. The Holland v Spain Odds have Spain as the favourites, no surprise there. But don't be expecting a high scoring game. Four out ...

It won't come as much consolation – if any – to Frank Lampard that the lino who failed so spot the shot that crossed the line by a country mile is sorry! The ‘goal that never was' will go down in World Cup history and will forever be etched on the ...