The man in black is Jack Warner, the CONCACAF President and FIFA Executive Committee member who just finished voting on the selection of World Cup 2018 and 2022. A long-time target of corruption allegations, Warner is under fresh claims of shady behavior amid new reports suggesting that he did not vote for the United States in its bid to host the 2022 World Cup.

The man in black is Jack Warner, the CONCACAF President and FIFA Executive Committee member who just finished voting on the selection of World Cup 2018 and 2022. A long-time target of corruption allegations, Warner is under fresh claims of shady behavior amid new reports suggesting that he did not vote for the United States in its bid to host the 2022 World Cup.

So the ups and not so ups of this season continued last night as we drew 2-2 away to Wigan.

Hugely disappointing, especially under the circumstances. They had just been reduced to 10 men after N'Zogbia, clearly their most dangerous player, decided to use Jack Wilshere's face as the ball and give it a little glancing header.

Ricardo Caruso Lombardi came close to stepping down as Tigre manager on Thursday afternoon amid accusations from the club's Colombian full back Juan Angulo Villegas. If you've not heard of Villegas before, don't feel bad: he arrived in Tigre during ... Continue reading →

The Blatherer has spoken, and he's hurt. Deeply hurt.

Accusations that FIFA is corrupt are, he says, unfounded, despite their foundation. And the vitriol being spit from England is a shame for the 'motherland of fairplay ideas', whatever that means.

So as this high school drama production continues, he thinks the real problem is that England, at least some of those involved, are 'bad losers'.

FIFA's erstwhile despot president Sepp Blatter has branded the English as 'bad losers' in the wake of the recent World Cup auction which saw Russia and Qatar purchase the rights to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments respectively.

Upon crashing out of the 'ballot' in the first round with a paltry total of two votes (one from themselves, and one from the main butt of BBC Panorama's 'potentially devastating' exposé into the institutionalised corruption within football's governing body Cameroonian ExCo member Issa Hayatou), the England 2018 team reacted with a flurry of frothing self-entitlement and a brief swathe of measly protests, which were all about as half-cocked as the bid attempt itself.

Continuing our series on stuff we missed while working on the new, improved Philly Union Talk 2.0 (now with fiber!), we turn our eyes to the world. The rest of it. Outside Philly. World Cup 2018: Following months of debate, accusations, harsh words and grudging apologies, the host nation throwdown between England and Russia came [.

At times this season, and at the end of the last Premier League campaign, it seemed for all the world that Liverpool's form was suffering as a result of more than a few names who didn't appear to want to wear the shirt.
With Fernando Torres and Ryan Babel receiving the majority of the criticism in this respect, even established first team players weren't spared from accusations from those regularly placing a free sports bet of not trying hard enough to win crucial games or do the job efficiently against lesser opposition.

Roy Hudson welcomes his former side Fulham to Anfield this evening, but Paul Konchesky, who followed the Liverpool manager to Merseyside in the summer, might get a less warm reception from the Kop after his mother became involved in a bizarre internet row with some of the club's supporters.
Responding to criticism of her son by some Liverpool fans, Carol Konchesky used her Facebook page last month to apparently call them "scouse scum" and accused supporters of living in the past.

In front of a wildly passionate crowd Indonesia, playing their first away game under Alfred Riedl, were asked questions like they never had been before as Malaysia, knowing they needed a cushion to take to Jakarta on Wednesday in the second leg, set about them from the get go.

Malaysia had done their homework.