The Upside Their Words We are a country of overcoaches. The talents and abilities of our players now exceed the knowledge of the coaching, so the result is stagnation. US National Team alum Eric Wynalda, speaking to The Wall Street Journal's Matthew Futterman. Other Sources Fifa's Joao Havelange faces IOC inquiry into £610,000 bung allegation - from The Guardian's Matt Scott: "The IOC takes all allegations of corruption very seriously.

He maybe a bit of a fascist but he's made the IOC a cleaner organization

FIFA is imploding from within as each passing minute brings about more and more details of corruption with Jack Warner deciding to turn whistle blower. It's all a bit rich coming from a man who has millions profiting from his position within the FIFA hierarchy.

LONDON, England The Great Britain Olympic football team may be forced to withdraw from the 2012 London Olympics completely if the FA board cannot come to a solution to the problems of fielding a side. It has been widely expected that Great Britain would field a combined side for the first time in [.

Yet another objectively evil regime was hosting yet another Summer Olympics, and someone asked Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice about a boycott. She spoke out strongly against it.
Quote: "I do not think the boycott of the '80 Olympics was very effective. In fact, I think it looked feckless," she said.

Tottenham Hotspur have released an artist's impression of their desired new 60,000-seat home on the site of London's Olympic Stadium.

After it was initially thought Spurs were merely seeking leverage to persuade Haringey Council to approve their White Hart Lane redevelopment, the picture leaves no doubt that Stratford is their intended destination in 2012.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland If FIFA wants to switch the 2022 World Cup finals to a winter date then the IOC confidently expects the two bodies will sit down together "sensibly" to avoid a dates clash with the Winter Olympics. Olympics president Jacques Rogge issued this public expression of confidence over an uncertain future as, not [.

Two months after branding Tottenham and AEG's joint venture to move the club into the Olympic Park Stadium after the culmination of the 2012 games as being 'completely unacceptable', UK Athletics chief Ed Warner has decreed that the aforementioned partners' final, revised proposal is 'insulting' to his direct superiors on the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

After a period of quiet, you can't keep the Olympic Stadium bid out of the news at the moment. At the weekend, West Ham's Karren Brady implied that the Beckham loan attempt was just a stunt on Spurs' behalf to secure the site and this was quickly followed by Tottenham MP David Lammy's condemnation of the club's plans.

Uber-creep Sepp is back to his old tricks, offering up his weekly soundbite that is both confusing and probably a little bit offense.

This week's target: economically-challenged housewives. A group that, according to his Seppness, deserves to be randomly fired under the bus from time to time.

Uber-creep Sepp is back to his old tricks, offering up his weekly soundbite that is both confusing and probably a little bit offense.

This week's target: economically-challenged housewives. A group that, according to his Seppness, deserves to be randomly fired under the bus from time to time.

By AVI CREDITOR

The 2022 FIFA World Cup might just be played in the winter after all.

After a series of high-profile soccer personalities raised the possibility of scheduling the event in the winter to avoid the high temperatures of a Qatari summer, FIFA president Sepp Blatter offered a surprisingly revealing take on the matter, which will be discussed at FIFA's executive committee meeting in March.