Poor refereeing decisions have been part of the game for a very long time but recently the man in the middle have been becoming more and more influential in matches, more match winners than match officials, stealing the thunder from the players.
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2009 will be remembered as the year that South Africa staked its claim to hosting a successful 2010 World Cup.
Certainly, the past 12 months have marked an extraordinary turnaround in the preparations for this mega sporting event. Just a year ago...
By Pamela Weaver
It's taken me 23 years, but at last I understand why my old man, who is English, still can't let go of Maradona's infamous "hand of God" goal against England in the 1986 World Cup. Next time he enters into what, for more than two ...
This week marked the 20th anniversary of the unification of Germany, an event that symbolises some extraordinary parallels between the hosts of the 2006 and 2010 editions of the World Cup.
When Germany and South Africa slugged it out for the righ...
Can somebody please explain how Fifa goes about running "world" football?
If it truly claims to represent the interests of world football, why is it that Europe and the Union of European Football Associations (Uefa) seem to get a better deal than...
A tournament where the hosts never get beyond the first round is always dreaded because the general buzz and interest dies down. Bafana are not doing enough to allay this fear. France went all the way in 1998, South Korea kept the torch burning after...
For several years now, the relationship between Irvin Khoza and Danny Jordaan has been fraught with tension. They are, after all, the most formidable soccer administrators in the country and they have played a crucial role in securing South Africa th...
So Sepp Blatter and company have finally decided to stop worrying about crime statistics in South Africa and do their job as governors of the game.
About time, too.
Last week's bolt from the blue may have left Chelsea feeling well, slightly bl...
Is their success at luring talent and the financial success of the English Premier League turning English clubs into victims? Fifa recently gave Chelsea a 12-month ban on any transfer activity for "tapping" or inducing Gael Kakuta from French club Le...
The appointment of a new chief justice, the ongoing Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe saga and a number of high-profile court cases may have dominated the legal headlines in recent weeks, but a dispute over a key-ring has served notice of thin...
