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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We all saw the handball. Thierry Henry, a fantastic footballer, decided to use his hand as a guide to set up William Gallas to score the goal that ended Ireland's hopes of playing in 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Henry should be ashamed of himse...
Anyone doubting the enormity of the World Cup should have been swayed by the events of the past few days.
The deciding 2010 World Cup qualifier between Algeria and Egypt resulted in riots outside the Algerian embassy in Cairo with President Hosni...
Forget the Thierry Henry of Arsenal days. Forget the mazy runs, the languid sprint and the delightful finishes. There is only one Henry that football will remember, and that is the cheat who popped up on Wednesday night.
He used to be revered as ...
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 ...
In exactly 273 days from now the world will be descending on South Africa for the 2010 soccer World Cup while some of the world's best soccer talent will be feeling a little disgruntled in front of their top-of-the-range HDTV televisions where they'l...
So Zlatan Ibrahimovic is apparently twice the player Samuel Eto'o is? Which form of reasoning Pep Guardiola used to come up with that conclusion I will never know.
Statistics show that the Cameroonian hitman has been the best striker in Europe ove...
