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Broadcaster has offered up a feast of gaffes, stupidity, and unconquerable on-air awkwardness for US viewers to enjoy The World Cup! A tournament of frenzied emotion, spectacular goals, heroic upsets, ...

Megan Rapinoe described the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade as "sad and cruel" after it ruled there is no constitutional right to abortion in the United States ...

The Football Association has made the first external appointments to its 2018 World Cup bid team, hiring two former Fifa employees with exceptionally close ties to the president, Sepp Blatter. Peter ...

In its own way this is a group of death. There is a suffocating simplicity about the fixtures that will inexorably end with England's qualification for Euro 2008. A debilitating monotony will be the ...

Martin O'Neill has backed Henrik Larsson to be a "major player" at Manchester United, with the Aston Villa manager predicting the Swede will prove to be the final piece in the Premiership leaders' ...

This afternoon Frank and Ronald de Boer will play their first league match of the season for Ajax, a month after saying they would never turn out for the club again. The Amsterdam Arena will be filled ...

David O'Leary's assertion that Leeds should not be bracketed among the title contenders would appear to be the sentiment of a wise man after watching his side become the latest victims of football's ...

When Michael Foot was elected leader of a beleaguered Labour Party in the early eighties he was considered as a caretaker leader, someone to sit in the hot seat until someone better came along. Is ...

On Tuesday, three miles from the country churchyard which inspired Thomas Gray's elegy, the madding media crowd were allowed within sight of the England team hotel. Instead of filing into gloomy rooms ...

Scoring a goal in the sixth minute doesn't always mean you get complacent. Scunthorpe United succeeded where Bayern Munich failed by keeping their concentration to the final whistle and clinging to an ...