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As the Portsmouth takeover shows no sign of being concluded (the latest stunning development is that Dr Al Fahim is in receipt of the Premier League’s documents regarding the ‘fit and proper persons’ test), I thought I’d continue the World Cup theme I started a couple of weeks ago with the England v Poland game at Mexico ’86. After that game, England despatched Paraguay 3-0 at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City.

Two major finals brought the 2008/09 season to a close but soccer fans need not worry too much as the European qualification campaign for the 2009/10 Europa League is just about to get away.

Another classic match for you today, from Portsmouth’s famous FA Cup run of 1992. We were eventually to reach the semi final against Liverpool, of course, and were hugely unlucky not to make the final itself.

Popping up on the internet from time to time recently amid the constant Portsmouth takeover speculation, has been the issue of the club’s new kit for next season. Of course, the all blue home kit, created to commemorate our ‘110th anniversary’ (!), can’t be worn next season as we will need another to mark our 111th anniversary. This does mean, though, that it looks likely we will be reverting to red, white, and blue. Hooray!

As we approach the start of the 2009/10 season many football fans are starting to wonder if the Man Utd squad is good enough to take the title this season. After a victorious 2008/09 season we have seen the loss of Ronaldo and players such as Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville starting to fade into the background as the new breed of Man United players step forward.

Throughout their history with the Ladies team outshining the men’s, you can bet the U.S. fans wore their soccer jerseys with pride on Monday. Going into the final group game on Sunday night, America sat bottom of the table and requiring a six goal swing to leapfrog the Italians and Egypt to gain second place in Confederations Cup Group B. Brazil were guaranteed their place at the top of the table but the final qualification place was up for grabs between all three sides but most people believed the tussle to be between the Italians and Egypt.

The FIFA World Cup is the most popular soccer competition in the world. It is staged every four years and contested by member countries of FIFA, the international governing body of soccer. With five titles, Brazil is the most successful team in World Cup history. Here are brief histories of Brazil’s five World Cup (WC) titles.

West Ham United Football Club can boast a richer history than most of their London rivals, including their nouveau-riche South London rivals, Chelsea. While the club have in recent years appeared in the press regularly for all the wrong reasons West Ham’s faithful fans still bask in the halcyon days of the past, even claiming to have won the World Cup.

A soccer referee is the unbiased judge who is charged with ensuring a soccer match is played in accordance to the Laws of the Game. His two tools of discipline are the yellow card and the red card. The yellow card is used to show that a player has been cautioned.

In the world of sports, no legend is more interesting than the history behind the World Cup of soccer. This vessel of victory has been around for almost a hundred years and it has an intriguing past.

With less than a year to go for the 2010 FIFA World Cup football fans around the world are restless and can’t wait to hear the first whistle blow! After all, it’s a four year wait before one gets to see world class football that’s pure magic! And the countdown has begun.

It’s finally official. Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and Brazilian Kaka are to don the Real Madrid soccer shirt for a whopping 200 million dollars! With the return of Florentino Perez as Real Madrid’s president it was just a matter of time before big monies exchanged hands to sign up the world’s most marketable soccer stars.