Nicolas Anelka is suing French newspaper L'Equipe for libel after it printed details of his apparent World Cup rant at former national team coach Raymond Domenech.
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Soccer City, the South African football stadium that hosted this year’s World Cup final, will keep its name until the High Court makes a decision on its naming rights.
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London 2012 sponsors have been warned they need to work hard to make the most of their involvement in the Games after new research suggested that backers of this summer’s Worl...More>
The South African Football Association (SAFA) is planning to nominate Danny Jordaan to run for the presidency of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in the 2011 genera...More>
South Africa 2010 chief Danny Jordaan has joined the Fifa World Cup inspection team.
He will be part of a delegation that visits prospective 2018 and 2022 World Cup venues ...More>
Bookmaker William Hill has said that strong betting on this summer’s football World Cup helped offset losses it suffered at Royal Ascot.
It revealed that the World Cup "pro...More>
More than 5,000 people have been arrested across Asia as part of an operation against illegal gambling on the football World Cup.
Almost $10m was seized during the crackdow...More>
Cricket South Africa has said it expects to attract the largest-ever crowd to a cricket match in the country by hosting a Twenty20 game against India at a stadium built for th...More>
Coca-Cola and Adidas enjoyed the most in-stadia exposure during the World Cup, according to brandRapport.
For the first time, moving electronic perimeter advertising for sp...More>
More than 20 million British viewers watched the World Cup final on television, official figures show.
On BBC1, viewers watching Spain beat the Netherlands peaked at 17.9 m...More>
Sepp Blatter has hailed the 2010 World Cup as “special” despite criticism from some quarters about empty seats and the quality of football.
The Fifa president told BBC Radi...More>
Hong Kong police have uncovered a bookmaking syndicate targeting the football World Cup which had taken in around 7 billion yuan (£679.9m) of illegal bets.
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Adidas chief executive Herbert Hainer has insisted that criticism of the Jabulani World Cup ball has not harmed the company’s brand.
Players and managers have slammed the b...More>
Fifa says it may compensate fans who missed this week’s World Cup semi-final between Spain and Germany in Durban because of congestion at the South African city’s new airport....More>
Fifa has dropped its biggest hint yet that it could introduce goal-line technology after general-secretary Jerome Valcke revealed this World Cup is set to be the last tourname...More>
South African president Jacob Zuma says the country has made “good returns” on the billions of rand it spent on hosting Africa’s first football World Cup.
The Treasury has ...More>
Sportswear giants Nike and Adidas account for more than half of the World Cup ‘brand buzz’ on social media websites, according to new research.
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