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Irrelevant of whether the fix is on in the Mexico/Uruguay match, the fact is that any draw between the two teams will see of them both progress to the next round. And in the big scheme of things a draw between two relatively equally matched teams in the World Cup Finals is nothing at all out of...

The Group A match last Thursday pitted the 1998 World Cup winners and 2006 runners up France against Mexico where France, after a first game draw against Uruguay, needed at least to avoid defeat to leave the passage to the next round purely in their own hands. However, Mexico proved formidable...

Soccer is a game which, with more than a little help from the British Empire, was exported all over the world and an exported externality of that was soccer hooliganism. Most notorious in the game through the 1970s and 1980s, it is still far from being eradicated and it has a habit of rearing...

The art of diving in soccer, called simulation by FIFA and cheating by everyone else, is where a player tries to gain an unfair advantage by falling to the ground in the manner by which it seems that a foul has been committed but in reality has not. It's a definite blight on the game, has been...

In baseball the hidden ball trick, a play where the baserunner is fooled into an incorrect location of the ball and tagged out, is something of a lost art. Over the last six years there have been a total of two successful hidden ball tricks in the big leagues, both coincidentally by Mike Lowell...

The goal poacher is a term used in soccer to denote a striker known for the ability beat defenders and to score goals from close range. Although their goals generally aren't the most beautiful in the world and they are not usually remembered as elites in their field, they do their job as they...

George Gillett and Tom Hicks - who between them have had also had involvement with the Montreal Canadiens, Richard Petty Motorsports, Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars ended countless months of speculation as they confirmed their intention on Friday to sell Liverpool Football Club of the English...

With the exit of Manchester United from the Champions League at the hands of Bayern Munich on Wednesday following the dispatching of Arsenal by Barcelona on Tuesday it left the semi-final stage of the competition a multicultural affair. With one team from each of France, Germany, Italy and Spain...

Over 50 people, ranging from managers to referees to a number of former professional players, were arrested in a series of police raids in Turkey on Wednesday in relation to a long standing investigation into the match fixing of soccer games. The Turkish Football Association announced the...