When you're a football club and you have to come up with ideas of how to promote the sale of season tickets during the summer months, what do you do? If you're Aston Villa, you release three very creative videos and hope that they go viral. James Milner, Carlos Cuellar and John Carew star in […]

Simon Cowell's unofficial England World Cup song debuted last night on Britain's Got Talent TV show. The song features Dizzee Rascal rapping and actor/comedian James Corden singing the chorus, as they're both accompanied by flag waving England supporters onstage. The song features a chorus from the Tears For Fears classic song, "Shout." During Dizzee Rascal's […]

When you think back to previous World Cup tournaments, what are the fondest memories of the games you watched? For me, it were the ones I watched with friends and strangers. Watching a World Cup on a giant TV screen with friends or strangers is a surreal experience. Every moment in the game is heightened as […]

Italy have just concluded their final friendly before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, and it seems like the Azzurri have been asleep for these friendlies. While a 1-1 draw is certainly better than the 2-1 loss they suffered to Mexico, the current World Cup champions seem pretty ordinary before the tournament kicks off. […]

No Donovan. No Buddle. No Beckham. No problem. The L.A. Galaxy continued their astounding early season form this evening with a 4-1 bulldozing of the Houston Dynamo this evening at the Home Depot Center. The Galaxy continued their absolutely torrid pace and are still undefeated with 10 wins and 2 draws for 2010. In the […]

For the New York Red Bulls, this match is the last before the World Cup break came and after a fantastic finish against the Houston Dynamo on Wednesday night, the club was looking to put in a good performance and earn another three points. The only goal of the evening came in the 27th minute […]

Australia, who reached the round of 16 in the World Cup in 2006, are not a team to be looked over come June 13. The Socceroos boast a wealth of talent and a wily old coach in Pim Verbeek. Australia's qualification campaign was probably not as difficult as many European qualification campaigns, but it might […]

The magic of Edson Buddle has continued out of Major League Soccer and into the US Men's National Team. This new found confidence has given him and what we all expected out of him from his days with the Columbus Crew that started his career. Well whatever potion Buddle has drank in Los Angeles he […]

Just as the hype and excitement for the World Cup is building to a feverish pitch, over the last two days we have had to read devastating headlines about star players (most of them Premier League stalwarts or ex-EPL stars) going down to injury in exhibition warm-up matches. Devastating because in the World Cup you […]

It would not be a World Cup for England without a few injury problems and general chaos. However Middlesborough born football legend Chris Kamara, or should I say Chris Cabanga, has other come up with his own strategy to propel England to glory despite the chaos. Apparently he has sought the advice of a Neuropsychologist […]

What happens if you combine Star Wars with Adidas, Snoop Doggy Dogg, David Beckham, Ian Brown from The Stone Roses and other famous musicians? It sounds like a surreal dream, but it's all here in the TV commercial above. When you think about it, both Star Wars (the original) and Adidas are icons of the […]

FC Twente's Marko Arnautovic has made the move to Bundesliga side Werder Bremen today. Marko Arnautovic made 44 appearances for FC Twente and scored 12 goals. In 2009, Italian champions Internazionale took him on loan, where he seemingly failed to impress, making only three Serie A appearances. Arnautovic, still only 21 years old, will now […]

Serbia, who have been nicknamed The White Eagles by their fans, will be Germany's fiercest opponents in the group stage of this summer's upcoming World Cup. Serbia's qualification was a great success and a bit of a shock as well. Their qualification group consisted of France, who reached the final in 2006, Austria, Lithuania, Romania, […]

Update – ESPN.com via Gazzetta dello Sport is reporting that Pirlo plans to be fit by the final group stage match against Slovakia. Add Andrea Pirlo to the growing list of World Cup injuries. The Italian midfielder and AC Milan star could miss an undefined number of matches after suffering a second degree calf injury […]

What was been one of the worst kept secrets of this transfer season, Jerome Boateng has now come out and declared that his move to Manchester City is all but official. Jerome Boateng, who will be representing Germany at this year's World Cup, is also the younger brother of Ghana and Portsmouth midfielder Kevin Prince […]