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Kiwi ref's support after disputed ruling
New Zealand officials did a good job controlling their first football World Cup match, says a friend of the referee.
New Zealand officials did a good job controlling their first football World Cup match, says a friend of the referee.
Amid all the goals, thrills and English inquests, a wider pattern is unfolding in Brazil that might yet develop into the World Cup's most significant narrative.
Pele is an ambassador for the World Cup but the association has been problematic.
Even in Brazil where football is a religion, the miraculous sight of wheelchair-bound fans leaping from their seats has prompted calls for a police investigation into claims of ticket fraud.
When England take their leave of major tournaments, the photographs are invariably of footballers on their haunches or on the turf coming to terms with their distress.
Four years since their infamous player mutiny at the last World Cup, France look poised to make a more positive impact on this tournament as they swept aside Switzerland 5-2 yesterday.
When Luis Suarez scored the second goal for Uruguay to win 2-1 over England at the Fifa World Cup yesterday, the biggest sigh of relief may have come from a New Zealand punter.
When the team-sheets were delivered, England will have quickly scanned them for the inevitable confirmation: of course Luis Suarez was playing.
A New Zealand high school teacher is set to take to the world sporting stage tomorrow as a referee at the Fifa World Cup.
There is nothing like the sight of a man, mere seconds ago a formidable athlete, now rolling around on the ground in agony because someone touched his shirt to tell you that the football/soccer World Cup is upon us.
The excitement around this year's World Cup in Brazil has been ratcheted up a notch now that we're in the second round of group matches.
A Luis Suarez double has put England on the verge of an early World Cup exit, following a 2-1 defeat to Uruguay in Sao Paulo this morning.
The nation that has won five World Cups, that produced Pele, Romario and Ronaldo, is now wondering whether to play Fred or Jo in attack against Cameroon on Tuesday.
Spain, the world champions, the double European champions, the team of the decade, are out of the World Cup.
Heartbroken but intensely proud, Ange Postecoglou says his Socceroos have set a benchmark that can help them become a feared attacking force in world football.
Defending champions Spain have been knocked out of the World Cup in the group stages following a shocking 2-0 defeat to Chile in Rio de Janeiro this morning.
Australia's World Cup hopes are all but over after going down to the Netherlands 3-2 in Porto Alegre in what will be remembered as one of their gutsiest ever performances.
The secret is out. Just like the Emperor's new clothes, the Brazil team of 2014 are not what we have been led to believe.
Born to run, Raheem Sterling also spent some of his formative years cycling around the old car park at Wembley as England's home was being reconstructed.