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Sports minister, Hugh Robinson, has announced that any plans to bring back major sporting events to free-to-air channels will be put off until 2013. He said that the planned digital switchover, as well as ongoing problems with the economy, meant that any decisions about making sporting events available to the wider public by airing them [...]

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Although Sainsbury’s has announced an overall slow down in sales for the first quarter, it said that its World Cup merchandise, in particular its plastic vuvuzela horns, was selling extremely well. According to a Sainsbury’s spokesman, the retailer has so far sold 40,000 horns and expects to sell another 35,000 by the end of the [...]

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Hospitality companies are facing a tough World Cup tournament as many big businesses decide not to send staff and clients to the tournament. A combination of security concerns, the location of the tournament and the global financial crisis are being blamed for the lack of interest. Royal Bank of Scotland Group has said that it [...]

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UK employers are gearing up to the start of the World Cup in South Africa by offering employees flexible working initiatives, so that they will get to see some of the matches without having to call in sick or skip work. Among the big names offering their employees that chance to see the matches is [...]

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Lord Triesman’s recent accusations of cheating may have put England’s chances of winning the bid to host the 2018 World Cup in jeopardy, but when it comes to cheating on their wives and girlfriends at this year’s World Cup in South Africa, it is England fans that really let the side down. A recent survey [...]

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Reports that supermarket chains Tesco and Asda are planning to slash the price of beer ahead of this year’s football World Cup have provoked outrage from Scotland’s health minister. Nicola Sturgeon called the decision indefensible, and has once again called for a minimum price to be placed on all alcohol as well as a ban [...]

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As the world prepares for the upcoming World Cup in South Africa there has been a scramble for tickets and accommodation.  Many are skeptical about the ability of an African nation to pull off such an event while keeping both the athletes and spectators safe from various dangers.  One of these dangers is the chance [...]

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It has been called everything from the Hand of Gaul to the Hand of Frog, but Irish football fans are still steaming over a handball that may have cost them a chance at the World Cup in 2010.  Irish fans are still irate over the decision especially after Thierry Henry admitted that he had done [...]

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It has been the talk of the football world, generating arguments, discussions, controversy, and even a new catch phrase.  What is mockingly being called The Hand of Frog has set the international football community on fire as people draw sides in the controversial argument of whether France should be forced to replay its controversial victory [...]

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England’s success in recent World Cup qualifying matches has the entire country excited about their potential in the upcoming World Cup in South Africa.   This excitement is being preyed upon by conmen and websites selling counterfeit tickets to unknowing fans.  This has prompted Britain’s Scotland Yard to get more heavily involved in preventing and punishing [...]

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