STEVEN NAISMITH insists he would not even bother getting on the plane to Norway next week if he did not believe he had a chance of earning his first Scotland cap for more than

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World Soccer News for week of 8/2 Lung cancer kills Bobby Robson Universally popular soccer coach Bobby Robson died on Friday from lung cancer he had been suffering from for a long time. Robson was the last coach to lead England to a World Cup semifinals in 1990, and on a club level he achieved even greater results while coaching Ipswich Town, Porto or Barcelona. Robson used to be a great player in his own right, an offensive midfielder who scored plenty of goals for Fulham and West Bromwich Albion, collecting 20 caps for England. Before leading his country to

The top flight of Japanese football breaks this weekend as the J. League All-Star select travels to Incheon to take on their South Korean counterparts in the annual JOMO Cup. There's no such pause in the 51-game marathon that is J2, however, with the second tier of the Japanese game enjoying a full midweek round of action on August 5. With the J. League looking to penetrate those parts of the sports market denied regular access to the popular baseball and sumo circuits, three new teams in the form of Kataller Toyama, Fagiano Okayama and Tochigi SC were admitted to J2 for the current campaign.