NEMANJA VIDIC is confident Serbia's World Cup future is in their own hands after a stunning victory over Germany.

SLOVENIA coach Matjaz Kek admitted there was a sense of sadness among his players to have let slip a glorious chance to reach the last 16 of the World Cup against the United S

WAYNE Rooney hit out at the England supporters after they booed the team from the field following the dismal 0-0 draw against Algeria in Cape Town.

CAMEROON star Samuel Eto'o has urged his team-mates to ensure they have no regrets when they leave the pitch following tonight's crucial clash against Denmark in Preto

GHANA'S Kevin-Prince Boateng has likened the World Cup meeting with Australia at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium later today to a Champions League final.

PIM Verbeek insists he has had more difficult weeks with Australia during his two-and-a-half years in charge and is confident of a strong reaction from his players when they

CAMEROON'S World Cup campaign is in danger of imploding after senior players asked coach Paul Le Guen to reconsider his team selection for their Group E match with Denmar

SYMPATHY for Robert Green may have been running low among England followers in the aftermath of the goalkeeper's blunder against the USA last weekend but among those offer

JAPAN coach Takeshi Okada says he has no gripe with his Netherlands counterpart ahead of this afternoon's World Cup Group E meeting in Durban.

WAYNE Rooney blasted his own fans as a woeful England World Cup display left the players trudging off to boos.

ENGLAND'S misfiring players were forced to defend the supporters' right to boo them despite team-mate Wayne Rooney lashing out at the travelling fans.

FABIO Capello: The Backlash was an enjoyable way for the English press to spend those interminable six days between the desultory draw in Rustenburg and this debacle in Cape T

MILAN Jovanovic and Vladimir Stojkovic teamed up to reignite Serbia's World Cup campaign as much-praised Germany faltered.

THE United States rescued their World Cup hopes with a second-half comeback against Slovenia yesterday.

THE Football Association has formally complained to Fifa after an angry fan barged his way into the England dressing room and confronted David Beckham in Cape Town last nigh

THERE was no happy birthday for Fabio Capello in Cape Town as England were booed by their own supporters following a dreadful performance against Algeria that leaves their Wo

The England players are not performing any goal celebrations, but you can see some here. On 26th May at the Soho Theatre in London, Pringles hosted an event where football fans, inspired by Peter Crouch’s robot dance, performed their own weird and wonderful celebrations to a live studio audience. A stream of hopefuls turned up on the day to try and impress a celebrity judging panel consisting of … Comedian Paddy Mcguinness of Phoenix Nights fame, Peter”The voice of X Factor” Dixon and Andrew ‘Starman’ Stone the wannabe pop star from Sky 1’s documentary - Pineapple Dance Studios The event was hosted by Capital Radio DJ Kat Shoob and during the course of the day she introduced all sorts of goal celebrations to the crowd, from the sublime to the frankly ridiculous. The top ten as voted for by the judges have made it onto the Pringles Face book page where visitors can now vote for their favourites with the most ‘liked’ winning a state of the art 3d home entertainment system to help them enjoy the rest of the Summer’s World cup action You can see the celebrations and highlights of the day including an Andrew Stone Dance master class at  www.facebook.com/pringles Tags World Cup Pens World Cup Posters World Cup football

The Netherlands brushed aside Japan when the two sides met in a friendly in Enschede just over nine months ago, but there's far more at stake when the pair meet at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban today, with a place in the World Cup knock-out stages on the line. Fresh from their opening day victories, both sides will be eager to book a spot in the Round of 16 with another win here, although neither side looked particularly convincing in their first-up performances. The Dutch may have laboured to a scratchy 2-0 win over Denmark last time out, but for Japan coach Takeshi Okada it was all about the result, as the Samurai Blue conjured their first ever World Cup victory on foreign soil with a narrow 1-0 win over Cameroon. It was hardly champagne football on display from the Asian powerhouses, but after relieving some of the immense pressure heaped upon them by an expectant press and public, Japan can relax as they go into the Durban clash as underdogs. CSKA Moscow attacker Keisuke Honda knows all about Dutch football, having spent two-and-a-half successful seasons at VVV Venlo before moving to the Russian league. The 24-year-old scored the only goal in the game against Cameroon, and he will hope to extend his streak against a Dutch defence which at times looked vulnerable in their opening win over Denmark. "The atmosphere within the team is very good after collecting a win," fellow attacker Yoshito Okubo told the Japan Football Association website. "As we will play at a lower altitude, I should be able to run more," he added. Should Japan lose the match in Durban, they will face Denmark in a do-or-die showdown in Rustenburg on June 24. Samurai Blue fans no doubt hope that it won't come to that, as Takeshi Okada and his side look to pull off another improbable win over one of the genuine aristocrats of world football. Copyright © Mike Tuckerman & Soccerphile.com J.League News Tags World Cup Pens World Cup Posters World Cup football

With Bafana Bafana's World Cup life hanging by a thread, many South Africans face a tricky choice - throw away their yellow jerseys and watch the World Cup as they would the Olympics - with interest but without fervour, or adopt another team to try to get excited about. Yesterday was 'Football Friday', when the country was encouraged to dress up for the Cup, and even my middle-aged hosts were sporting yellow Bafana gear accordingly. But unlike on Cape Town's tourist-friendly Waterfront, where I enjoyed the opening game amidst multiracial hordes of happiness, the crowd, if you can call it that, watching South Africa's defeat against Mexico in a local bar here in the Guateng province, were less than thrilled by their nation's first eleven. The Johannesburg hinterland where I am staying has businesses dominated by Afrikaans-speaking whites, whose preferred sport is rugby, and barely a third of the bar that night was wearing yellow. As Uruguay began to rack up the score and it became evident that the hosts would finish up on the losing side, the interest levels waned, eyes drifted from the TV screens and conversations turned to other matters. The next day the airwaves were full of voices urging the nation not to give up on the World Cup, but probably many will. Unless South Africa win by a cricket score against France and Uruguay beat Mexico, the host nation will be out for the first time in the first round. While blacks are by far the majority here and love football, they are not visible to many tourists who steer clear of the inner-city areas or townships/shanty towns they live in for fear of crime. So what visitors are left with are semi-interested Afrikaaners who, if the radio phone-ins are anything to go by, have little experience of the Beautiful Game. The nation as a whole has come together with car flags, shirts and football fridays, but as their team makes its early but not unexpected exit from the tournament, the separate communities of the Rainbow Nation will shuffle back to their townships and gated communities, the dream of a soccer-Invictus a fond memory of 2010. (c) Sean O'Conor & Soccerphile Tags World Cup Pens World Cup Posters World Cup football

Nicolas Anelka earned the nickname of 'Le Sulk' as a teenager at Arsenal when he forced a move to Real Madrid in 1999. The Frenchman has been involved in a catalogue of bust-ups since leaving the Gunners, and the latest of these occurred on Thursday when he was substituted for allegedly swearing at coach Raymond Domenech at half-time of the 2-0 defeat to Mexico. Anelka was officially sent home from the World Cup on Saturday after a disciplinary meeting.