URUGUAY'S new national "hero" Luis Suarez could miss the rest of the World Cup after FIFA confirmed that his deliberate handball to stop Ghana scoring in the quart

DIEGO MARADONA says his future as Argentina coach is unclear after his team's crushing 4-0 defeat to Germany.

HOLLAND coach Bert van Marwijk will be going back to the drawing board as he prepares his team for their World Cup semi-final clash with Uruguay.

THE fall-out continues after Brazil's shock exit at the hands of the Dutch on Friday. Felipe Melo, the Brazilian midfielder who was red-carded in the fractious quarter-fin

THE word saudade is one of the most distinctive and frequently used in the Portuguese language, a barely translatable term used to describe deep longing for something or someo

HERE's a thought. Let's suppose that Holland beat Uruguay in Tuesday's World Cup semi-final in Cape Town. And let's suppose that their captain, Giovanni Van B

EVERY major football tournament produces innovations which are then adopted by domestic leagues across the planet.

ASK any Uruguayan what his team's key attribute is and he will reply "garra". The word literally means "claw", but its actual meaning is rather more comple

THINK back to the days when West Germany were at the peak of world football and usually one overarching man springs to mind in each era.

IT was a long time coming, but finally, after another strangely lacklustre showing from Spain, David Villa found the goal that took them into the semi-finals of the World Cup.

DIEGO Maradona's notorious ego wasn't just bruised in Cape Town last night, it was shattered into tiny pieces by a rampant German side who inflicted upon him the kin

What a fantastic quartet of Last Eight matches. They had everything - shocks, drama, red cards, controversy, goals, own goals, penalty’s, penalty misses, penalty shootouts. And after all the talk of the South American countries dominating this World Cup (even predictions of the semi finals being an all Latin affair) the semi final stage has a very European flavour. First up Holland shocked everybody’s favourites, Brazil, who lost their cool and lost the match 2-1 from a winning position. Felipe Melo was dismissed for a cynical & nasty stamp on that cheeky chappy Arjen Robben and the Samba Stars imploded under Dutch pressure. Wesley Sneijder validated my decision to drop him from my dream team by scoring two, although one was definitely on OG so how FIFA can give it to the Dutchman is a mystery.