40 days and 40 nights and no rain
Posted by Paul Grant JOHANNESBURG -- I'd never spent 40 consecutive days anywhere other than my home. So after spending more than a month in South Af…
Mixed emotions accompany two days off
Posted by John Brewin JOHANNESBURG -- A rest day, two of them in fact, what now for the frazzled football journalist? Tuesday was the 19th straight d…
How are you feeling now, FIFA?
Posted by Paul Grant JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The World Cup might be hitting a high note, but FIFA itself is enduring a bit of a scratchy stretc…
Capello flirted with U.S.
Posted by Jeff Carlisle JOHANNESBURG -- According to U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati, it all could have ended up so differently for Fab…
Gulati is on board with video review
Posted by Luke Cyphers JOHANNESBURG -- The president of U.S. Soccer didn't see either World Cup match on Sunday, and so was a bit discrete in comment…
Time to give credit to the octopus
Posted by Mark Young JOHANNESBURG -- In the aftermath of the England calamity, my initial reaction was to curl up in the fetal position under my card…
The reasons for English failure are many
Posted by John Brewin JOHANNESBURG -- In seeking to find answers to the England question it is most difficult to avoid the knee jerk. Failure at inte…