Article: No place for boy Roy in FAI football greats list.(NEWS)

Article: How to escape the World Cup Thirty two football teams from five continents have embarked on a marathon tournament of 64 matches at ten venues around France in 33 days. If that thought plunges you into despair, how can you escape it? ALISON HANDLEY reports.
Evening Mail;  June 16, 1998 ;     700+ words ......one in three mothers are actively dreading the World Cup, while one in five has considered fleeing the...There's quite a bit of availability for the World Cup period at the moment, at really good prices. Places...there's probably nowhere you can go where the World Cup won't be ...

Article: How to escape the World Cup; Thirty two football teams from five continents have embarked on a marat hon tournament of 64 matches at ten venues around France in 33 days. If that th ought plunges you into despair, how can you escape it? ALISON HANDLEY reports.
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  June 16, 1998 ;     700+ words ......one in three mothers are actively dreading the World Cup, while one in five has considered fleeing the...says: There's quite a bit of availability for the World Cup period at the moment, at really good prices. Places...there's probably nowhere you can go where the World Cup won't be ...

Article: Cricket World Cup: A success story - despite the administrators
The Independent - London;  June 23, 1999 ;     700+ words ......to answer. Was it a good World Cup? Yes, because it had worthy...it was a decidedly mixed World Cup. But, when you think about...failures were failures of organisation. The administrators have...is straightforward: the World Cup is a fantastic concept...out to bat. The magic ...

Article: Soc: Oceania likely to get World Cup spot
AAP Sports News (Australia);  February 27, 2002 ;     464 words ......automatic entry. Asia had four teams at the 1998 World Cup in France after Iran qualified at the expense...the Asian teams, who are playing at home (this World Cup). How they do will influence the allocation of places for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, said Blatter. Africa will be ...

Article: Books: Just a load of balls? Chloe Walker takes a look at the latest football titles aiming to cash in on World Cup fever
The Independent - London;  June 14, 1998 ;     596 words ......shouldn't authors jump on the World Cup bandwagon? There are a vast...are so caught up in the World Cup whirlwind that they teeter...ambitions and motives of the organisation behind the world's most...readable The Story of the World Cup (Faber pounds 9.99) is a ...

Article: Football World Cup 2002: ootball's supreme politician has World under his control; Hyder Jawad in Yokohama, Japan puts the questions to Sepp Blatter, the most powerful man in the planet's biggest sport.(Sport)
The Birmingham Post (England);  June 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ......in control of his organisation that he is easily...questions about the 2002 World Cup, it was hard to resist...ticket sales and the organisation of the ticketing...definitely it is a Fifa World Cup and we have to bear...hurdles. 'For the 2006 World Cup, we will put ...

Article: ‘No better hosts for World Cup’ There will be no special treatment for South Africa as the host of the ‘festival of festivals’, says Fifa general secretary Dr Urs Linsi. In a rare interview with our Special Correspondent, Linsi says he is confident that SA is capable of making the 2010 Soccer World Cup a memorable one.(News)
The Star (South Africa);  April 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the legacy it will leave afterwards and what the World Cup will do for the nation is more than in previous...young nation will make great strides after this World Cup. Q And how important is the World Cup to Fifa? AThe World Cup is priority Number One for Fifa. The ...

Article: Football: Owen talks good game for England; BATTLE TO STAGE WORLD CUP 2006.(Sport)
The Mirror (London, England);  August 10, 1999 ;     700+ words ......honour to be here today to present my country's World Cup bid. The last time we staged a major tournament...to be in the same England team flying off to a World Cup, having a great time. I've played in one World Cup and it was the most memorable occasion of my life and to play in the ...

Article: Football: WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN: England chart-toppers silenced by Germans.(Sport)
The Birmingham Post (England);  March 30, 2002 ;     645 words ......hit the top of the charts just before the 1990 World Cup. England stars of the day - John Barnes, Paul...The closest anybody has come to achieving the World Cup/chart-topping double was Bobby Moore in 1970...West Germany. In 1982, the England song for the World Cup in Spain was This ...

Article: RU: Yokohama worthy of Rugby World Cup final, says IRB chairman
AAP Sports News (Australia);  February 20, 2005 ;     377 words ......defeat of Germany in the final of the 2002 football World Cup co-hosted by Japan and South Korea. Rugby minnows...November. Millar emphasised he was not visiting on World Cup business, adding: "I took the opportunity of coming...this very fine stadium" after the draw for the World ...

Article: Soc: Germany awarded 2011 women's World Cup
AAP Sports News (Australia);  October 31, 2007 ;     306 words ......Germany awarded 2011 women's World Cup By Mark Ledsom ZURICH, Oct...hosts of the 2011 women's World Cup, beating off a rival bid...following a meeting of the organisation's executive committee today...won the last two women's World Cup finals. Their winning bid...country ...

Article: RU: France to host 2007 World Cup
AAP Sports News (Australia);  April 11, 2003 ;     475 words ......am that the 2007 Rugby World Cup will take place in France...losing finalists since the World Cup began in 1987, have opted...would contest the 2007 World Cup while another 20, reduced...this year' s cricket World Cup, would have replaced...of the view that the ...

Article: World Cup for Australia in 2014
Sunday Star-Times;  February 28, 1999 ;     380 words ......to hosting the soccer's world cup finals in the second decade...nation to host the 2006 World Cup but suggested he would like to see Oceania stage the World Cup in 2014 -- with Australia...granted a direct route to the World Cup, Blatter said Oceania's...proven the ...

Article: Blatter re-election could force World Cup breakaway
The Sunday Herald;  March 31, 2002 ;     700+ words ......estimated that Europe is responsible for 80% of the World Cup's income. According to one source, Uefa's top...alert" ever since Blatter mooted his notion of a World Cup every two years. Such a proposal would effectively...money from that tournament than they do from the World Cup. ...