Last week the chairman of the FA, David Bernstein, tried to pour cold water on the "flawed" plans to host the Qatar World Cup in the winter, saying it...

A winter tournament would wreak havoc to the European football calendar and, for the majority, that is non-negotiable. The awful alternative is that the season would begin after the World Cup, depriving supporters of watching their club for two-thirds of a year.

We can't possibly have a World Cup during the European winter, can we? If it means holding the world's biggest and most important football tournament in temperate conditions, suitable for both players and fans, then yes... let's do it and soon.

A dramatic last-minute penalty ensured Japan became the first team to qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil as they snatched a 1-1 draw with Austra...

Lionel Messi and Pelé will be the subject of two separate films on the footballing legends' lives next year. Messi's life story is set to hit the ...

Sir Bobby Charlton has claimed England don't have a chance of winning the World Cup in the foreseeable future. The Three Lions' all-time record goa...

Argentina could only manage a 1-1 draw in Bolivia as players suffered playing at a high altitude, with Lionel Messi reportedly being sick on the pitch...

Pedro's second-half strike ensured Spain moved to the top of Group I after claiming a 1-0 victory at World Cup qualification rivals France, whose mise...

Luis Suárez has risked an international suspension after the he appeared to punch Chile's Gonzalo Jara during Uruguay's 2-0 World Cup qualifying defe...

A timid second-half display proved England's undoing as Montenegro came from behind to earn a deserved draw in Podgorica. They remain two points ahead...

A timid second-half display proved England's undoing as Montenegro came from behind to earn a deserved draw in Podgorica. Having already struck a p...

France host Spain tonight in what is the highlight of the World Cup qualifiers in Europe, with La Roja trailing Les Bleus. After the chastening Eur...

Thought the snow was bad in the UK? Have a look at Colorado, where the United States defeated Costa Rica in a World Cup qualifier during a snowstorm w...

The prospect of the 2022 World Cup being switched to the winter has increased after both Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards and Britain's FIFA ...

Goal-line technology will be used at the 2014 World Cup, Fifa has announced. Following a successful trial at the Club World Cup in Japan last year,...

Would the frequently toxic nature of that crowd/team relationship not be improved if the players were really playing for the shirt and the cap, and nothing else?

How can the nation which virtually invented the game in the 19th century - and certainly discovered the arts of passing, heading and crossing - now be languishing in 70th place in the current FIFA rankings, sandwiched between Uzbekistan and Guinea?

Qatar's 2022 World Cup organisers have reaffirmed their determination to play the tournament in summer temperatures despite calls from Fifa president ...

Robin van Persie and Holland team-mates Klaas Jan Huntelaar, Ibrahim Afellay and Nigel de Jong partied with Romanian international Adrian Mutu and pro...

Wayne Rooney scored his 32nd goal for England in Warsaw's National Stadium but it didn't seem like it. Whereas Sven-Göran Eriksson was so reliant on ...

Giovanni Trapattoni's Jurassic approach to international irked Ireland's supporters at Euro 2012 and Friday's record 6-1 defeat to the superior German...

Spain host France tonight in what is indisputably the highlight of the World Cup qualifiers in Europe. The duo met as recently as the summer's Europea...

England's record against Poland is, with a couple of disastrous exceptions in 1973, a favourable one. England have lost just once against their oppone...