All Hail Spain, Champions Of The World
Obviously, for a football snob like myself, even the best televised football is a poor substitute for watching a couple of Scottish lower league sides playing kick and rush on...
Suarez Again: What Constitutes Cheating?
Tonight in Cape Town, Uruguay will take the field against Holland in their biggest match since their last World Cup semi-final in 1970. It will be the biggest match any...
Stirling Albion Break New Ground
More than a year after launching their bid for the club, the Stirling Albion Supporters Club has finally announced that it has bought the club from previous owner Peter McKenzie....
World Cup 2010: Netherlands 2-1 Brazil
Into the quarter-finals then, and now it starts getting serious.This was the first clash between two teams with serious winning credentials - or at least, Brazil's pedigree was beyond dispute....
The England Obituary, Part Five: A View From North of the Border
In the last of our responses to England's World Cup campaign, Gavin Saxton presents a view of the campaign as seen from Scotland, and is less than impressed by the...
World Cup 2010: United States 1-2 Ghana (aet)
When Ghana becamse independent in 1957, the first of the wave of sub-Saharan countries to do so in that period, there's a nice story about then Vice-President Richard Nixon attending...
World Cup Group Phase: Your Guide to the Permutations (Part 4)
Your last update of the week, with the final two groups. All the fun today is going to be in Group H. Group G Brazil 2...
World Cup 2010: Paraguay 0-0 New Zealand
If you'd told New Zealand beforehand that they'd go through the group unbeaten and finish above Italy, I daresay they'd have settled for that. And they'd be right to feel...
World Cup Group Phase: Your Guide to the Permutations (Part 3)
Only the first of today's groups has any sort of possible complications, this evening it's straightforward. Another reminder, it's goal difference and goals scored first, then head-to-heads and finally drawing...
2010 World Cup Australia 2-1 Serbia
On a day when England had played and won and qualified for the knockout stages of the World Cup, by the time the second set of games was ready to...
World Cup Group Phase: Your Guide to the Permutations (part 2)
Two more interesting groups play to a finish today - not only can all eight teams still qualify but all of them still have their fate still in their own...
World Cup 2010: Mexico 0-1 Uruguay
My first memories of Uruguay as football team - and quite possibly of their existence as a country at all - came from the World Cup in 1986. They were...
World Cup Group Phase: Your Guide to the Permutations (Part 1)
Twohundredpercent will be bringing you, each morning this week, your handy guide to the permutations in each of the groups to finish that day. There really shouldn’t be any need...
World Cup 2010: Chile 1-0 Switzerland
Well if I've only got one pre-tournament prediction right so far, I've got it right even more convincingly than I imagined - that the South American teams would all do...
World Cup 2010: Greece 2-1 Nigeria
Finally the tournament has come to life. In the twenty four hours before this game we've had some fine football played by Switzerland, Uruguay and Argentina, some drama and a...
World Cup 2010: Ivory Coast 0-0 Portugal
If this World Cup has yet to really catch, there were high hopes beforehand that these two teams would provide the first really absorbing contest - both are packed with...
World Cup 2010: Netherlands 2-0 Denmark
Half way through the opening set of fixtures then, and we've already seen two of the semi-finalists in action. Only Germany have really looked good enough to be worthy of...
World Cup 2010: England 1-1 USA
Okay, let's get it out the way first up: Robert Green. He had only one save to make in that first half, when Clint Dempsey hit - or in truth...
World Cup 2010: Uruguay 0-0 France
Game two then, and after all the discussion of squad selections and line-ups, we've already had a look at ITV's opening performance and it's time to see what the BBC's...
World Cup predictions
Nearly there folks, the World Cup starts today. Yes, that's today, and next time you hear from me I'll have some actual real actual football to talk about. Just one more...