Charlie Rhodes

England’s loss to Germany in the last 16 of the World Cup has sparked another predictable round of tabloid inquisition and calls for Fabio Capello to lose his job. Of…

Manchester City’s ‘summer of frivolous cash flow’ is showing no signs of relenting any time soon, with the news that Barcelona’s erstwhile holding man Yaya Toure has completed one of…

Join Adrian Clarke & Iain Spragg for the latest episode of the pint size Soccerlens World Cup Podcast. The two experts analyse all four last eight encounters with a blend of…

Morning all, and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Withdrawal symptoms are well and truly setting in now after two whole days spent stranded in the non-football…

Cesare Prandelli was presented today in Rome as the new Italy boss after the South African embarrassment. Mr. Prandelli had been named to succeed Marcello Lippi before the tournament. He…

Argentina coach Diego Maradona has taken a swipe at Germanys Bastian Schweinsteiger in retaliation for the German maestro’s comments about his side being too influential on referees with their berated…

Did you manage to get back to England for the Lions Play Off Final at Wembley?
Unfortunately not. It was the only week off we had all summer so I had arrange to take the family away on hoilday to Rhodes. As you can imagine I was gutted!! I tried to swing the Mrs around to the benefits of a weekend in Bermondsey but she was having none of it as we havent been away for two years so I was hoping for an ash cloud over Greece haha!

It has been almost a week since the United States was eliminated from the World Cup at the hands of Ghana. Although they carried aspirations of advancing deep into the…

With so many of the ‘big guns’ misfiring at this summer’s World Cup, I thought it was high time to take a look at some of the ‘lesser lights’ that…

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After a fair few weeks of intense will he/won’t he speculation, Liverpool have confirmed that they have appointed Roy Hodgson as their new manager. The 62-year-old, who was voted the…

The purpose built Cape Town Stadium will play host to arguably the most enticing of the quarter-final ties, a tie that will see Joachim Loew‘s effervescent young German side pitted against Diego Maradona‘s well-versed, eye-catching Argentinian charges.

There will be a distinctly Latin flavour to the fourth and final of the World Cup quarter-final match-ups, as reigning European champions Spain will battle it out with Paraguay in a clash loaded with some fairly irrelevant historic significance, although now is not the time or place to go into it.

One of the five South American representatives currently left in the World Cup will meet the lone remaining African standard-bearers in the second of the 2010 quarter-final ties, staged in the luxuriant surroundings of the Soccer City stadium in Joburg this coming Friday evening.

After respectively seeing off the threats of Slovakia and Chile in the second round, it will be Bert Van Marwijk‘s Netherlands and Dunga‘s Brazil that will contest the first of the World Cup quarter-final ties – and what a tie it promises to be.