How To Use World cup In A Sentence
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Of course there's nothing wrong with necking a few beers and getting caught up in the buzz of the World Cup.
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Although the World Cup is all encompassing at the moment, when it comes to sport there is no more spine-tingling moment than when 65,000 fans at Murrayfield sing ‘Flower of Scotland’.
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The second was rather less complimentary and said he was more non-League than World Cup winner.
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But the possible bolters are there, too: two 18-year-olds in Sam Harrison and Laura Trott, both clearly being fast-tracked towards London with a view to riding in the omnium, and a more outside bet in the 20‑year‑old Welshwoman Dani King, who has a chance of a place in the women's team pursuit just a month after her first appearance at a World Cup.
Team GB's young pretenders make a bolt for London 2012 Olympic places
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All wrongs in the world can be fixed by an afternoon snooze - I went to sleep and woke up thinking that England had been knocked out of the world cup by Wales in the semi final.
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This gap is important in even-numbered years in order to accommodate the spectacle of the World Cup or the Summer Olympics, perhaps even the Commonwealth Games or the European Football championships.
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Finally, I mentioned earlier the triumphant car hooters being used to celebrate the England win in the World Cup tournament.
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It's more about continuing improvement, but obviously the end goal has to be to win the World Cup - without making any tub-thumping promises.
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If there is a perception that the elite end of the game has sometimes become estranged from the volunteers that drive the grassroots, Steele has vowed to bring them back together, using the prize of a home World Cup as the driving force. 2015 will offer us an opportunity in three areas.
England can win 2015 World Cup, says RFU chief executive John Steele
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Luxembourg have entered the World Cup 15 times and finished bottom of their qualifying group every time.
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The World Cup was transmitted around the world by satellite.
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A football signed by Brazilian ace and World Cup winner Rivaldo is set to be auctioned off to raise funds for the York City Supporters' Trust.
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I ended my conversation with Marco by asking which he thought would come first: mankind is conquered by robots of our own design, or the U.S. wins the World Cup?
What do the Dutch think of the U.S. national team?
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The team's defeat is a salutary warning before the World Cup.
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Despite the deluge of World Cup promotions and advertising campaigns, Walkers' heavy spending and football tie-ins appear to have cut through the advertising clutter.
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World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst has urged youngsters to get off the couch and start taking part in competitive sport.
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He was chosen to represent Scotland in three consecutive World Cup Finals.
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Brazil's men have won the World Cup a record five times but their women have missed out on the medals at the last two Olympics.
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After today's disastrous end to Italy's 2010 World Cup campaign, you may want to remember the word "addio" as in goodbye World Cup 2010.
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Mr Barker suggested if they were going to "knife the Rubbish from Rio" then Mr Sono would be the perfect person to do it as he had "lank" experience of getting rid of Bafana coaches just before World Cups.
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In the studio David Gower, Mike Atherton and Ian Botham lurked around an unusually small cardboard coffee table looking oddly bleached-out, a sense of ghostliness accentuated by the ever-present World Cup logo with its backdrop of faceless, baying cartoon figures set against a glaring firestorm of a sky, like a Soviet-era depiction of some future cricketing apocalypse.
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To qualify for the Olympics, each country must have two shooters who have won first place in World Cup competition.
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They lost the 1977 World Cup final to Australia by a single point.
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But you trusted entirely these rare moments of triumphant self-expression: every jink and turn by Diego Maradona at the 1986 World Cup was hard-won, brutally paid for and born out of absolute courage and commitment.
World Cup 2010: How a love of Spain can make for a sterile affair
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"It's not Muppets' songs we're after, y'daft ha'p'orth," he yelled, "It's the World Cup!"
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Go look for yourself at the site were you can download a sample trailer, with some rad action from the world cups.
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Rooney's poor performances in the World Cup led to him being barracked by the Chelsea fans and Ferguson said: "Allgood players get booed these days, but it was a fantastic goal – the making ofitwas superb, and Antonio really couldn't miss.
Manchester United grab first prize and eye Mesut Ozil
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Germany will next play the US in the quarter-final of the World Cup finals on Friday.
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Now I know not whether Shoaib is the fastest ever (and this is not a forum for that chestnut) although I reckon that when on the rampage, before he let the ball go, he would have overtaken in his run-up anything bowled by Paul Collingwood, and know that the fastest single delivery I ever saw castled the New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming in the semi-final of the 1999 World Cup.
Shaun Tait is certainly very fast, but 100mph?
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The moves represent a small but significant challenge to one aspect of Qatar's ambitions for the emirate, which also has drawn global attention by winning the staging rights to soccer's World Cup andfor funding and supporting the revolution in Libya.
Qatar, Unveiling Tensions, Suspends Sale of Alcohol
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The quartet are set to return to their clubs but remain on standby for World Cup duty.
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He made it very clear he wanted to keep a clean sheet away from home in a World Cup qualifier.
The Sun
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Chris Hoy keeps the rubber side down to win the keirin final during the fourth round of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics at the Manchester Velodrome in England.
Chris Hoy escapes crash to win World Cup keirin in Manchester
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And the glamorous lawyer showed she meant business earlier this week when she arrived at a Downing Street reception in a red figure-hugging outfit, upstaging the World Cup heroes in whose honour the reception was held.
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The intensity of the autumn timetable has the ring to it of the World Cup knockout stage.
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The England manager has chosen his dream team for the World Cup.
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History, I guess, will tell if our efforts prove enough or not for our World Cup chances.
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So the cricket World Cup next year runs from February 8 to March 23 and takes 42 games to eliminate eight countries from a pool of 14.
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The Ticket Window random draw ballot for individual matches at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 is now complete.
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This World Cup started as it was to end - with a risible penalty from a ridiculously coiffured superstar.
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We can learn a lot from the World Cup just by studying how coaches and players adjust intelligently to suit the conditions and to suit opposing teams.
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I guess I made my name as free-kick specialist in Brazil's first game of the 1970 World Cup against Czechoslovakia with one of those strikes.
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The performances in the World Cup were poor.
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Still, we managed to beat Italy in the first of a sporting double-header in which our footballers will shortly travel to Italy for a World Cup qualifier.
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After clinching the World Cup in Germany on Sunday, Cooke was facing a drive to Holland for another race on Monday - and the prospect of a night's sleep in the team camper van.
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That means he is now Brazil's record goalscorer at the World Cup.
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A well-placed source stated that in the weeks before the presidential election Visa formally reconfirmed its commitment to Fifa, which runs until after the 2014 World Cup.
Sepp Blatter remains in credit with Visa
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We're lucky to live next door to a large number of shops, restaurants and cafes, and - after we'd snarfed a triumphant breakfast of World Cup winning sausages, bacon and eggs - we made our way to search through the second-hand bookshops.
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The World Cup overlaps the cricketing season here: the run-up to the sweltering summer months when sun-baked rice fields double as cricket stadiums in the suburban areas.
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My goal against Argentina in the quarter-finals of the World Cup proves I'm able to cope on the highest stage.
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The fact that this World Cup is basically being played in our time zone means most soccer fans are able to see a lot more of this event and understand how big it is.
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The World Cup replica consisted of 11kg of cocaine mixed with either acetone or possibly petrol to make it moldable.
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The World Cup final is being transmitted live to over fifty countries.
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Despite the enforced closure of schools throughout the football World Cup, hosted by South Africa, followed by a three-week teachers' strike, the pass rate for the 2010 school-leaving "matric
The Economist: Correspondent's diary
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Since the beginning of the World Cup, opticians across the city have reported increased sales of rimless-style glasses.
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- not a present disfragmented unity - benni here today, tomorrow never. world cup is not free state stars or golden arrows. there you meet tough guys. my players would eat papa for breakfast, lunch and supper - not conflakes and black label - the two dont meet
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He bought the drill and spent the rest of the trip flourishing it like a footballer with the World Cup.
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In addition, his unhesitating support for the players under him have seen him and his team bounce back always from setbacks, as was of course evident not so long ago in the World Cup.
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The Swede may have taken up his highly-paid job imagining that landing the World Cup was all that mattered to English football: he knows better now.
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There have been plenty of fizzers and one-sided matches in the opening rounds of the Rugby Union World Cup.
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At least it gave the guys one decent story about the time they met a World Cup winner.
Times, Sunday Times
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As for the players who are capable of emulating his achievements at the World Cup 38 years ago, he is tipping four stars to make a major impact.
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Organizers warned yesterday that holders of fraudulent tickets would not be admitted to World Cup events.
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This World Cup had come to mean too much to him and the dismissal followed three bookings in his six matches here.
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There's been massive television coverage of the World Cup.
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There's a real prospect that England will not qualify for the World Cup.
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Although the defender hasn't played for them for three years, he still clings to the hope that he might yet make it to the World Cup finals.
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Torres, after all, has suffered enormously with injury during the past 12 months and damaged his thigh and adductor muscle during Spain's World Cup final win over Holland on July 11.
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Anyone who has watched the last rounds of the World Cup knows that these scandalmongers have a point.
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However, since the World Cup started on May 31, he has not been enthusiastic about working, especially during the time when the matches are aired on television.
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These moments of disquiet congealed into a continuous nagging worry when I went to my first World Cup finals in Argentina.
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Most World Cups have an oddball semi-finalist and Ukraine have the potential to be this year's.
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To avoid one-sided matches they must conduct a mini World Cup among the qualifiers and the cellar teams of the last World Cup.
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In 2002, he helped Blackburn win the Worthington Cup - their first cup in 74 years - and backstopped the U.S.'s remarkable quarterfinals appearance in the World Cup.
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After finishing 11th overall in the World Cup last year, Baxter had had a difficult season as he wrestled with equipment problems, racing with five different pairs of skis in six races.
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The World Cup winner received a standing ovation.
The Sun
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At least it gave the guys one decent story about the time they met a World Cup winner.
Times, Sunday Times
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In any World Cup, any stadium that is anything less than full to the brim is a bit sacrilegious to viewers like me who would give a pinkie to be there.
Ahmed Rehab: What the Vuvuzela Is Up With the Jabulani? Why World Cup 2010 Sucks So Far
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Bookmakers have reported capricious behaviour from the betting public during the World Cup.
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One of 10 World Cup stadiums in South Korea, the Pusan World Cup Stadium has a seating capacity of 55,982.
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He's been to the last 2 olympics, skied in world cups, faced the steepest and fastest of runs.
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I managed to score a couple of tickets to the World Cup final.
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Despite not adding to his World Cup totals of two goals and three assists, Sas once again ignited the Turkish attack and was named Man of the Match.
World Cup Soccer - Turkey vs. Senegal
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The team put in an excellent performance at the World Cup.
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But a world cup of baseball with all the top pros from the US, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Japan, Mexico, etc. would be something to watch.
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Tindall -- who Phillips met in 2003 in Australia during England's triumphant Rugby World Cup campaign -- is a leading rugby player who has captained his country.
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The men in blue were looking to seal the semi-finals berth of World Cup cricket against Sri Lanka.
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Seemingly harmless World Cup screensavers, spreadsheets and electronic wall charts could provide the ideal vehicles for virus and worm propagation.
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Flag-waving is but a quadrennial affair, when the German soccer team marches off to the World Cup.
Those Reassuringly Dull Germans
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Moreover, while the Czechs are a seasoned, veteran team — older than the U.S. team on average — not a single Czech player has competed in the World Cup.
The First Cup is the Deepest
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The team put in an excellent performance at the World Cup.
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I ran out of fingers to count on during the World Cup hosts' 13-0 laugher over San Marino on Wednesday.
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Keeping hold of the ball was one of England's problems during the World Cup.
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The 1991 World Cup generated unprecedented interest in rugby union and planted the sport firmly in the top league of spectator sports.
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Triple 2010 Olympic medalist Miller missed the World Cup finals with an ankle injury and finished 20th overall, 17th in downhill, 18th in super-G and fifth in super-combined.
Lindsey Vonn wraps season with another weekly honor
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Apparently it's the rugby football world cup or something at the moment, but I have yet to meet anyone who cares.
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Alas, one of the biggest came in the 1994 World Cup final, when his penalty miss handed the trophy to Brazil.
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But an overly prescriptive World Cup runs against the grain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every hoser and his brother knows tonight is the championship game of the World Cup of Hockey.
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We got well and truly stuffed and things went from bad to worse during a grim and gruesome World Cup.
The Sun
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Neuville flashes in fabulous cross but Klose - who's scored all five of his World Cup goals from headers - somehow hits the post from about five yards with - you've guessed it - his head.
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Bookmakers have reported capricious behaviour from the betting public during the World Cup.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you think about World Cups, you get women and kids crowding round the TV to watch Scotland who wouldn't usually be interested.
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For the first time in a World Cup finals, lots had to be drawn to decide who would finish second and third.
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During that interminable slo-mo edit of England's World Cup qualification the river of molten sentimentality was so ickily glutinous you'd have thought we'd already won the bloody thing.
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England, the discerning television pundits informed us, brought only two genuine world class players to this World Cup.
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So we have every reason to feel optimistic about the world championships and the rest of the world cup season.
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Fly-half problems For any country hoping to win the World Cup, it helps to have a laser-accurate goalkicker, a dominant lineout and a bunch of forwards who can generate enough force to knock over a rhinoceros.
Lessons from the Six Nations
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And it is very early in the World Cup campaign to become a caricature.
Times, Sunday Times
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Taylor wants a convincing victory to erase doubts about his team's ability to reach the World Cup finals.
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He was also booked after two scything challenges which might have earned a red card in a World Cup qualifier.
The Sun
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The Wallabies secured a shot at the title on Saturday with a victory arguably better than last year's World Cup boilover.
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Their defensemen were getting spun like tops by the great one-on-one talent at the World Cup.
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After the disastrous tour of New Zealand, the media was castigating the team, we replied with a good World Cup campaign.
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On the brink of agreeing a new contract for next term, if he does remain at the club he will face a draining schedule which will combine the normal Premiership demands with European football and the final World Cup qualifiers.
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That translates as saying that PMQs is not meant to be the bunfight – "scrutiny by screech" – it has been for a generation – "the noise of which makes the vuvuzela trumpets of the South African World Cup appear but distant whispers by comparison," says Bercow.
How the Twitter police are keeping Westminster sober
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I wanted the chance to meet Roy Hodgson privately and having done so, I'm very impressed with his plans for the future," added the England captain, who, in fairness, had already moved to dampen speculation linking him with moves to the likes of Real Madrid ... by performing like an incorrigible galoot at the World Cup.
$tevie Says Relax, I'm Staying At Liverpool
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Now there is very little to prevent them from making history and advancing beyond a World Cup group at the first attempt.
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The master tactician took control of his own World Cup destiny with two key substitutions which paid instant dividends.
The Sun
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Having bought the rights to England's final qualifier against Italy ahead of the 1998 World Cup, Sky then allowed the BBC to show it as-live.
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Over the last few months, he has compounded his sins by falling out with the All Black captain Richie McCaw, a secular saint here; only last month, he found himself on the wrong end of some friendly fire from the former Wallaby scrum-half and World Cup-winning captain Nick Farr-Jones, who described him as a "boofhead" for going out of his way to wind up the great flanker.
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However, that year, when Brazil and France entered the World Cup final, the two often engaged in heated arguments on the winner.
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Asked to look to the future Adu briefly hesitates, perhaps wary of relighting the promotional touchpaper, yet can't resist touching on the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
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With a World Cup just months away, England are determined to finish this Six Nations' campaign on a high.
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MacLeod didn't have the disposition to turn down the rising pressure, declaring Scotland could win the World Cup.
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The '86 World Cup was followed by an abysmal display in Euro '88, including defeat to Ireland in the opening match followed by wallopings at the hands of the Soviet Union and Holland.
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Despite his gradual ascent up the World Cup rankings, his lifestyle has remained far from glamorous.
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The All Blacks No10 was ruled out of the Rugby World Cup when he tore his left adductor on 1 October, the day before New Zealand's pool match against Canada.
Rugby World Cup 2011: Dan Carter recovering after groin surgery
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While the action hots up in South Africa for the ICC World Cup, Kirkets is whipping up the passion of Indian cricket fans.
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There had been murmurings from the Spanish press that Barcelona had changed their mind about signing Fabregas as he is not featuring prominently in Spain's World Cup campaign.
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A gentleman and a scholar throughout and, though it might sound trite, he's won a lot of people over in this World Cup for his British bulldog spirit.
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They re-ran the World Cup final on a big screen.
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England has been selected to play Germany in the draw for the first round of the World Cup.
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The Olympic athletes who give new meaning to the word inspirational Walcott and Co. prove teamwork is the key for England's World Cup hopes Southend all at sea: Should Tilson stay at the helm as his team flounder?
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But he is not taking for granted a place in the squad for what he says would be his final rugby league World Cup.
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She did that in Madrid to tie with Bergqvist at 2.02 and win the World Cup gold on a countback.
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About 10,000 England fans travelled to the World Cup warm-up match in Amsterdam, including about 2,000 ticketless supporters.
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However, this hasn't stopped the various media outlets from enthusiastically embracing the Rugby World Cup.
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Germany sprang one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history in 1954 when they overcame Hungary, who had been unbeaten for four years.
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Just a week before the first ball is due to be bowled in the eighth cricket World Cup, the talk wasn't about champions and challengers yesterday but boycotts, riots, forfeits and fines.
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When this team won the last World Cup, just before Bastille Day in 1998, they seemed the perfect advertisement for a multiracial France.
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World Cup fever has gripped the country.
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The 14M1 ... the perfect antidote to World Cup fever.
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The executive chef has won numerous international accolades including a gold medal in the 1998 Culinary World Cup in Luxembourg, and being named the third best pastry class in the world.
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Would anyone bet against Real Madrid reaching the latter stages if they were pitched into the World Cup?
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Sixteen football teams are contending for the World Cup this year.
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Wilkinson, England's record points-scorer and one of the few remaining survivors of their 2003 World Cup-winning team, will continue to wear the No10 jersey despite his recent goalkicking difficulties.
Rugby World Cup 2011: England drop Courtney Lawes and James Haskell
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It reached a pathetic nadir in the quarter-finals of the 2003 World Cup in Melbourne, when South Africa played New Zealand.
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The top two teams in each group will advance to the final regional qualifying round, the so-called hexagonal, with the top three teams in that group advancing to the World Cup in Brazil.
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The World Cup may just have hastened his move to the dugout.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said this process to access tickets is normal for international games for all World Cups - be they cricket or football - so that all fans have an opportunity to access tickets and to avoid scalping.
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Spain are the World Cup holders and always play in little triangles.
The Sun
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Compared to the Soccer World Cup the rugby appealed to the ABC1 and younger elements to a greater degree.
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Ben Maher gave British showjumping the perfect send-off towards London 2012 by claiming a stunning World Cup victory at Olympia.
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I think the Japanese hosts ruined the World Cup this year and ultimately put a permanent damper on the sport for years to come…
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Nick Farr-Jones said Cooper was a "boofhead" idiot for repeatedly targeting McCaw and warned that his actions could backfire should the Wallabies meet the All Blacks in next month's World Cup final.
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The daddy of all football trips was the 2002 World Cup in Japan and Korea.
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Flag fever is unfurling across Manchester as the city is swept up on a wave of World Cup and Jubilee celebrations.
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ARGENTINA are known for their flamboyant play but three of their last four goals at World Cup finals have come from corners.
The Sun
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In 2003 she was crowned European Champion and even stood on the top step of the Athens podium - having won a World Cup event there.
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He's as calm under pressure as any other player on this roster and won't fold in the pressure-cooker of the World Cup.
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The sporting entertainment kicked off early in the day as crowds gathered around large TV screens to watch the World Cup final.
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Thus McCarthy occasionally came across as gruff or grouchy in this World Cup and some reporters took delight in this.
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Not many coaches have led a team into the quarter-finals of a World Cup, so I'm satisfied.
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To look ahead is to identify a worrying number of obstacles between Scotland and the World Cup finals.
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Coming Down Under to train and race for the last few seasons, he is known as a strong athlete and in 1999 podiumed in the World Cup here.
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Bode Miller — 25, born in Franconia, N.H.; 2002 Olympic combined silver medalist and giant slalom silver medalist; bronze medalist at 2001 giant slalom World Cup; he started snowboarding and eventually switched to Alpine skiing.
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The World Cup has given men licence to buy all manner of tat.
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Germans celebrate the diversity of their 'multiculti' World Cup team
The Guardian World News
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And it is very early in the World Cup campaign to become a caricature.
Times, Sunday Times
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The World Cup will have a prominent place on the agenda.
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The former AC Milan star was a fixture on the Italian national team for nearly a decade, earning 64 caps and appearing in two World Cups.
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Ireland crashed out of the World Cup in the cruellest and most dramatic fashion - beaten 3-2 on penalties by Spain.
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Over the weekend, Olympic champions won more World Cup honors in freestyle skiing and speedskating, American track and field athletes won World Indoor titles in dramatic fashion, and an NCAAathlete broke the world record in the men's indoor heptathlon.
Lindsey Vonn wraps season with another weekly honor
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‘I think it will be lekker to have a go at them after the World Cup,’ Cronje explained.
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Owen arrived on the international scene in the 1998 World Cup.
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Blatter, the embattled president of the governing body, has had other things on his mind but, in Japan and South Korea, the co-hosts can think of little other than the World Cup.
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With the economy once again on the move and the Olympics and World Cup on the way, there is a certain something in the Rio air right now; a swagger that can be felt not only in Ipanema's luxurious nightspots, but also in the city's impoverished slums – favelas – and remote Amazonian towns where shopping malls and cinemas are sprouting from the ground with growing pace.
Lula's Brazil: glitzy, rich, dynamic
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But I wanted to give Americans who aren't at the epicenter of the galactic madness which is currently fevering planet Earth a taste of what it's like to be in South Africa at World Cup 2010.
David Henry Sterry: An American in South Africa -- Or, Why Soccer Really Matters
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By his sophomore year, Burt had secured some low-grade sponsorships while competing on a ragtag racing circuit that would, in 1987, coalesce into a bona fide World Cup series.
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Four years ago the word "metatarsal" entered the popular lexicon after David Beckham broke his toe on the eve of the World Cup.
Metatarsal special
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We lost two or three early games in the World Cup, but we bounced back.
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He has participated in both World Cup outings for South Africa - 2002 being his most frustrating one.
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The 1986 World Cup hero was barred from leaving Argentina after family members blocked his early efforts to return to Cuba.
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But the World Cup continues to draw its strength from a remarkably portable and polyvalent game that expresses itself vibrantly through the colourful, dramatic expression of national difference.
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They were written off as World Cup no-hopers by their own media; until everything clicked against New Zealand.
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The World Cup will have a prominent place on the agenda.
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There is to be a Fifa investigation into the scenes of violence that marred the end of the World Cup qualifying playoff game between Turkey and Switzerland.
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England has a very poor side this season, and if they win the World Cup, I'll eat my hat!
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The other finalists, should England make it to the World Cup will be either Spain or Germany.
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No late-night revelling, no booze-ups, no cavorting with local ladies: these are the usual diktats dispatched to players by their national coaches at World Cup time.
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In this untypical but engaging sports autobiography, he portrays himself as a man of destiny, overcoming all obstacles in the way of England's Rugby World Cup victory.
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It was the most amazing move of the 2011 Chess World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, a wonderful coup de grâce you don't see every day.
Lubomir Kavalek: Chess World Cup: Peter Svidler All the Way
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The Paraguayans race off to celebrate what would have been the 2,000th goal in a World Cup finals… until the flag goes up a good 30 seconds late.
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For Eriksson there is some hope of sporting revenge over the man whose Brazil side won the 2002 World Cup quarter-final meeting.
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Derby Day, Sunday, June 30 which features The Budweiser on the Curragh race course clashes with the final of the World Cup.
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Also in bobsled, dual-sport athlete Shauna Rohbock placed fifth in the season's second World Cup race in Calgary.
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Bookmakers have reported capricious behaviour from the betting public during the World Cup.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am absolutely appalled at your barracking for England tomorrow night in the World Cup Final (Wallabies vs England).