The Football Association has announced a new two-year deal with ITV for the broadcaster to show England internationals and FA Cup matches.

Mick McCarthy will have a first-hand view of the World Cup as a television pundit this summer, but the Wolves manager does not believe it is the ideal stage to spot potential new signings.

Former Ireland internationals, head coaches, a World Cup-winning captain will be among RTÉ's stable of pundits for the Rugby World Cup.

The Republic of Ireland's failure to qualify for next year's World Cup has cost them two places while the Czech Republic climbed to second in the latest FIFA world rankings following their play-off victory against Norway last week.

Football Association chairman Geoff Thompson, believes the world game can bring countries together during the current political upheaval.

FIFA ethics investigator Michael Garcia has lost his appeal against the findings which cleared Qatar and Russia to host the 2022 and 2018 World Cups.

The Brazilian Football Federation have confirmed Dunga has been dismissed following the country's elimination from the World Cup.

Fernando Torres handed Spain a lift on the eve of their departure for a World Cup training camp in Austria by working with the rest of the squad for the first time since knee surgery.

Football’s most powerful men were this morning preparing to begin the jousting to decide the number of World Cup berths for each continent.

Billy Stickland of Inpho has picked his favourite pictures from the Rugby World Cup in Japan.

SOUTH AFRICA’S World Cup winning coach, Jake White, pictured, has ruled himself out of the running to succeed Eddie O’Sullivan as Ireland head coach.

THE International Rugby Board has been warned there is a “serious risk” of the global game “going backwards” if the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand is a commercial failure.

Sven-Goran Eriksson reiterated his belief England will triumph in their World Cup quarter-final against Portugal.

Veteran coach Luis Aragones has signed a contract extension that will see him remain in charge of Spain until the end of the 2008 European Championships.

Brian Ashton has retained the team that sent Australia crashing out of the World Cup for Saturday’s semi-final against France.

England striker Michael Owen expects to go to the World Cup “100% fit”.

Leinster coach Michael Cheika has a number of selection calls to make ahead of the provinces home outing in the Heineken Cup this Saturday and insists the World Cup players are integrating well.