England’s World Cup campaign has got off to a bad start after fly-half star Jonny Wilkinson suffered a twisted ankle in training today.

Argentina qualified for the World Cup in France next year after beating Uruguay 26-0 in a Buenos Aires qualifier.

England have formally ruled Harlequins wing David Strettle out of their World Cup campaign.

Ireland U19s have beaten Scotland by five wickets to qualify for the U19 Cricket World Cup in 2004.

Ireland play the Netherlands in Pretoria today as part of the World Cup qualifying tournament in South Africa.

Denis Lynch has finished fifth at the last major showjumping event of 2008.

Ireland 1 Spain 1

Brazil have officially submitted their bid to host the 2014 World Cup.

Bosses are apparently "panicking" over the disruption the World Cup will cause to their workers.

Christian Vieri has scored his fourth goal of the World Cup to put Italy ahead in their clash with Korea.

Over 80,000 fans are packed into the Azadi Stadium in Tehran for the crucial second leg of the World Cup play-off between Ireland and Iran.

England football captain David Beckham is to be hypnotised into believing he will clinch World Cup victory, according to reports.

Brazil has been chosen by the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) as its sole candidate to host the 2014 World Cup.

FIFA has committed to carrying out blood tests for banned drugs at next year’s World Cup and biological profiling for all players at the tournament which can indicate doping.

Despite controversy regarding the voting process involved in the awarding of the 2022 World up finals to Qatar, FIFA has announced the first ever festive World Cup Final.

Ireland could be set to join a host of top teams in the 2nd group of seeds ahead of Saturday weeks draw for the World Cup Finals in Japan and Korea.

England 2 Wales 0

South Korea v USA