Social media scrum as Ireland kick off their Rugby World Cup campaign

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Paul Emerick’s World Cup is over after the USA centre failed in his appeal to overturn a five-match suspension.

Former World Cup referee Graham Poll has claimed the game’s top officials have been told to “look out for” England striker Peter Crouch.

Number eight Vasco Uva will lead Portugal in their historic World Cup clash with Scotland.

Portugal suffered a major scare yesterday after Cristiano Ronaldo was forced to cut short a training session.

Jens Lehmann might face a stint on the sidelines after picking up a painful ankle injury in Germany´s 4-2 victory over Costa Rica.

Roy Keane is set to miss Ireland's crucial World Cup qualifier against Switzerland next month after he broke a bone in his foot yesterday.

Scotland forward James McFadden has declared their European Championships qualifying campaign starts now and urged veterans David Weir and Jackie McNamara to stay and fight on.

Brian Kerr admitted his Republic of Ireland players struggled to match France physically during the 1-0 defeat in Dublin.

The United States will be without captain Claudio Reyna for the World Cup qualifiers against El Salvador and Panama.

The Ireland U21 team and management have regretfully announced that Fiach O’Loughlin of Shannon and Peter O’Brien of UCC have been withdrawn from the U21 World Cup as a result of injury.

French coach Roger Lemerre has picked Thierry Henry, David Trezeguet, Sylvain Wiltord and Youri Djorkaeff in a formidable looking starting line-up for the opening match in Group A at the Seoul World Cup Stadium.

Victoria Beckham will not be flying out to the Far East to watch England play in the World Cup.

Sol Campbell believes that "living on the edge" will bring the best out of him and the rest of the England team in the knockout stages of the World Cup.