England’s medical staff will assess the state of Gareth Barry’s ankle injury on Tuesday ahead of Capello making a decision on whether he will be able to be included in the squad for South Africa.

The practice of penalty kick “feinting”, i.e. a penalty taker faking a shot before taking the real kick to confuse their opponents, has been banned by the International Football Association Board in advance of the World Cup 2010 tournament.

The latest World Cup country to put forward its preliminary 30 man squad is Algeria, who join England, the USA and Slovenia in Group C. Algeria are planning to add another five players to the preliminary squad on the 11th May, just ahead of the team starting their World Cup training camp in Switzerland.

32 national teams have qualified for the 2010 World Cup finals, with expectations varying wildly. The odds for the outright winner stretch from around 4-1 for favourites Spain right out to 2000-1 for rank outsiders New Zealand.

The decision to make World Cup 2010 tickets available from 11 sales centres across South Africa over the counter and for cash is certainly having the desired effect of improving on previously disappointing sales figures.

According to a Jihadi website, an Islamic terrorist faction with links to Al-Qua’eda hopes to attack matches during the 2010 World Cup with undetectable bombs.

Tickets for all 64 games in the 2010 World Cup finals tournament are now available for people in the host nation of South Africa to buy for cash. This even includes tickets to the climactic final itself, which will be held on the 11th of July in Johannesburg’s Soccer City stadium.

It is confirmed that this year’s FIFA mascot will be made in China, rather than in South Africa. This was released by the clothing research agency ReDress and cited in a Business Report article last week while public concern has been aired about it through various media channels.

FIFA has now gone through the next (fourth) batch of sales; another total sale of over 400,000 tickets, making it a total of over two million tickets sold till now (including tour operators and the PMA sales). According to FIFA, this amounts to two thirds of the total tickets available in general.

We are happy to announce that all is going as planned for the World Cup organisers and it promises to be a memorable show. The South Africans are definitely ready to offer their outmost hospitality and a super hosting through the event.