In the week's least surprising news (ever), England are now destined to win the World Cup.
"All I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football."
Outrage swept across England earlier this year at the prospect of Rome hosting the final of the UEFA Champions League Final.
Members of Australia's "bid team", some of the people working to bring the FIFA World Cup to Australian shores in 2018 or 2022, fly to Switzerland this weekend.
Right minded people - and there must be a few of you out there, surely - will prefer Manchester City be relegated from the Premier League this season.
Quotes, chaos, drama, soap, egos, idiots, and entertainment.
It's a great time for football in Australia - except for one thing we dare not talk about.
Thankfully, Cristiano Ronaldo's soap opera transfer saga was painlessly short this year. But that just left more time for suffering elsewhere.
This weekend, David Beckham will run on to the pitch with AC Milan. Unfortunately for him, he'll be wearing a Los Angeles Galaxy shirt.
80,000 Spaniards can't be wrong. Can they?
If they could, would Australia's Indigenous kids want to be David Beckham?
Last week's win by the USA over Spain has wider implications than just another case of flukey giant killing.
And on the seventh day, we finally got some truth.
It's official: the world has gone mad.

Matthew Hall has reported from three World Cups and watched Australians play football in Zagreb, Madrid, Milan, Montevideo, and Wigan. He once drove around Bondi in a Hyundai Excel with Harry Kewell.
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