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Materazzi denies calling Zidane "terrorist"

Mon, July 10th 2006: Italian defender Marco Materazzi has denied a report that he had called Zinedine Zidane a "dirty terrorist" seconds before the French captain head-butted him in Sunday's World Cup final. » Read more

World Cup winners return home

Mon, July 10th 2006: Italy's World Cup soccer team has returned home as an entire nation prepares to give them a triumphant heroes' welcome. » Read more

Shamed Zidane wins Golden Ball award

Mon, July 10th 2006: Zinedine Zidane has been awarded the Golden Ball as the best player at the World Cup despite his sending off in the final last night. » Read more

Fifa say video not used in Zidane case

Mon, July 10th 2006: Fifa are insisting video replays played no part in Zinedine Zidane's sending off in last night's World Cup final defeat to Italy. » Read more

Graceful verse ends with a howl

Mon, July 10th 2006: World Cup Final: World Cup finals should be like an elegant word placed at the end of the last line of the last verse of an epic poem. The word should be just right and when it is read there should be no choice but to pause in wonder as all that has gone before makes sweet sense. » Read more

Italy stand tall on top of the world

Mon, July 10th 2006: World Cup Final/ Italy 1 France 1 (aet) Italy win 5-3 on penalties: Twelve years on from the agony of a penalty shoot-out defeat by Brazil in Pasadena six after the their dramatic extra-time loss to the French in the final of Euro 2000, Italy were crowned champions of the world for a fourth time last night after a game that lacked a little of the quality we might have hoped for but still produced a spectacularly dramatic finale to this competition. » Read more

Destiny kind to tired team

Mon, July 10th 2006: World Cup Final: Sadly, this World Cup final will forever be remembered more for the sending-off of Zidane than for anything else. Let me say it straight away, Zidane deserved to go, it was a clear red-card offence and the Argentinian referee Horacio Elizondo had no option but to send him off. » Read more

Germany bow out on a high note

Mon, July 10th 2006: Third/Fourth place playoff/ Germany 3 Portugal 1: Hosts Germany bowed out of the World Cup on a high on Saturday, defeating Portugal 3-1 in the third-place match with two goals from Bastian Schweinsteiger. The 21-year-old scored with two spectacular long-range efforts and hit a powerful free-kick which was deflected into his own net by Portugal midfielder Petit. » Read more

Der Kaiser outshines the Blazer

Mon, July 10th 2006: Emmet Malone looks back on a tournament that showed the Germans in a favourable light, especially Franz Beckenbauer. » Read more

Four weeks of pressure that make or break a man

Mon, July 10th 2006: Tom Humphries on the managerial winners and losers of Germany 2006. » Read more

Tracking back takes toll all round

Mon, July 10th 2006: World Cup TV View: 'We have another take to break," said Michael Lyster at half-time in the Armagh v Donegal game yesterday, when we briefly swapped codes. We wouldn't even have noticed the error if it wasn't for Joe Brolly advising him to take his time and try again. » Read more

You Had To Be There

Mon, July 10th 2006: Mary Hannigan's World Cup Speak ... "Don't forget, all this time those 24 oversized women are hanging from 30 and 40 metres above the stadium." - Jimmy Magee spots damsels in distress during the opening ceremony. » Read more

New Germany almost fit to be hugged

Mon, July 10th 2006: Locker Room: We're in Potsdam, a weird little Disneyfied town where Churchill and Truman and Stalin once stood for that famous post-war photo, two of them smoking as they discussed how to carve up Europe so that Potsdam itself would become a Soviet garrison. » Read more

Zidane exits stage left

Sun, July 9th 2006: Italy defeated France on penalties in the World Cup final after the teams finished level at 1-1 after extra time in a dramatic encounter in which French playmaker Zinedine Zidane was sent off. » Read more

Klinsmann wants time to consider future

Sun, July 9th 2006: Despite thousands of fans chanting his name and former critic Franz Beckenbauer pleading with him to continue, Juergen Klinsmann will take more time to decide whether to stay on as Germany coach. » Read more

Last hurrah as hosts bow out on a high

Sat, July 8th 2006: Germany 3 Portugal 1: Bastian Schweinsteiger bagged a stunning brace as Germany secured a third-placed World Cup finish with a win over Portugal in Stuttgart. » Read more

Rooney gets two-match ban

Sat, July 8th 2006: Wayne Rooney received a two-match ban by Fifa for stamping on Ricardo Carvalho in England's World Cup quarter-final defeat by Portugal. » Read more

Let the final great act commence

Sat, July 8th 2006: World Cup Final: You can just about imagine how thoroughly unimaginable the hype is. After a month of hyperbole and grand opera, the stage is left to a few disparate characters whose achievements are significant but whose legacy will be determined by an hour and a half of football in Hitler's old playground. » Read more

Italy to edge intriguing finale

Sat, July 8th 2006: France v Italy: The occasional glimpse of blue on the busy streets of Berlin serves as a quiet reminder that there is still unfinished business here in a city so vast and sprawling that in certain parts it seems even a World Cup final could pass unnoticed. » Read more

Lippi's timing just couldn't be better

Sat, July 8th 2006: Italy to win. Let me say it straight away, I think Italy will beat France tomorrow and for at least three reasons. » Read more

End of a journey nonpareil

Sat, July 8th 2006: Tom Humphries reflects on the life and dramatic times of Zinedine Zidane - and on the possibility of the ultimate final act » Read more

Sat, July 8th 2006