A player who has spent a decade in professional football in Greece is set to be picked for the All Whites.

The Premier League are considering legal action against Fifa after their recommendation to move the 2022 World Cup to November and December threatened to wipe out the traditional English Christmas fixture list.

Liverpool survived three penalty appeals to boost their bid for a top-four finish in the English Premier League with a contentious 2-0 win at Southampton yesterday.

“The 2022 Fifa World Cup was bid for and awarded to Qatar as a summer tournament. The prospect of a winter World Cup is neither workable nor desirable for European domestic football.”

There are almost two million registered male football players in France. Of those, a few thousand are professional and about 800 play in Ligue 1, the top echelon.

The Wellington Phoenix are stretching their focus well beyond the first team, as they aim to build a base for the future.

The Wellington Phoenix have gone from being the flavour of the month to a team which desperately needs to rediscover its winning touch.

Wellington Phoenix coach Ernie Merrick has watched his players being manhandled for the past two weeks by opposition sides and he is sick of it.

Liverpool have waited a long time to avenge the famous FA Cup semifinal defeat of 1990 and yesterday they fought back admirably.