Richard Caborn

'Magnificently rude' MP loses cash over blog comments

A Labour MP says he has been stripped of a Parliamentary allowance for making fun of other MPs on his blog. Paul Flynn was told to remove posts including ones calling ex-Labour minister Peter Hain a "shapeshifter" and Lib Dem...

Football: Sir Alex Ferguson should coach the Great Britain football team says ex-sports minister...

Sir Alex Ferguson is Richard Caborn's choice to manage Team GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Photograph: Matthew Peters/Man Utd via Getty Images should be given first refusal to coach the Great Britain football team at the...

Inside Lines: Hope for 2012, but why is FA bid still a no-Coe area?

Hope Powell, the coach of the England women's football team, is a new and worthy addition to the list of "ambassadors" for the FA's 2018 World Cup bid, now becoming as voluminous as a gathering at a Ferrer Rocher soirée. The...

Digger: World Cup 2018 bid organisers begin to talk tactics

The Football Association's 2018 World Cup bid becomes fully operational today with the first board meeting of the company that will run the campaign.The bid company will talk tactics at today's meeting with a briefing as to how...

The FA need more players on board not more executives

The Football Association have made some strange moves in their time from building Wembley to employing Steve McClaren and they now stand on the brink of another expensive mistake: appointing a chief executive when the majority...

Tottenham's new stadium would not qualify as World Cup 2018 venue

Tottenham's planned 60,000-seat arena is likely to lose out on hosting World Cup games to the homelier surrounds of East Anglia and Bristol, should England stage the 2018 tournament. Out with the old: Tottenham look set to move...

Former UN chief Kofi Annan to join England's World Cup 2018 bid

Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations, is poised to become an ambassador for England's 2018 World Cup bid. Friends in high places: Kofi Annan with Pele and Fifa president Sepp Blatter Photo: AP In what...