Spain have been fined 10,000 Swiss francs ($NZ13,020) and the Netherlands 15,000 Swiss francs for the behaviour of their players in last month's World Cup final, FIFA said today.

The Netherlands and Spain have been fined by FIFA for their players' poor discipline in last month's World Cup final in Johannesburg.

THE Netherlands and Spain have been fined by FIFA for their players' poor discipline in a bad-tempered World Cup final.

THE World Cup might be over but we're not ones to let that get in the way of a booze-soaked awards ceremony so here's our post-South Africa 2010 trophies.

Thousands of football fans crammed into central Wellington to show their support for the All Whites' World Cup effort.

England striker Emile Heskey has announced his international retirement following his country's disappointing World Cup campaign.

IT is all over for four more years, but the FourFourTwo Insider lads put their post-World Cup withdrawal to one side to review the Spain-Netherlands final and pick out the tournament highs, lows, star performers and biggest disappointments.

Argentina head coach Diego Maradona is to be offered a new four-year contract.

New Zealand's unbeaten run at the FIFA World Cup has seen it soar 24 spots up the world football rankings to 54th but still short of its best of 47th in 2002.