Argentina

Who would have expected Ger­many to score the best goal of the 2010 World Cup so far? Plus, they scored it in such a way that it looked like a goal rem­i­nis­cent of a Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi high­light reel. But this time, it was Bas­t­ian Schwe­in­steiger who drib­bled past four Argentina play­ers and […]

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Today’s match-up between Ger­many and Argentina isn’t sim­ply a World Cup soc­cer match. It’s also part of the Diego Maradona “show,” where we get a chance to watch this mag­netic char­ac­ter to see what he’ll do next either on or off the field. Watch­ing Argentina, I get a sense that both the play­ers and coach­ing staff […]

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Referee!!

by Stuart Webb on June 28, 2010 · 1 comment

England’s short stay in South Africa came to an embar­rass­ing end yes­ter­day after­noon. They did not have to endure the heartache of an exit via penal­ties, but they did get their inevitable con­tro­ver­sial moment to hide behind, a moment that will no doubt be used to try and deflect the fact that Eng­land have been […]

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It’s a Knockout

by Stuart Webb on June 25, 2010 · 0 comments

The group stages have con­cluded and now we can all look for­ward to good old fash­ioned knock­out Foot­ball. What this World Cup has pro­vided us so far has been, well, a bit baf­fling really, it has pro­vided lit­tle in the way of gen­uine thrills and excite­ment but a huge amount of intrigue. It has been […]

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The girls from Wowies dressed up in body paint and biki­nis this past week­end to cel­e­brate the debut of the 2010 World Cup. The girls, all of whom are bar­tenders at Wowies Sports Grill in Boca Raton, Florida, dressed in the col­ors of some of the top teams in the tour­na­ment includ­ing Argentina, Ger­many, Mex­ico, USA […]

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So they almost didn’t make it, but in the end won the last two games to make sure they would be part of the World Cup party. It all came down to the final match to get through though. They had to win in Mon­te­v­ideo for the first time in 33 years to make sure […]

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What do George Best, Ryan Giggs, Eric Can­tona, George Weah and Alfredo Di Ste­fano all have in com­mon? They were all world class play­ers in their prime but never got the chance to show peo­ple their tal­ents on the biggest stage of them all — the World Cup. The fact that there are only so […]

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