Australia

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 […]

0 comments

Germany V Australia Live Thoughts

by Rob McCluskey on June 13, 2010 · 3 comments

Back once again for Sunday’s late game which see’s the Ger­man side look to have another good World Cup cam­paign,  but Aus­tralia stand in their way and have enough qual­ity to get the win. I do write these live and spell check when I have a chance, but you may have to excuse some of […]

3 comments

The Foot­ball Asso­ci­a­tion was once again rocked by scan­dal when Lord Treis­man, chair­man of both the FA and England’s 2018 World Cup bid, was forced to resign after the Mail On Sun­day pub­lished excerpts from a con­ver­sa­tion in which Treis­man accused Spain and Rus­sia of con­spir­ing to bribe offi­cials in South Africa. The com­ments came […]

2 comments

Poll: Who Will Advance From World Cup Group D?

by The Gaffer on December 17, 2009 · 2 comments

Who Will Advance From World Cup Group D?(answers) Who do you think will advance from Group D in the 2010 World Cup? It’s def­i­nitely a dif­fi­cult group fea­tur­ing one of the best teams in Africa, Ghana, as well as the gritty deter­min­ism of Ser­bia, the machine-like Ger­many and the under­dogs Aus­tralia. Cast your vote who […]

2 comments

How about the mes­sage sent by the peo­ple of Sevilla dur­ing the Spain-England friendly.  Thanks to Reuters for this great photo, the mes­sage says, “In Sevilla, we aren’t racists, we are artists.”  So now Ladies & Gen­tle­men, the artistry con­tin­ues with another World Cup Buzz Top 5 for you.  After this past week of international […]

0 comments

Analysis of Bids for 2018 World Cup — Part I

by George Metellus on January 28, 2009 · 1 comment

Over the past few weeks, numer­ous nations have bid for the rights to host the 2018 & 2002 FIFA World Cup. Since the 2018 World Cup is closer most of the news about host nation bids con­cerns the 2018 tour­na­ment. With 2010 in South Africa and 2014 in Brazil,  nations from UEFA, CONCACAF, Asia can […]

1 comment