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Who will England blame?

by Esther Song on June 28, 2010 · 10 comments

The Three Lions are land­ing back on their home turf today and before they even deplane, the Eng­lish media will be on them like hounds. Their defeated faces will be splashed across the tabloids with hor­ri­bly corny puns sim­i­lar to the one shown in Nike’s ‘Write the Future Ad’. And the whole coun­try is going […]

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Love them or hate them, the Vuvuze­las are here to stay in South Africa. At least that’s the lat­est stance from FIFA. How­ever, that doesn’t help the soc­cer fans around the world who are going nuts because of the dron­ing sound of the vuvuze­las that are ruin­ing the TV view­ing expe­ri­ence. On the other hand, […]

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  As the first week­end of World Cup action draws to a close, the tour­na­ment has proven itself to be thor­oughly cap­ti­vat­ing.  While the South African, USA and Ghana teams may have cre­ated the most unfore­seen results with the ball at their feet, there have been some tremen­dously pos­i­tive sur­prises apart from the play­ers and […]

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Amidst the bat­tle for the right to host the 2018 World Cup, England’s bid was dealt a severe blow as British paper, The Mail On Sun­day decided to run a story which stated that Lord Tries­man (who at the time was the head of the Eng­lish F.A and the Eng­land World Cup bid) sug­gested that […]

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How the World Cup Made Me an Obsessive

by Eric Altshule on May 20, 2010 · 7 comments

  When you are 11 years old, the word “gay” has a very spe­cific mean­ing.  It has noth­ing to do with homo­sex­u­al­ity.  It is all-purpose adjec­tive that refers to some activ­ity or event that no self-respecting 11 year old boy would want any­thing to do with.  Clas­si­cal music was gay.  Pic­nics with egg salad sandwiches […]

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I have trav­eled in South­ern Africa sev­eral times for busi­ness, and I am always struck when I talk to South Africans about Nel­son Man­dela.  When talk­ing to black South Africans, they look at Man­dela as a hero and the father of their coun­try, but they also have a more nuanced view and remain frus­trated at […]

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FIFA suspend Henry?">Will FIFA suspend Henry?

by Rami Soufi on December 2, 2009 · 0 comments

The con­tro­ver­sial hand­ball by French­man Thierry Henry is still caus­ing shock­waves despite much of the sparks and debates calm­ing down after FIFA ruled out any pos­si­bil­ity of replay­ing the match. In addi­tion, FIFA obvi­ously refused to grant Ire­land an extra spot in South Africa. Adding the Repub­lic of Ire­land to the World Cup draw would […]

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