South Africa 2010

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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Why Italy Had To Lose In Such A Disgraceful Way

by Sebastian Shepard on June 26, 2010 · 3 comments

  After watch­ing the Ital­ian national team’s dis­as­trous exit from the World Cup, I could not help but think that such a flac­cid per­for­mance was required not just once, but twice.  Why?  The myth of the 2006 cham­pi­ons has pun­ished la Nazionale for far too long, and such a pow­er­ful story like being ‘i campioni […]

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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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France V South Africa Live Thoughts

by Rob McCluskey on June 22, 2010 · 6 comments

Today sig­nals the start of the final games in the World Cup finals group stage and we’re bound to start see jubi­la­tion and early heart­break in the com­ing week. The first group to com­plete their three game sched­ule is one of the most talked about set of sides in this World Cup and an interesting […]

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South Africa V Mexico Thoughts Live

by Rob McCluskey on June 11, 2010 · 2 comments

I know many web­sites (in Eng­land atleast) give live com­men­tary updates, which leads peo­ple to almost break the refresh but­ton on their com­puter, but I thought that con­sid­er­ing I have been mas­sively excited for this moment for the past year at least, i’d give it a go and let you know updates from the game […]

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It’s Not Africa’s Cup Anymore…

by Rob McCluskey on June 4, 2010 · 2 comments

The 2010 World Cup cre­ated quite a lot of excite­ment, mainly due to the fact it was the first World Cup to be hosted in the con­ti­nent of Africa, and the most suit­able venue was South Africa, due to it hav­ing a rather strong econ­omy. There are always hic­cups in the process, and the odd […]

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What is on paper a strong team could end up being a weak one when tested by a tricky oppo­nent. How the play­ers gel and work together, how effec­tive the coach is in bring­ing the best out of play­ers, the strength of the defen­sive line and often the rise of  a rel­a­tive unknown to help […]

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