South Africa

FIFA dodged a mas­sive secu­rity threat Sun­day night after the World Cup Final when a man ran across the pitch and attempted to put a hat on the World Cup tro­phy. The pitch intruder was detained by secu­rity offi­cers and whisked away. How­ever, this raises ques­tions about sta­dium secu­rity. Luck­ily the intruder seemed only intent […]

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It was a long and tense World Cup Final. Spain kept on cre­at­ing chances up front and rifling shots after shots at the Nether­lands, but the Dutch kept the Spaniards out of the game until late in extra time. It only seemed like a mat­ter of time before Spain would score, and score they did […]

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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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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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World Cup Opening Ceremony: Reflections

by Stuart Webb on June 15, 2010 · 1 comment

Ever since Lon­don won the bid for the 2012 Olympics, open­ing cer­e­monies have become of sig­nif­i­cant impor­tance to us Brits, even more so after Beijing’s breath­tak­ing open­ing to the 2008 games. We are in the mid­dle of a reces­sion, all we can cur­rently pro­vide is Fatima Whit­bread and Daley Thomp­son stand­ing on top of an […]

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Since 1990, when Cameroon became the first African nation to reach the Quar­ter Finals of the World Cup, only one other African coun­try has made it to the same point, Sene­gal in 2002. Despite the con­sis­tent leaps in qual­ity, abil­ity and tac­ti­cal atti­tude, Africa has con­sis­tently failed to make the next break­through on the world […]

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Poll: Who Will Advance From World Cup Group A?

by The Gaffer on December 14, 2009 · 6 comments

Who Will Advance From World Cup Group A?(answers) Who do you think will advance from Group A in the 2010 World Cup? It’s a very tough group fea­tur­ing four excel­lent coun­tries. South Africa, as host, will have a lot of pres­sure on them to advance. France will be the most hated team in the World […]

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