World Cup

Farewell Paul “The Psychic” Octopus…

by Rob McCluskey on July 12, 2010 · 0 comments

The world of foot­ball has shed a col­lec­tive tear today, after it was revealed that Paul the octo­pus, from Ger­many, is ready for the quiet life, by retir­ing from the psy­chic busi­ness. Paul the psy­chic octo­pus has become as much a talk­ing point in some coun­tries as vuvuze­las, and his incred­i­ble pre­dict­ing abil­i­ties have made him […]

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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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Wher­ever you live in the world, how will you be expe­ri­enc­ing the World Cup Final today? Will you be watch­ing it at home? And if so, have you pre­pared any­thing spe­cial for the game such as beers, food or rit­u­als such as watch­ing World Cup games before the final kicks off. For me, I’ll be spending […]

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Times have got­ten so bad for Eng­land and the Foot­ball Asso­ci­a­tion that they’ve launched a new Eng­land home jer­sey that fea­tures, for the first time, spon­sor­ship on the front of the shirt. The Foot­ball Asso­ci­a­tion is in such deep finan­cial trou­ble that they had to resort to not one, but three dif­fer­ent spon­sors to buy space […]

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Michel Pla­tini has been rushed to the hos­pi­tal in South Africa after a sus­pected heart attack forced him to keel over while hav­ing din­ner with guests includ­ing Ger­ard Houl­lier and Andy Rox­bor­ough. Accord­ing to reports from The Guardian, Pla­tini was under­stood to be con­scious. Pla­tini last suf­fered a heart prob­lem in 2001, which kept him […]

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Ben Shires and the Wrapped Up team are back to wrap up the round in which four teams became two — the 2010 FIFA World Cup semi finals. There’s a trippy recre­ation of the Van Bron­ck­horst goal with com­men­tary from a cou­ple of Dutch ston­ers, PLUS we see why nobody would refuse an offer from […]

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