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World Cup: Ode to Phillip
Phillip, you have gone,
31 nations reflect on what went wrong;
Del Bosque led Spain out of the woods,
Winning in the most deserving of neighbourhoods;
Teams fell away until there was one,
And now Phillip, even you have gone.
Phillip, you have gone,
Like a Brit must exit Wimbledon;
We dined out with Mrs Ball’s, boerewors and pup,
The spirit of Ubuntu ensured [...]
By Tim Sturtridge | Sport | Tuesday, 13 July 2010 at 6:50 pm
World Cup: What next for El Diego?
There’s not many folk returning home from South Africa to be greeted by talk of another statue being erected in their honour, especially after a limp quarter-final exit.
That’s the difference between Diego Armando Maradona and mere mortals. Despite being rumbled as tactically naive in the extreme El Pibe de Oro returned home to hero’s welcome.
Thousands [...]
By Tim Sturtridge | Sport | Monday, 12 July 2010 at 7:32 pm
World Cup: Howard Webb – no good did come of it
When Howard Webb was appointed as the referee for the World Cup final I wrote a piece entitled ‘Howard Webb – no good can come of this’.
It didn’t get the best reception from readers. “Is your life vacuous Mr Rice?”, “This is probably the worst thing I have ever read” and “What absolute rubbish” were [...]
By Simon Rice | Sport | Monday, 12 July 2010 at 6:16 pm
World Cup: Howard Webb did the best he could
The European Champions Spain have become the World Champions for the first time in their first final-and deserved it. They were the better side with better players.
Holland did well to reach the final and had a physical and fouling game plan to stop the Spanish. Arjen Robben still had two great chances to [...]
By Gary Newbon | Sport | Monday, 12 July 2010 at 5:58 pm
Rotten English football – continued
Eight of the 20 Premier League teams are in the control of foreign nationals. This is one of the reasons why the clubs are so resistant to efforts by the FA to get them to pay some attention to the interests of the national team.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Sport | Monday, 12 July 2010 at 11:41 am
Playing the youth teams of Waschbank is my lasting World Cup memory
Expectation Mr Rooney, I’ll give you expectation. Before we’d even put our boots on, the local populace had taken to the street to celebrate our mythical football talents.
Boys had awaited our arrival in the midday sun. As our small convoy finally came into sight on the Matlala Road, deep in the bushveld of Limpopo province [...]
By Ian Burrell | Sport | Monday, 12 July 2010 at 11:30 am
World Cup: El pulpo tenía razón, no hay podio
There’s an upbeat feel to this morning’s headlines in Montevideo despite Uruguay’s seven game run in South Africa ending in defeat to Germany.
One newspaper, El Observador, remarked that Óscar Tabárez’s team leave Port Elizabeth with “with honour intact.” Special reference is made to Diego Forlán striking the crossbar with the last kick of the game [...]
By Tim Sturtridge | Sport | Sunday, 11 July 2010 at 1:00 pm
World Cup: Cruyff, Sekt, nackte Mädchen und ein kühles Bad
Bert van Marwijk could be forgiven for having a sly look at the newspapers this morning after Holland’s appearance in the 1974 World Cup final was so undermined by scurrilous reporting.
On the eve of the Dutch’s game with West Germany the host’s best selling rag Bild-Zeitung ran the story Cruyff, Sekt, nackte Mädchen und ein [...]
By Tim Sturtridge | Sport | Saturday, 10 July 2010 at 5:18 pm
World Cup: Roy Hodgson’s methods approved by Zwide Township
Don’t right off Saturday’s action in Port Elizabeth as a pointless exercise, with pressure off and bags of youthful talent on display I reckon we’re in for a cracker.
The bronze medal match? Not at all, the day’s real action is taking place at Victoria Park Primary School, 5kms away from the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. [...]
By Tim Sturtridge | Sport | Friday, 9 July 2010 at 9:59 pm
World Cup: Spanish victory would save the World Cup
As the World Cup final approaches, the tournament’s perceived success seems to be growing. Before the semi-finals there was a lot of ‘worst ever’ sentiment which personally I think was unfair. There was a strong run by an unfancied team in Uruguay, and the semi-finals showed four teams playing some fantastic football. New stars have [...]
By Neil Forsyth | Sport | Friday, 9 July 2010 at 3:04 pm
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