Archive for June, 2010

Awesome conflict between Gabby Heinze and the cameraman after Tevez ‘scored’ the 1st goal against Mexico yesterday. I laughed out loud when I saw this live: Read my full thoughts here.

I would love to be on the England bench in the World Cup. Such entertainment:

American celebrations after Donovan’s goal. Awesome, just awesome.

Raymond Domenech continued his embarrassing run as head coach of France by refusing to shake the hand of South African head coach Carlos Alberto Parreira. Read my full article here.

Beautiful short film:

A very accurate depiction.

3rd time’s a charm. The World Cup finally got it right today as we finally saw some entertaining football. The day started with Algeria taking on Slovenia in a rather dull match similar to the ones before it. Luckily, we had a winner as Algeria’s goalkeeper Faouzi Chaouchi made a ‘Robert Green’ like error letting [...]

South Africa considers vuvuzela ban: From BBC: World Cup 2010: South Africa ponders vuvuzela ban South Africa’s World Cup organising chief Danny Jordaan may ban vuvuzelas from inside stadiums after complaints from broadcasters and supporters. The constant sound of the high-pitched horn-like instrument has so far drowned out much of the atmosphere-generating singing usually associated [...]

Well, it’s a bit far-fetched for the U.S. to make the final of the World Cup. But it’s a fact that the US have been a proud team everytime they’ve hit  the pitch in a major tournament. Overrated by the biased American media, and underrated by the rest of the World, the U.S. played a fantastic game [...]

A disappointing first day. 4 year countdown: over. Venue: Johannesburg (Soccer City). Stadium Capacity: 90, 000 Opening Ceremony: Boring, and presented in front of a half-empty stadium blowing in their vuvuzelas. Here are highlights from the two matches today. I’m sure it’ll pick up tomorrow with the England – USA match. South Africa – Mexico (kicked off [...]