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Sgint – Sherman Cymru
February 10, 2012 15:02 -
AWEMA – a failure of governance
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The show must go on
February 10, 2012 07:02 -
The Welsh re-Development Agency
February 9, 2012 07:02 -
An excuse to do nothing
February 8, 2012 07:02
Archive for the ‘World Cup Open Blog’ Category
Right teams, wrong game
THE World Cup may have got the finalists it deserved but, for sure, we deserved a better final to crown this classic curate’s egg of a competition. We could only shrug, shoulder the sky…and drink our ale. Where we had hoped for the crisp passing and attacking guile of Iniesta and Xavi, or for the [...]
Pride of a continent
BLISS is it in this dawn to be alive, and tomorrow for the football loving fans of Amsterdam or Barcelona, once the fuzzy haze of the hangover has gone and the waking disbelief has dispersed, it will be very heaven. The World Cup came alive once the sudden death competition began. That first fortnight felt [...]
Did Nike write their futures?
You think the curse of Nike is merely an internet confection? Think again.
It’s Argentina…
AFTER two and a half weeks of slugging it out over three group matches per group and eight knockout matches we have the final eight teams for the 2010 World Cup Finals and it’s time for me to really stick my neck out and make a projection of the final overall winner (some 14 days [...]
Out-classed. Out-thought. Out
Germany 4 England 1 Let’s face the facts. Even if Frank Lampard’s brilliant effort had counted, as it should have, it does not oscure how dominant Germany were. Fabio Capello’s team played well for about quarter of an hour but anyone can be famous for 15 minutes. Germany were so superior, they could have doubled [...]
Maradona and me
FEW characters – let alone few footballers – have quite troubled the collective English psyche in recent times as much as Diego Armando Maradona. The crux of this paradox – which England’s detractors (that it, pretty much everyone outside of its borders) delight in – is focused on just three minutes of football one hot [...]
‘Anyone But England’? It’s England’s own creation
ENGLAND are currently playing their old enemy, Germany, but whichever team Fabio Capello’s men play against there is an unknown number of their fellow British citizens will be cheering for whoever is on the opposing side. Their slogan being, “Anyone But England”. Just one question – why? No other subject seems to generate more indignation [...]
And on into the knockout stages
ALL the group matches are over and once again – despite the huge surprise of the Italians being knocked out, along with France and the hosts – the law of averages still managed to project 12 out of the last 16 correctly. And so we come to the business end of the competition, where it’s [...]
A victory once more for the old world order
WHETHER the four-year-old A.E. Housman had an opinion on the newly formed football association for association football, I don’t know, but as he said, “The house of delusions is cheap to build, but drafty to live in.” He also said, “Ale man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think,” so [...]
A confused American in Wales celebrates
ALMOST robbed twice by two different refs, Team USA went on to top the division (err, I mean group C…) and earn a berth in the Sweet 16 (no wait that’s the NCAA basketball March Madness) of the World Series of Soccer (no, no that’s baseball we arrogantly call the World Series even though 31 [...]
History affirmed
Slovenia 0 England 1 HOW quickly it all turns. England had history on their side going into the match. Six times in the past they have needed a positive result in their final World Cup group game and six times have they managed it. Today’s match against Slovenia was no different. When push came to [...]
Kdor ne skace ni Slovenzic*
England don’t deserve their fan’s support. Here’s hoping little Slovenia put them to the sword
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