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The Welsh re-Development Agency
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An excuse to do nothing
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When the thin blue line becomes a garrote
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Providing a useful sex education
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A mirrored darkness
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Posts Tagged ‘World Cup’
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 [...]
Apathetic Welsh or militant Catalans?
What made 1.5 million people protest on the streets of Barcelona – and could anything get the Welsh to turn out in similar proportion?
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 [...]
‘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 [...]
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 [...]
A World Cup of two halves?
THE VUVUZELA has proven to have a longer life span in the 2010 World Cup than former champions France. Good. Their football was appalling, their attitude dreadful and they prevented us from seeing vuvuzela blowing leprechauns on the terraces. With the French out of the tournament we can once again turn our attention to the [...]
Two down, one to go
SO, TWO rounds of matches down and the first round law of averages were clearly wrong (hence the beauty of being able to update these numbers as more games are played). For instance, did anyone see the Serbs beating the Germans 1-0? Or what about the Slovenes holding the Americans to a 2 – 2 [...]
What a shame the pundits can’t go out in the first round
I KNOW the World Cup is only just over a week old and I know I should probably just lighten up and join in with the spirit of the thing but I have just about had enough of the endless, monotonous noise ruining my enjoyment of the world’s biggest football tournament. No, I’m not talking [...]
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