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USMNT: How Charlie Davies turned from a good player into a brilliant one.
World Cup 2010: USA https://twitter.com/TimHoward2010 This is the problem with communication online; word spreads like wildfire. Within seconds of US striker Eddie Johnson limping off in the Aris game...
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Pienaar is a win-win situation.
Why we should’t be too upset about losing Pienaar. "I will now sell 15 copies of Steven Pienaar" Rob Gordon: I will now sell five copies of “The Three EPs” by The Beta Band. Dick: Go for it. [Rob...
View ArticleVuvuzelas: Stop Moaning
By far more annoying than the drone of thousands of Vuvuzelas is the moaning that surrounds it. Firstly its shows a total disregard for the poor blighters who don’t have the privelage of watching this...
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Everton, England, and 1966 – Garrincha, Ali, Dylan & Ball
When Kurt Cobain was a kid he didn’t know what punk sounded like. Not knowing first hand, he made up his own sound, a rangy sloppy grunge quite different from punk. It was like comparing Johnny Giles...
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England: Just Like Watching Brazil
World Cup 2010: England http://twitter.com/dixiessixty Germany 4-1 England. It was an escape from victory not Escape To Victory, a bust rather than Dambusters. And soon after a stampede of familiar...
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Detroit – Motown is no town for Football
World Cup 2010: USA https://twitter.com/TimHoward2010 “Detroit has a nice smile, it’s just that some of her teeth are missing.” Detroit’s slump comes in more varieties than Heinz Ketchup. She’s an...
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Uruguay’s Luis Suarez is no cheat and doesn’t deserve the boos.
The third-fourth World Cup playoff between Uruguay and Germany was a good game with both teams bouncing from one end of the field to the other – the only thing that marred the game was the consistent...
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How this World Cup could have been a Ghostbusters Tour
Spain: El Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ball Ghostbusters: Bustin' makes me feel good When Fabio Capello first left Milan and went to manage Real Madrid well over a...
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The English Mess
England lost 3-2 to the Netherlands this week. The reaction was very predictable. A swathe of journos and fans shrugged their shoulders and dismissed this as a crapulous England display. They noted...
View ArticleLashings of talent, with a dollop of cheating on the side…
How can such a drab, vanilla performance elicit so much pain and anger? England are the one thing we English football fans can be fickle about. Loyalty is for club sides, despite the to-ing and...
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