The final is tomorrow morning Pacific time, neither Spain or Holland have ever won the tournament. Holland has been close as defeated finalists twice under Cruyff. A lot of new ground has been broken over…
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England Postmortem – Chapter 79
Typically when England go out the papers will fill the back pages with phrases like “brave”, “a team of heroes” or something along those lines. There are exceptions, in 2002 after Beckhams sending off against…
24 Hours in Sounderland
I worked late yesterday, I was not having a great day and did not go into the office until after watching Spain beat Paraguay. It’s been a rough couple of weeks, I was working deep…
Beckenbauer in new rant against ‘stupid’ England
So the headline in todays Daily Mail reads, it’s more than a little inflammatory, but this is a big game between two teams with history, a lot of history. The actual quote was ‘Stupidly, the…
It’s Germany!
And England won the World Cup. The Germans (of course) didn’t agree with the linesmen, and to this day feel they were cheated out of the World Cup.
Europe v’s South America
With everything going on I could not sleep, in a vague attempt to avoid counting sheep I was looking at the World Cup and the relative under performance of the European teams along with the…
Wrapped up in St George
There is something inherently masochistic about being English.
A positive sporting experience today…
A nice change of pace this evening after one of the worst England performances I can remember, the game I shall mention no more… OK, no more than once more any way. Tonight was my…
Last Weekend…
Last Saturday lunchtime Englishmen all over North America pulled on the three lions, went to the bar, sang Go Save the Queen and expected England to do the business over the hosts. The Three Lions…
Why ‘keepers are a little differant
I’ve played football in the past, it was organized and just for fun. I was a goalkeeper and I was not very good. But I knew how to have fun and slowly got better. Even…