It seems Ferrari have escaped further punishment for using banned team orders, so just the $100K fine and that’s it for being a little too blatant in manipulating the result of the race. No real…
Posts tagged Germany
Spain v’s Holland
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…
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…
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.
Five days in and…
We are five days into the World Cup, I’ve watched about half the game fully and highlights or radio commentary of most of the rest. The football has been largely Ok ,but no better. Teams…
Time for a little reflection.
There has been time for a little reflection and I’ve got a few further thoughts on the draw – not to be unkind to any country, but if you could pick three countries to play…