Articles tagged with "general-banter"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Aug 9th, 2007
It is hard to take a man who has proven to be as corrupt as Jack Warner seriously, but since he has a firm stranglehold ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 31st, 2007
Everyone knew that Brazil would be the only country bidding to host the 2014 World Cup and Tuesday they made it official. All it ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 31st, 2007
Everyone is talking about Iraq's victory in the 2007 Asian Cup, including US comedian John Stewart and the Daily Show's "Senior Football Correspondent" John Oliver.
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 25th, 2007
Somehow I don't think this is what the Asian Cup tournament organizers had in mind. In a competition that featured Australia, South Korea and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 24th, 2007
One of the great stories of this year's Asian Cup has been Iraq's national team. In a country whose headlines seem more and more ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 25th, 2007
In the continuing controversy over FIFA's decision to ban international soccer matches held at venues over 8,200 feet, it appears that Sepp Blatter is starting ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 21st, 2007
The semifinals of the Gold Cup will be played on Thursday night with the hosts United States playing Canada in one match and Mexico playing ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 20th, 2007
The damn Man is always getting in the way of a good thing. First they make it illegal to sell heroin to schoolchildren and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 14th, 2007
Kicking off on June 26, the Copa America gives us all a chance to take a look at the national teams from South America, Mexico ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 12th, 2007
You know by now that Bolivia is not so pleased with FIFA's decision to ban football matches played at high altitude. The country's president ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | May 29th, 2007
Just when you were ready to trek up to Machu Picchu to see Peru take part in a World Cup qualifier, along comes the killjoys ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Apr 30th, 2007
You can add Italy coach Roberto Donadoni to the list of people who would like to see a restriction on those pesky foreigners playing in ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Apr 17th, 2007
Venezuela doesn't exactly have the best track record in international football. It is the only country in CONMEBOL to have never qualified for a ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Apr 12th, 2007
We all pay a price when we go to the disco. For me, it is the price of embarrassment. Having my pictures taken ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Apr 9th, 2007
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There is only one Ronaldinho. Barcelona's Brazilian midfielder has dazzled us all over the years with his tricks, both subtle ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 14th, 2007
When you read the praise being heaped on Jack Warner after he was elected to a fifth term as CONCACAF president today, you would almost ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 28th, 2007
Every couple of weeks FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter crawls out of his undisclosed cave to give his thoughts on the world's game. Today ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 27th, 2007
The man standing in front of all those cameras and microphones is Jan Leliveld, the lawyer for Russia football coach Guus Hiddink. Undoubtedly the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 21st, 2007
The host of the 2014 World Cup hasn't even been officially announced yet and already things are heating up in the race to host the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 13th, 2007
We've all made fashion mistakes in life. For the first two decades of my existence I insisted that it was perfectly fine to wear ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 9th, 2007
Francesco Totti must be living a full and fulfilling life. The Italian striker says that he is quite content to not play for the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 7th, 2007
A court in Madrid has decided that Spain manager Luis Aragones' remarks a couple years ago about Arsenal striker Thierry Henry and Britain's colonial past ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jan 16th, 2007
While club teams like Chelsea and Manchester United are going to great lengths to win the battle for fans in China, the England national team ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jan 15th, 2007
Like many football fans around the world, FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter was left with a bit of an unpleasant taste in his mouth after ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jan 11th, 2007
As you have probably noticed, we have temporarily shut off comments on World Cup Blog. We have done this because the site was getting ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Dec 19th, 2006
Fresh on the heels of Brazil's bid to host the World Cup in 2014, Colombia has offered up its own bid to FIFA to host ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Dec 13th, 2006
We've seen what his money has done for Chelsea in the English Premier League and now we'll have a chance to see what it can ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Dec 12th, 2006
From finding old friends that you have lost contact with to meeting the mate of your dreams, this little thing called the Internet has a ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Dec 12th, 2006
It is no secret that Brazil wants to host the 2014 World Cup and it is no secret that Brazil is the frontrunner to host ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Dec 1st, 2006
It is hard to imagine Germany's football team wearing anything other than Adidas, but evidently the Swoosh empire is looking to change that. The ...
