Articles tagged with "general-banter"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 7th, 2006
The World Cup is like a giant shop window. Plenty of players enter the tournament with a fairly low profile, but a few good performances ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 7th, 2006
Do not adjust your television set on Sunday. The ball that will be used when France and Italy meet in the World Cup final ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Tom Barry | Jul 7th, 2006
Sunday is the day when football supporters around the world will watch Italy and France battle it out to see who gets the right to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 6th, 2006
While the overall quality of play hasn't been as good as I would have liked, this World Cup has produced a fair number of games ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 6th, 2006
FIFA has releaed the list of the 10 players who have been short-listed for the Golden Ball Award presented to the tournament's most outstanding player. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 6th, 2006
You don't have to go back very far in the record books to find a rivalry between Italy and France. The two teams met ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 6th, 2006
With no games over the next couple days we will have plenty of time to talk about Italy and France. But it also gives ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jul 6th, 2006
31 – Number of tackles by Italy defender Gennaro Gattusso, the most of any remaining player in the tournament.
12— World Cup appearances for France
1 – ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jul 5th, 2006
The sheer speed of this new breed of soccer is an intimidating sight. Under a burning midday sun, ten players at the Streetfootballworld Festival '06 ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 5th, 2006
Berlin police are on the lookout for the person or people responsible for leaving footballs filled with concrete around the city. The balls are ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 5th, 2006
I remember the moment well. It was in the group stages. The teams were just about to kickoff when the television cameras captured ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 4th, 2006
Yesterday, we showed you how the German and Italian media have been slugging it out over their respective roles in Torsten Frings being suspended for ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 4th, 2006
A few kilometres away from where I am typing this people are already starting to gather for today's semifinal between Italy and Germany even though ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 4th, 2006
This World Cup will be remembered for a few things and one of them will be the record number of yellow and red cards handed ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 4th, 2006
If you are having trouble deciding who you want to win today's semifinal between Italy and Germany, the Pope has a novel solution for you. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 4th, 2006
Fans of Brazil's football team are not used to seeing their team lose very often, but that doesn't mean they don't know how to react ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 3rd, 2006
It is one of the great moments of the World Cup. The referees lead the two teams out of the tunnel and onto the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 3rd, 2006
Staring at these jelly beans brings back such found memories from the Round of 16 and the quarter-finals. Photo source.
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 3rd, 2006
The final chapter has not been closed on the 2006 World Cup and already the next tournament in the headlines. There were reports in ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 3rd, 2006
A few months ago, I asked whether you thought this World Cup would be dominated by teams from Europe. Those of you who said ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jul 3rd, 2006
In Hamburg, the scene is familiar. The main fan festival for the Germany vs. Argentina game is sold out. It’s shut down, closed, better-luck-next-time-buddy, with ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 3rd, 2006
Watching a player like Thierry Henry move around the pitch is sometimes like watching poetry in motion. But little did you probably know that ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 3rd, 2006
I would imagine that some of you reading this blog have probably told a fib or two during the World Cup so that you could ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Tom Barry | Jul 3rd, 2006
Frequently in the matches we have seen thus far, there have been players exchanging words with each other or with the referee. It doesn’t ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 2nd, 2006
With four more games remaining, we can only hope that we will see some goals that will be among the best of the tournament. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jul 2nd, 2006
For an unplanned odyssey into the underworld of scalping, the Hamburg quarterfinals were a dream come true. No, not the dream I had last night, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 2nd, 2006
The scuffle that took place between Argentina and Germany following Friday's match was not the only thing to give a black eye to an otherwise ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 1st, 2006
No, that isn't one of the hooligans locked up in a Gelsenkirchen jail. Nor is it Wayne Rooney preparing for the biggest match of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 1st, 2006
With a pair of games today featuring some of the planet's more storied teams, I can't help to think back to World Cup tournaments gone ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 1st, 2006
Yesterday we saw Germany play Argentina, two teams linked together by World Cup history. Today we will see a similar historical tie with Brazil ...
