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Adam Wakefield
It's the end of August, and the English Premier League (EPL -- not to be confused with the IPL. Bloody acronyms) has only after two weeks swung into full swing. What should we expect? More goals, excitement, controversy and unpredictability? There ha... |
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Views: 259 | 14 Comments » | posted on Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 | Tags: Arsenal, Chelsea, English Premiership, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur
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Joseph Misika
Various football leagues around the world kicked off this weekend, and isn't this just happening at the right time? People were just getting over their World Cup hangovers, and now we face another 10 months or so of top soccer all the way ... |
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Views: 192 | 1 Comment » | posted on Sunday, August 15th, 2010 | Tags: Alex Ferguson, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newscastle United, Sunderland, Tottenham hotspur, West Brom, Wigan
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Adam Wakefield
I don't know about you but SA is pretty boring without the World Cup isn't it?
Not really, but the Rainbow Nation has been experiencing the lamest of July hangovers. Doctors are calling it WCW (and it has nothing to do with wrestling) -- World Cup... |
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Views: 184 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | Tags: 2010 FIFA World Cup, South Africa
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Craig Urquhart
Four years ago, Project 2010 was launched with the aim of providing a free flow of information relating to the preparations for the 2010 World Cup. In our mission statement, we declared our confidence that South Africa would host the greatest World C... |
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Views: 188 | 1 Comment » | posted on Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 | Tags: 2010 World Cup, crime, John Carlin, Sepp Blatter, unity
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Richard Calland
South Africa 2010 has been a success. It's official. The world's second best newspaper (after the Mail & Guardian of course), the Financial Times, said so today. In an editorial. So it must be true. The naysayers and racists were wrong; Africa ca... |
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Views: 215 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, July 9th, 2010 | Tags: none
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Reader Blog
By Ian Dickinson
A hollow thud resonated as the ball thumped against the crossbar -- a thud that all but silenced the African continent. Asamoah Gyan looked bewildered as did the many that had put their faith in Ghana's Black Stars. The penalty ha... |
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Views: 326 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, July 9th, 2010 | Tags: none
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Reader Blog
By Sphiwe Hlongane
Vincente del Bosque's men stayed true to themselves and the beautiful game, I still don't know why Germany decided to employ defensive tactics in that game instead of playing the free flowing attacking game that they have been d... |
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Views: 146 | 4 Comments » | posted on Thursday, July 8th, 2010 | Tags: Soccer World Cup, spain
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Adam Wakefield
June 11 seems like an age ago doesn't it? It was only yesterday that us South Africans lost our collective shit in celebrating Siphiwe Tshabalala's goal against Mexico in the opening match of the 2010 World Cup at Soccer City Johannesburg. Since the... |
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Views: 150 | No Comments » | posted on Thursday, July 8th, 2010 | Tags: 2010 FIFA World Cup, finals, Holland, South Africa, Spain, vuvuzela
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Richard Calland
To have lost 3-0 would have been better, far better, than this. Sport, mirroring life, can be cruel. Very cruel.
Ghana had showed such character and discipline in withstanding Uruguay's sustained initial onslaught, carefully restoring parity in p... |
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Views: 327 | 1 Comment » | posted on Monday, July 5th, 2010 | Tags: Balck Stars, Ghana, World Cup
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Richard Calland
The biggest game of the tournament is upon us. Every World Cup has a game such this -- a final outside of the final so to speak. When the two teams that are probably the best -- or, at least, the most effective and on-form -- meet. Brazil vs Holland ... |
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Views: 59 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, July 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Ghana, Mensah, Uruguay, World Cup
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