"We have to pick ourselves up. We haven't become bad players because of one performance. We'll have to work on our decision making." -- Graeme Smith, January 15 2011.
"We've got to learn from today, pick ourselves up." -- Graeme Smith March 6 2011...
Views: 183 | 1 Comment » | posted on Monday, March 7th, 2011 | Tags: Chennai, choking, Cricket, cricket world cup, England, Graeme Smith, ICC Cricket World Cup, India, South Africa
Explain this to me, Inter Milan and AC Milan, with their combined history of success and passion and pride, are more than happy to share a ground and stadium identity, but Liverpool and Everton cannot find an easy way to do this? Why?
On its own, ...
Views: 225 | 2 Comments » | posted on Sunday, February 20th, 2011 | Tags: AC Milan, Everton, football, home stadium, Inter Milan, Liverpool, Paolo Maldini, San Siro, Stanley Park
So King Kenny goes back to Anfield and gees up the troops to pull fingers from Scouse (and international) arse and get going.
And what happens next? Chelsea reminds them of their place in the 2011 pecking order. A cheeky cash up-front offer for th...
Views: 88 | No Comments » | posted on Saturday, January 29th, 2011 | Tags: Anfield, Chelsea, Fernando Torres, John W Henry, Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool, Roman Abramovich
Finally, all the paperwork and red tape has been cleared and Imran Tahir is set to be a Protea.
This is big news. Why so, you may ask? Because why, as hulle se op die Oos Rand, his international career presents a challenge, not only to himself to ...
Views: 376 | 1 Comment » | posted on Sunday, January 16th, 2011 | Tags: cricket, Imran Tahir, Johan Botha, Paul Adams, preserving Test cricket, Proteas, South Africa, spin bowling
Orlando Pirates coach and Dutch football legend Ruud Krol must think he is in some kind of bizarre dream.
Reports, radio phone-ins and internet forums have seen him painted as some kind of dead man walking. Which to be fair is not an unusual posit...
Views: 426 | 4 Comments » | posted on Sunday, December 12th, 2010 | Tags: Dr Irvin Khoza, football, Kaizer Chiefs, Kaizer Motaung, MTN 8, Orlando Pirates, Ruud Krol, soccer, Telkom Knockout Cup
Four weeks ago, if you had asked Bok supporters what they expected from the 2010 Grand Slam Tour given:
1. A rancid Tri-Nations;
2. An under fire coaching team;
3. Thirteen top internationals missing;
4. Key players at the end of a gruelling se...
Views: 493 | 5 Comments » | posted on Sunday, November 28th, 2010 | Tags: All Blacks, England, Francois Pienaar, Grand Slam tour, John Smit, New Zealand, Peter de Villiers, rugby, Rugby World Cup, Springboks, Victor Matfield
The 2010 Tri-Nation has been a disappointment. Some would even call it a disaster, and I would not disagree with them much.
See for me it's not that the Boks surrendered their crown to the All-Blacks. Or that we lost so heavily in the Antipodes. J...
Views: 238 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 | Tags: John Smit, Peter de Villiers, Rugby, Springboks, Tri Nations, World Cup
So with Carlos Alberto Parriera's tenure as Bafana coach at an end, questions are inevitably being raised as to who should succeed him in accepting Safa's poisoned chalice.
As is usual the clamour is growing for a local coach to succeed Parreira...
Views: 239 | No Comments » | posted on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Bafana Bafana, Carlos Alberto Parreira, Gavin Hunt, Pitso Mosimane, Supersport United
Beer (Ciders and Wine are for sissies and anti-football)
One sip
A sip everytime somebody makes a cringeworthy joke about the "calabash"
Carlos Alberto Parreira calls the vuvuzela "our 12th player"
Somebody at FIFA/SAPS/Supersport denounces a b...
Views: 809 | 3 Comments » | posted on Saturday, June 5th, 2010 | Tags: Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba, drinking game, Dunga, Kaka, world cup
At the beginning of every season the call goes out from the rugby public for refs to blow according to the laws. Strictly according to the laws, I might add.
Then the games begin, and refs blow for so called miniscule infringements and the call ch...
Views: 315 | 3 Comments » | posted on Sunday, April 25th, 2010 | Tags: consistency, referees, rugby, SANZAR
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