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...
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...
South Africa is a unique place in that there is a blend of cultures and creeds here that you cannot find anywhere else in the world. Sadly for football fans, SA is now also home to the unwanted and unique record of being the only hosts to have not pr...
I was on Long Street last night in Cape Town, and the scenes that greeted me were utterly fantastic. Germans, Australians, Greeks, Chileans, English, Americans, Uruguayans, South Africans and Frenchman were all over the show doing their best to injec...
The World Cup has arrived and though many journalists have suggested who might win or who could win, damnit, someone has to take that first step.
So, the time has come to gaze into the crystal ball and predict who is going to win the first ever Wo...
When Diego Maradona weaved his way through six England defenders to go and score what is arguable the greatest goal in Soccer World Cup history, he chiselled his name amongst the gods who have taken to the soccer field.
He is undoubtedly the fine...
The news spread across the country like wildfire: Benni McCarthy has been left out of South Africa's final 2010 Fifa World Cup squad.
My hat goes off to Carlos Alberto Parreira for making what must have been a very difficult decision. McCarthy, ...
"Who at all the pies?" shouted Carlos Alberto Parreira as he milled about the Bafana Bafana cafeteria. Aaron Mokoena, having recently arrived from England, was about to dig into some green Thai curry when he hard his coaches rancour, and replied, "No...
Ke nako! It is time!
That's right soccer fans, 2010 has arrived and the country is being revved up for the biggest month long party we have seen since the 2003 cricket and 1995 rugby World Cups. Much has been made of SA's ability (with many of tho...
Can somebody please explain how Fifa goes about running "world" football?
If it truly claims to represent the interests of world football, why is it that Europe and the Union of European Football Associations (Uefa) seem to get a better deal than...
