The Great Show rolls on
By The Spotter The World Cup often brings a fair share of the brilliant and the ludicrous. No sooner will one stop gagging on the tripe of Christiano Ronaldo being anointed by stupid sections of[…]
Tagged: FIFA World Cup
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Your Quarter Finals Guide
France v Uruguay With Neymar owning the Tournament Villain award in 2018 it’s been almost overlooked that the bad boy of the two previous World Cups seems to have grown[…]
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World Cup Diary 6
The knock-out stages of the Fifa World Cup are like one of those Russian Banya massages. What appears at the outset to be something that should be quite pleasurable and[…]
World Cup Diary 5
By Euan McCabe I fitted in a quick visit to my doctor before bedtime on Tuesday morning. She always likes to check on me at this stage of every tournament[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 29 June, World Cup Special
Ricardo Quaresma scored one of the goals of group play at the tournament, so this is a good time to remember how he’s decked out his son’s bedroom. That’s one[…]
A portrait of a fan
Argentina v Nigeria. Argentina needed to win to progress to the knock-out phase. But at least they have their most famous ex-player in the stands to help them along. Here[…]
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World Cup Diary 4
By Euan McCabe I support two football clubs. Both of them, Ipswich Town and Wellington Phoenix, are pretty much crap. So crappy, in fact, that underwhelming labels like ‘mid-table’ and[…]
When the World Cup gathers pace
The next week (8 days) at the World Cup is the most dramatic. Like some global game of Survivor, 8 countries will go home after the final round of group[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 22 June
Good to see a Polish supermarket getting into the spirit of the Football World Cup. There’s something about those tomatoes though. Reminiscent of that photo from 1986 with Maradonna taking[…]
World Cup Diary 3
By Euan McCabe Just about the last thing you want to hear on your final day at work before going on leave for the best part of a month is[…]
