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[…]
Tagged: football
-
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Is the World Cup Legacy Worth It?
An infographic looking at the previous four World Cups, with some financial information and analyses the effect the event had on the host nation to determine if it was really[…]
-
Opening Week Questions
By The Spotter It’s wall-to-wall World Cup in Little Bad Vlad’s sprawling empire. Here are seven ponderables from the first week: 7) Was the Robbie Williams-middle fingered salute at the Opening also a small dig at the host[…]
World Cup Diary 2
By Euan McCabe I hate the VAR. Largely, it has to be said, because I consider myself to be the world’s first-ever victim of it. It just had to be[…]
