Test Match Therapy: Introduction
By Euan McCabe I’ve got a message for those people who say the ICC World Test Championship is flawed; has no history or merit; may not have a future; has[…]
Tagged: The World Cup Baby
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Ten Things To Celebrate About Euro 2020 (So Far)
By Euan McCabe That It Started Strange times these. So strange that the record books will forever show Euro 2020 took place in 2021. 2. A Rich Man’s Mike Hesson[…]
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World Cup Diary 8: The Retrospective
By Euan McCabe The three most humorous moments I have witnessed at World Cup finals tournaments were not intentionally funny. But this only helps to underpin one of the most[…]
World Cup Diary 7
By Euan McCabe As the winter rain and howling wind lashed against my windows on early Sunday morning as England led Sweden 2-0, I found my mind drifting back to[…]
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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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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[…]
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[…]
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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[…]
Welcome to the always bizarre world of the FIFA World Cup
By Euan McCabe Every football World Cup produces the weird and the wonderful. And we did not have to wait long for it in this, the 21st edition. In fact,[…]
