Off The Record
If there’s something that must be said, but cannot be said within blogging / journalistic confines, this is the place to say it. We’ve used this column to poke fun, to provoke and to just say our minds.
Movie star footballers
A life of a footballers is not much inferior than that of a rockstar. From awfully huge wages to their sexual activities getting closer to hypersexuality (a.k.a. nymphomania). And just like rockstars, footballers too have shown the desire to become movie stars. But unfortunately, rockstars usually don’t have problem with fluent speech unless they have…
Maradona loves his players but not “that” way
We have all seen how the Argentinean boss Diego Maradona shows his affection to his players by hugging and kissing them over and over again. It’s natural if it raises a few eyebrows because in this time and age, one man must not touch another man lest he notices that the curtains don’t match the…
Zizou-zela – Vuvuzela meets Zinedine Zidane
Rants about Vuvuzela being a pain in the… ears has been on since the Confederations Cup last year. It annoyed me in the beginning too but since the 2010 World Cup kicked off, I have still to find it annoying and usually I don’t even notice it unless I think about it. What was the…
Vuvuzelas – are you blowing them wrong?
The Mail has a story today about a 29-year-old woman who blew the vuvuzelas too hard and as a result ruptured her throat. The lady says: ‘I had never blown a vuvuzela before but was given one at work and was going to watch the first South Africa match so thought I’d take it along….
Tiger Woods meets Football
No puns at Tiger Woods and his ‘adult’ lifestyle here because I am very much against making an issue out of celebrities’ personal life but this is something that he could use every time he’s going for a hole. Although I believe that golf should not be counted as a sport and EA should not…
Babes of the 2010 World Cup
World Cup 2010 is around the corner and just like the previous years, hot football fans will be travelling with their nations to boost their morals. For once and for all, it does not matter if the English WAGs aren’t travelling with their respective players (or John Terry) because all the Brazilian, Italian, Spanish, German,…
“Today my career ends because after you, I can’t have another manager” – Materazzi on Mourinho
While the rest of the footballing world prepares for the month-long festival in South Africa, José Mourinho of Real Madrid CF needs to assemble a side to bring back glory to the Estadio Bernabeu faithful. There have been rumours that Maicon may follow his former manager to Madrid. According to Mourinho, his former players at…
2010 World Cup build-up – ESPN’s 32 epic works of art
ESPN is playing the lead role in 2010 World Cup coverage worldwide even leaving the host nation’s TV channel way behind. The top commentators of the game John Motson and Andy Gray have also signed up with ESPN and it does not end there (more details on ESPN’s World Cup coverage). Here is the gallery…
Portugal, welcome to South Africa
Maria from South Africa emailed us about something very interesting her daughter has been up to. Her daughter’s name is Levonne De Freitas and she happens to be a big Portugal fan. In a bid to welcome Portugal to her land, South Africa, she pimped up her car to express her support and passion for…
ESPN SportsCenter’s Landon Donovan ad
The USA ace Landon Donovan features in the ESPN SportsCenter’s ad for the World Cup. The theme is a day at the SportsCenter’s office and Donovan fails miserably to operate a simple photocopier and is subsequently punished. Take a look:
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