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Michel Platini Released From Hospital After Health Scare
UEFA president Michel Platini has been released from hospital this morning after fainting in a Johannesburg restaurant yesterday evening. Platini was rushed to the Morningside Medi-Clinic in Sandton after keeling over on the table at the Pigalle restaurant, and the initial assumption was that the former French international midfielder had suffered a heart-attack. However, Platini’s…
World Cup News: Julio Cesar Receives A Heroes’ Welcome, Felipe Melo Doesn’t!
Good morrow and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Four games left people. Four…games…left. Here’s your round-up of all this morning’s World Cup-related news… (If you would like to subscribe to this column – and others like it on Soccerlens – then please feel free to follow this link, or you can…
French Legend Lilian Thuram Calls For Patrice Evra Ban
French legend Lilian Thuram has insisted that current captain Patrice Evra must never play for France again, as punishment for his role in the national team’s implosion in South Africa. Evra was a central figure in the player’s revolt that followed Nicolas Anelka‘s expulsion from the squad, and Thuram believes that the Manchester United man…
20 ‘Lesser Lights’ That Have Shone At The 2010 World Cup
With so many of the ‘big guns’ misfiring at this summer’s World Cup, I thought it was high time to take a look at some of the ‘lesser lights’ that have sparkled in South Africa. Below are the 20 players that, although having seen their sides crash (some more spectacularly than others) out of the…
World Cup News: Don’t Blame Jermain Defoe, He Wasn’t There!
Good morning my dears, and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. No action to report. STOP. Please send biscuits. STOP Here’s your round-up of all the World Cup-related goings-on this fine morrow… (If you would like to subscribe to this column – and others like it on Soccerlens – then please feel…
World Cup News: ‘Der Kaiser’ Takes It All Beck(enbauer)!
Morning all, and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Today sees the start of the World Cup proper, with the first (and second) of the last 16 ties taking place this afternoon. It’ll be good to see some unrelenting do-or-die hyper-tense knock-out football after having to sit through some shamelessly awful ‘let’s…
French Government (Yes, Government!) Launch World Cup Probe
In ‘slightly over-dramatic reaction’ news, the French government (yes, you heard that right!) are to launch an enquiry into their national football team’s disastrous showing at the 2010 World Cup. France captain Patrice Evra told TF1; “An investigation will be opened by the ministry and all the players will be heard. Each one of us…
World Cup News: The Secret Behind England’s Revival? A Good Old Fashioned Pint!
A very good day to you all, and welcome to the daily World Cup column here on Soccerlens. It seems England may have a certain brand of beer to thank for the upturn in their World Cup fortunes after all. Apparently coach Fabio Capello decided that the only way to get his team up and…
World Cup Podcast: Foreign gaffers, Uruguay’s prospects and Yakubu howler
Join Adrian Clarke & Iain Spragg for a brand new episode of the pint size World Cup podcast. The talismanic two heap praise on Uruguay and Argentina, debate the rights and wrongs of employing national team managers from overseas and attempt to understand why Europe’s elite have been so second rate so far. Yakubu, Steven Pienaar…
World Cup News: Fabio Capello Isn’t Crazy!
Good morning everybody and welcome once more to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. England take on Group C leaders Slovenia (that just doesn’t sound right does it?) later today and need to pull a convincing win out of the bag in order to, at least momentarily, silence their growing phalanx of doubters. Could…
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