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World Cup Preview Part 1: Rooney’s Metatarsal, Dunga’s Demise and French Revolution!
Now I can point to endless articles I have written on here that have been so on the money, in terms of their predictions/forecasts, that it’s scary! Only recently I predicted the demise of Benitez and that Chelsea would win the PL. I have also clearly pointed out that Mourinho is a lucky wanker, Wenger…
Group D: Deutschland Über Alles
Blog readers, football fans, sod it, people of the world… We all owe Kevin Prince Boateng a pint. Thanks to his awful tackle in the FA Cup final, Germany are in this tournament without their chief playmaker, and of course captain. I would never wish such hard luck on anybody, not even Michael Ballack, but…
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…
Grazie Gazza
In a move that would have left the British Tabloids proud, the German paper Bild ran a story that the Dutch players indulged in a party the night before the final with, shock horror “Naked girls and Champagne”. None of the allegations were ever proved but it must have had an unsettling effect on the team. So at 3pm BST on the 7th July 1974 English referee Jack Taylor led out the two teams into a full Olympic Stadium in Munich. Game on, or not quite. Someone had forgotten the corner flags, and a desperate search for them took 7 minutes.
World Cup Breakout Players
Though only a small sample-size, the World Cup can be career-altering. Franck Ribery was a surprise inclusion to the French squad in 2006. A few great performances for France later, he was one of the biggest stars in football and the presumptive replacement for the legendary Zinedine Zidane. Metz were happy to let him leave…
I smell a banana skin – where will the upsets be in the WC group stage?
Germany v Ghana It is fun but usually wrong to predict German failure. Euro 2008 was yet another example of Germany’s ability to deliver in major tournaments; they reached the final despite being low on star players and performing poorly in the early stages. Ghana, however, will give them a good game. They showed impressive…
Germany 2010 World Cup Squad
Germany Coach: Joachim Löw No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 GK Manuel Neuer 27 March 1986 (aged 24) 3 Schalke 2 DF Marcell Jansen 4 November 1985 (aged 24) 30 Hamburg 3 DF Arne Friedrich 29 May 1979 (aged 31) 70 Hertha Berlin 4 DF Dennis Aogo 14 January 1987 (aged 23) 1 Hamburg…
The penalty shoot out lottery
I have followed England in the last six major tournaments we have played in stretching back to the European Championships held here on home soil in 1996. During that time we have failed to qualify once – in 2008 under McClown, but in the other six tournaments we have exited on penalties on all bar…
Soccerlens TV: Germany, Arsenal vs Barcelona and Serie A
Join celebrated football pundit, author, radio show host and DJ Andy Brassell every Monday on the Soccerlens Show. In Episode 22, Andy starts off with the German Bundesliga. Schalke 04 have slipped passed Bayern Munich after Stuttgart beat Bayern 2-1 on their home ground and Schalke beat Bayer Leverkusen. Schalke haven’t won the title since…
2010 World Cup Qualification History: Group D
It would seem to be a formality that Germany will be in the knockout rounds of the World Cup yet again, and after the ease with which they qualified, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see them breeze through Group D. However, on paper, their road to the knockout rounds looks a lot tougher than…
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