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Liverpool: Worthless or richer than Manchester City

Liverpool is “Worthless.” At least their stock is. A Hong Kong-based sovereign wealth fund hoping to take over financially troubled Liverpool have deemed the club’s stock “worthless.” In related news, the fund also deemed Ryan Babel, Lucas Leiva, and Jamie Carragher (World Cup version) “worthless.” The investors determined that the club’s outstanding debt (£320m or…

Northern Exposure: The People’s Team Abroad

Football teams wishing to be taken seriously at a World Cup should probably avoid losing all of their group games, especially if they concede twelve goals and score just one in doing so. Registering a striker as a goalkeeper in a futile bid to bend the tournament’s squad regulations is also frowned upon, as is…

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…

North Korea 0-3 Ivory Coast – Video Highlights

North Korea 0-3 Ivory Coast 2010 FIFA World Cup 25 June 2010 The Ivory Coast would win their final group stage match 3-0 against North Korea but fail to move onto the next round. It was a dominating performance from Ivory Coast who had chances to win by more but only could convert three of…

World Cup News: John Terry Is Really, Really Sorry

Good day all and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. The big(gest) news today is that England’s ‘rabble-rouser’ John Terry, after a full day of brave defiance, has fallen back in line following his ‘player power’ speech on Sunday night – in which he urged Fabio Capello to play Joe Cole, let…

Portugal 7-0 North Korea – Video Highlights

Portugal 7-0 North Korea 2010 FIFA World Cup 21 June 2010 It was a dominating win for Portugal as they crushed North Korea 7-0 in a Group G match on Monday. The scoring would start in the 29th minute as Raul Meireles scored the opening goal. That would be the only goal of the first…

Portugal 7 North Korea 0 – So you wanted more goals?

In a sentence A rout. Less organized in defence, more swashbuckling in attack Compared to their defiant effort against Brazil, North Korea were sloppy at the back. Portugal’s fifth and sixth were gifted by defensive errors. Several of the others were the products of loose marking. That being said, for the opening half hour they…

Korea DPR has hired football fans?

As I was sitting at home working, I thought I would watch the Portugal vs Korea DPR game just for the heck of it. Apart from the boring performances both teams tried so hard to put up, it wasn’t long before I was yawning like I haven’t slept in days. The first half goal from…

World Cup News: ‘Algeria Win 0-0!’

Morning everyone and welcome, welcome, once again welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Apologies if none of today’s news makes sense, I think a part of my brain may have died whilst watching a certain game of football last night – I think you can probably guess which one I’m referring to!…

World Cup News: Sven’s Talking Balls Again! (Same Pun, Different Day)

Morning everybody, and welcome to the daily Soccerlens World Cup column. It’s day six of the tournament and, without trying to put a downer on the competition so far, there have been a few too many ‘damp squibs’ for my liking – here’s hoping Spain can rectify that this afternoon! Here’s a round-up of all…