Join Adrian Clarke & Iain Spragg on the latest edition of the pint-size Soccerlens World Cup Podcast. The duo do their best to analyse what went wrong for England and what the future holds for Fabio Capello and his boys … Read More→
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 … Read More→
Portugal 0-0 Brazil Video Highlights 2010 FIFA World Cup 25 June 2010 Portugal would play a defensive and conservative match as they earned a scoreless draw against Brazil. Neither side have a lot of chances but Brazil had more possession. … Read More→
Ricardo Kaka’ was probably the last person we would expect to see red in South Africa. “They’d been talking to me about a kid in Brazil. I’d never heard of Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite. From the name he sounded … Read More→
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 … Read More→
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 … Read More→
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 … Read More→
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 … Read More→
Ivory Coast 0-0 Portugal 2010 FIFA World Cup 15 June 2010 The Ivory Coast and Portugal would play to a disappointing scoreless draw in a Group G match on Tuesday. Both sides would get chances including a shot from Cristiano … Read More→
Good afternoon all, and welcome once again to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens, where you can sate all your World Cup needs in one easy-to-swallow dose. Here’s the best of today’s South African-hued tidbits… (If you would like … Read More→
The World Cup is quickly approaching, and this means the launch of the biggest show in the world. One month of sweat, tears, joy, sore throats, loud noise, beers, women, and football. Over 2.2 billion people watched the games of … Read More→
“There once was a man from Korea, Who drowned all his sorrows in beer. ‘Cos his team had done poop, Finished bottom of their group, And now he’s got to wait four more year” – William Shakespeare (Korea Sonnet – … Read More→
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