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World Cup 2010 Blog - The last gasp
Well that's it then. Spain has made history, becoming the first European team to win the World Cup on another continent. Fortunately the history books won't record the turgid manner in which it was won.
World Cup 2010 Blog - Technology - the only way?
The World Cup will have a new winner as Spain last night booked their place in the final against Holland, but after the dust has settled in Johannesburg on Sunday, one question will remain - does football finally need to succumb to technology?
World Cup 2010 blog: Don't look back in anger
The swinging sixties came to the Park Lane Hilton in London last night as guests at the British Mortgage Awards were entertained by groovy dancers, mod iconography and Sir Geoff Hurst, but as Holland wrote a new chapter in their footballing history I couldn't decide whether the rampant nostalgia was a comfort or a curse.
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World Cup 2010 Blog - Leader of the pack
Even a penalty shoot-out wasn’t enough to save yesterday’s matches from being two of the more forgettable games of the tournament and so, with a break before the quarter finals kick off on Friday, it seems a good time to reflect on the competition that really matters – the Fantasy World Cup.
World Cup 2010 Blog - Pantstastic
As the England team returns home to an appropriately rainy London morning, it has emerged the hapless players suffered a final humiliation in South Africa, with their underwear being stolen from their hotel. The newspapers have had a field day, but you wonder how different the story might have been reported had the side won on Sunday.
World Cup 2010 Blog - Breaking up isn't hard to do
England exiting a tournament always feels a bit like a painful break-up. But at least this time it feels like a relationship you should never have been in to start with.
World Cup 2010 Blog - Best actor goes to....
The Ellis Park pitch in Johannesburg was awash with Italian tears yesterday evening, and that was before the final whistle.
World Cup 2010 Blog - Handbags and gladrags
A palpable sense of relief has swept through the nation’s tabloids this morning. We all hoped it might happen, but only those of the most optimistic disposition actually believed it would. That’s right – the WAGs have finally arrived in Rustenburg.
World Cup 2010 Blog - Once more unto the breach
Brian Blessed booming out the Agincourt speech from Henry V – who can fail to be moved? The England team probably.
World Cup 2010 Blog - Comfort break or drumming up new business?
We are half way through the World Cup – 32 matches have been played, 67 goals scored and the final round of group games starts today. So naturally the question on everyone’s lips is, where now for Pavlos Joseph?
World Cup 2010 Blog - Allez les Bleus
This weekend, England and France gave up on the football World Cup to concentrate on a private competition of whose squad is in the most disarray. And England couldn't even win that.
World Cup 2010 Blog - Maradona's blonde moment
Her name is Monica, “she’s 31, she’s blonde and she’s beautiful”. She is dating Diego Maradona, or so the Argentinean manager told the world in another brilliantly bonkers press conference.
World Cup 2010 Blog - Swiss roll over Spain
For a brief period yesterday Europe's favourite neutrals became the neutral’s favourite.
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