Archive | May, 2010
Luka Modric Signs New Six-Year Deal With Tottenham
Tottenham have received a huge boost ahead of next season’s Champions League exploits with the news that highly-rated play-maker Luka Modric has committed his long-term future to the club, signing a new six-year contract that will keep him at White Hart Lane until 2016. Modric, who joined Tottenham from Dinamo Zagreb in 2008, has scotched rumours [...]
Continue reading...Switzerland World Cup 2010 Preview
31. May 2010
It starts with a sudden lowering of the voice. Two quick glances to either side, a furtive slug of the glass, and the mysteries are revealed. Never mind the hand of Thierry Henry and the referee who was told to see nothing. The real European World Cup conspiracy, the one which – like all the [...]
Continue reading...Greece World Cup 2010 Preview
31. May 2010
Summer 2004 saw 250,000 people turn Athens upside down in celebrating Greece’s shock victory in Euro 2004. Fast forward six years and the streets of the capital are full once again, although under very different circumstances. With the nation in uproar against the financial mismanagement of the most incompetent government since, well, the previous one, [...]
Continue reading...The Capello conundrum
31. May 2010
So, it wouldn’t be England without some kind of media storm prior to the start of the tournament. And we’ve got Jose Mourinho to thank for this one. Granted, there has always been that nagging doubt that Fabio Capello might jump ship after the World Cup finals, despite him having a contract to run until 2012. [...]
Continue reading...Denmark World Cup 2010 Preview
31. May 2010
With star striker Nicklas Bendtner already thrown out of London nightspot Boujis last year with his trousers around his knees, the worry for Denmark ahead of their fourth World Cup finals campaign is that the coming month will leave them further exposed. Morten Olsen, now in his tenth year as national coach, can rely on a [...]
Continue reading...Football transfer rumours: Cesc Fábregas to Madrid not Barcelona?
31. May 2010
Today’s twaddle is really not sure whether mobile phone masts do derange bees but is all for chopping them down anyway Some may say it is apt that England’s national colours are those of a bandage on a bloody head wound, one possibly caused by a hurled pint glass or a hooligan’s boot or an infuriatingly [...]
Continue reading...Football Nomad: World Cup 2010 web-documentary
31. May 2010
Football Nomad, an independent web-documentary combining film and social media to share the color and excitement of the 2010 World Cup, is set for launch on June 4. Brisbane-based brothers Andrew, 24, and Patrick Weber, 18, will travel the world armed with a laptop, Handycam and with the support of enthusiastic locals, aim to provide an [...]
Continue reading...Serbia 0-1 New Zealand – All Whites Prepare for South Africa In Style
30. May 2010
If the All Whites were hoping to be underestimated at this year’s World Cup, then perhaps scalping a team 68 places above them in the FIFA world rankings was probably not the right way to go about it. After the heartache of last week’s last-gasp defeat aginst Australia, many were beginning to wonder if New Zealand had the capacity to [...]
Continue reading...France given the honour to showcase Euro 2016
30. May 2010
France will be the predecessor to Poland and Ukraine’s joint hosting of the European Championships after they fort off competition from Italy and Turkey to win the right of hosting the tournament in the summer of 2016. It will have been twelve years since France last hosted a major tournament as they did in 1998 as [...]
Continue reading...That man Wayne
30. May 2010
England’s best chance of winning the World Cup, of course, comes from talisman Wayne Rooney. But the Mail’s Patrick Collins maintains that the striker knows it all too well. Somebody remarked that he seemed a little weary the other evening. There were tired lines around his eyes and his roaring surges lacked some of the old [...]
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31. May 2010
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