The second part of my breakdown of the summer extravaganza will focus on more of the teams and players that were on stage in South Africa, but if I get on a rant here, which is very likely, I may end up doing a Part 3 ! 6. KAKA, MESSI, ROONEY AND RONALDO . One [...]
As I am so disgusted with the England performance today in CapeTown against Algeria, I am referring my readers to an article I posted on WorldCupBlog.org today. I don’t have the energy to go through this again in my mind. Please feel free to post comments there or here.I think you’ll find it very descriptive. [...]
Following England’s 3-1 friendly defeat of Egypt at Wembley, opinions were focused on the performance of Peter Crouch who scored two of England’s goals in an adequate team performance leading up the announcement of the 27-man preliminary World Cup squad in May. With Wayne Rooney playing the full 90 minutes, and both Jermaine Defoe and [...]
Following England’s friendly with Egypt last Wednesday, criticism of Wembley’s playing surface took front and center as prominent figures voiced their concern at the state of the “hallowed” turf. Sir Alex Ferguson said that Michael Owen’s season-ending hamstring injury had been partly due to the slippery surface and also that Wayne Rooney’s swollen knee had [...]
Thankfully, tonight’s League Cup semi-final at Old Trafford between the two Manchester clubs gave us what we all hoped for. A scintillating battle of speed, guts and power with the odd flashes of sheer brilliance thrown in for good measure. The BBC had even sent their top sportswriter, Phil McNulty, to cover the event in [...]
Over the course of the next six months or so , two soccer players will most likely command most of the news copy in the soccer section of the sports world on both sides of the Atlantic . David Beckham and Landon Donovan will hog the soccer headlines for more than one reason . They [...]
Fill a room with 100 Soccer fans from either side of the Atlantic and I doubt that even half of them would have ever heard of Belo Horizonte , let alone its significance in the progress of the sport in England and the US . It was of the course the site of probably the [...]
