Three apparently unrelated news stories: (1) Several hundred fans with tickets to the Spain-Germany semi-final missed the game because FIFA contrived to allow the private jets of what in 18th century England was known as the Quality to land at their owners’ convenience. (2) The government of South Africa will lose billions on the World […]
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I’ve been paying a lot of attention to this, and like Rob, I’m delighted — even though it’s a rare deal within the same division. This seems to be a better deal than the moot
Uruguay 1 – 1 Ghana Uruguay win 4 – 2 on penalties. For those of you who didn’t watch the match, in the 120th minute, literally the last few seconds of the 30 minutes of extra time i
I was going to write something about this, but . . . no. I’ve grown addicted to my monthly “paycheque”. The quarter final brackets for the World Cup are . . . unbalanced. Look for yourself: Friday, 2 July Netherlands v Brazil 15:00 BST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT Uruguay v Ghana 19:30 BST, 14:30 EDT, […]
19:30 (BST), 14:30 (EDT), 11:30 (PDT). The US MNT plays in its first knock-out match in the World Cup since the glorious 2-0 victory over Mexico in 2002 (UPDATE: forgetting, of course, the match again
Back in December, immediately after the draw for the World Cup, I had the temerity to write a long post breaking down each group, and I foolishly offered predictions as to how the sides would finish.
Match report here. I watched in an English pub, which, given I am in England, I found somewhat difficult to avoid. My local graciously put on the USA match on a smallish flat screen behind the bar (while the other screens in the pub were tuned to that other match). I was proudly wearing my 2006 […]
Mildly amusing exchange of emails between U.S. and UK ambassadors, in re one of those silly sporting bets that politicos make every time the Battle of Waterloo is about to be won on the playing fields
I have a post on the small matter of tomorrow’s Massachusetts Senate election underway, but figured I’d fire this off ASAP. Dempsey was injured in Fulham’s 2-0 loss to Blackburn Rove
I largely agree with everything that Paul has written, and the comments thread off of that one is excellent. Having had my daughter for the last three days, I’ve not had an opportunity to do much of, well, anything beyond pay her attention and acquiesce to her three-year old demands, so now that I have […]
Some very preliminary thoughts: Great draw for both the U.S. and England. Algeria is clearly the weakest African team and Slovenia might be the softest Euro side. Right now it looks like it would be a
The seedings for Friday’s group stage draw were released yesterday. There were some fairly significant changes from past practice. For the past three, four, or five? World Cups, a combination of