Last week my erstwhile colleague gave you his predictions for the first weekend of games, with less than stellar success. To try and prove my superiority to Numbernine I thought I might try my hand at crystal ball gazing for the 2nd week of competition. Belgium v Algeria Group H’s first game sees the favourites …
The Samba Tournament
It isn’t very often that I look forward to anything as much as I have been looking forward to this year’s World Cup in Brazil. It is even rarer that something that I really look forward to lives up to the hype. And I must say this tournament has really done that so far. Through …
Football ruins all Predicitons
ninesixfourtwo: Last week my erstwhile colleague gave you his predictions for the first weekend of games, with less than stellar success. To try and prove my superiority to Numbernine I thought I might try my hand at crystal ball gazing for the 2nd week of competition. Belgium v Algeria Group H’s first… Football ruins all …
The Samba Tournament
ninesixfourtwo: It isn’t very often that I look forward to anything as much as I have been looking forward to this year’s World Cup in Brazil. It is even rarer that something that I really look forward to lives up to the hype. And I must say this tournament has really done that so far. …
World Cup balls, 1930-2014
An interesting link that was phoned in my a long time listener, first time caller: The NY Times has an interactive look at the balls used in the World Cup from 1930 onward. Here’s the ball from 1930: World Cup balls, 1930-2014
New Podcast is live
The latest podcast is now up over in the football section In this weeks podcast we discuss the first three games; Brazil v Croatia, Mexico v Cameroon and Netherlands v Spain.
Football Podcast: Brazil 2014 Podcast 2.1
This weeks podcast where Numbernine and The Fool discuss the opening three games of the world cup.
Games discussed / played when recorded:
Brazil v Croatia
Mexico v Cameroon
Netherlands v Spain
World Cup balls, 1930-2014
ninesixfourtwo: An interesting link that was phoned in my a long time listener, first time caller: The NY Times has an interactive look at the balls used in the World Cup from 1930 onward. Here’s the ball from 1930: World Cup balls, 1930-2014
Calm before the storm (or not)
The other day as we were watching one of the many news stories about the approaching World Cup, when one of my colleagues advised a flatmate of his was going to watch the tournament in Brazil, staying there with his family. At this point several other co workers started commenting on whether said flatmate would …

