So the quarter finals have come and gone, and our inability to predict results is becoming more obvious. Whilst Numbernine attempts to try his hand at predicting the results of the Semi-finals, I shall cast our gaze backwards over the quarter-final matches. Germany v France Numbernine predicted a high scoring match for the first quarter-final, …
Lionel Messi is impossible
An open-and-shut case from FiveThirtyEight: Lionel Messi is far and away the best player in football. This article was delivered by morse code from a Miss S.R. Cryer, I thought it was worthwhile to leave here for your enjoymentLionel Messi is impossible
The Fifth Podcast is up
Why don’t you head on over to thepodcast section of the website and have a listen. In the Part One of the podcast Numbernine and The Fool discuss the first two quarter finals, whilst in the second part (which is slightly longer) they discuss the last two quarter finals, which thanks to time zones was …
The Great Step Forward
So the final eight have been decided, and it is the first time in the era of the current format that the group winners have all progressed to the final eight. Despite the so called favourites winning each game, the second round games were not without drama and intrigue in each game. In no game, …
Super 8
We have just had an amazing round of 16, even though all the group toppers have made it to the final eight, it has been exciting, and very unpredictable, and if I may say quite un-knockout round-esque. . I will leave my erstwhile colleague to bask in the afterglow of the previous; I will look …
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For those who haven’t noticed there are several ways to send any feedback or thoughts you have on our blog. First there is a nice list of emails and twitter handles over here on our contacts page Also there is our Facebook page which gets a special mention here. Also the hastag #9642Football on twitter …
New Podcast
New Podcasts are live, please head over to the football podcasts page, or follow this link to listen to Numbernine and The Fool discuss the departing teams
S#*t just got real
It’s crazy to think that it has only been about two weeks since the opening ceremony of the World Cup. So much has happened in the last 48 games, goals galore, brilliant saves, great crowds, and of course load and loads of controversy. But that is all behind us. We now go to the next …
Where Fools Dare Tread
So the group stages are over and we now look forward to the knockout stages of the tournament. Before we head forward however I thought this was a good time to look back and evaluate the group stages, and give my first XI for the opening rounds. the following players are mostly from games I …
The Media and The Cup
The other day I was reading an article about Louis Van Gaal and a rant he had made about FIFA, scheduling and also how his team have been totally hard done by with bad refereeing. Now this article wasn’t surprising in itself, other than Van Gaal’s claim that the two penalties awarded against his team …
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