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.
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
More Important than Life or Death
My erstwhile colleague gave his crystal ball gazing predictions for the first week of games last tuesday, and to follow that up I thought I would give you all my opinion on each team’s chances, where I think they will end up and some predictions on how the groups will finish. As we mentioned in …
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 …
The Opiate of the Masses
I have fond memories of watching past world cups, especially those of my childhood, from 1986 through to 1998. These I watched at home in front of my TV watching as many games as I could on our free-to-air TV channels. I have vague memories of the 86 world cup, some of which have surely …
Countdown to destiny.
I can hardly believe we are only a few days away from the opening game in Sao Paulo. The Fool and myself have been quietly (or not so quietly) anticipating this week for a long long time. And why would we not? The first weekend has a huge line up of games with several of …
Absent, but not forgotten
A link to the Fifa offical site where they also discuss people who missed out through injury, bad form, or their team straight up not being good enough *cough* Zlatan IbrahimovicAbsent, but not forgotten
First Podcasts
The first podcasts are now live. You can find them by clicking the Football Podcasts link above.
So It Begins
So when I planned this blog/podcast all those months ago, I thought long and hard about it. What we were planning to do was intriguing and interesting and … well pretty much impossible to do by myself. There was basically a very short list of people who I could do this project with. A list …
Razing the Old to Raise the New
So it is that time again, where we all sit down in front of a TV and watch 22 men kick a ball around whilst we scream and yell. Then later we talk about it, and then talk some more. Unlike the common times this special golden times are filled more with optimism and hope, …
