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Category "International Football"
The 2012 Paralympic Football Tournaments – A Brief Guide
As most of you will by now be aware, the 2012 Paralympic Games opening ceremony is now complete and this means that we can all look forward to its forthcoming...
The 2012 Olympic Games: Footballs Legacy
The dust is very gradually settling on an almost entirely successful London Olympic Games. And the BBC aren’t about to let us forget how good they were, as they had...
The 2012 Olympic Games: The Mens Medal Matches
Only a few souls got into Newcastle’s St. James’s Park in time to see Mexico play South Korea in the two sides’ men’s Olympic football tournament group game. And their...
The 2012 Olympic Games: The Womens Medal Matches
The winners were predictable long before the first match – arguably since the last kick of the 2011 World Cup Final penalty shoot-out. The United States, fuelled by revenge for...
The 2012 Olympic Games: The Mens Semi-Finals
South Korea dominated the early stages of their men’s Olympic football semi-final against what Jonathan Pearce summed up perfectly as “a higgledy-piggledy mess” of a Brazil side. This led to...
The 2012 Olympic Games: Womens Football – The Semi-Finals
After one-and-a-half sensational semi-finals, I feel like a killjoy. Despite the wonderful football played – at least as much by the losers as the winners – my thoughts were of...