Argentina Flounder Before German Unity
Out of the chaos of the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup has come some degree of consensus. If today’s newspapers have one theme running through them, that theme is...
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World Cup 2010: Argentina 0-4 Germany
Some games need no introduction, and they fall into two camps. One camp is the poor games that are best left forgotten (which can only be known after the event)....
World Cup 2010: Argentina 3-1 Mexico
Even at these times of sport's saturation of the television schedules, the endless search for a new hit sitcom goes on at apace. Yet again, instead of closely watching...
World Cup 2010: Argentina 2-0 Greece
No-one has done it single-handedly before. And whatever Lionel Messi achieves during the rest of his football career, nothing will surpass his transformation of Argentina – and one managed by...
World Cup 2010: Argentina 4-1 South Korea
“There’s enough material here for an entire conference,” said the psychiatrist in the Fawlty Towers episode entitled, funnily enough, ‘The Psychiatrist.’ Argentine coach Diego Armando Maradona, we are told, is...
World Cup 2010: Argentina 1-0 Nigeria
Diego Armando Maradona’s last World Cup game as a player, was in 1994. Against Nigeria. So, it was fitting that his first World Cup game as a manager was against...
World Cup Tales: When The World Cup Legitimised A Dictatorship – Argentina, 1978
There have been, over the last eighty years or so, several questionable decisions made regarding the hosting of World Cup tournaments. None, however, have been met with quite the fury...
Video Of The Week: Argentina vs Netherlands – The 1978 World Cup Final
This week’s Video Of The Week is a little late due to other commitments, but it is an absolute belter – the 1978 World Cup final between Argentina and the...
World Cup Tales: The Story Of The First World Cup, 1930
It should come as no great surprise to any seasoned FIFA watchers that the entire history of the organisation has been about its politicking, and still less that this has...
World Cup Preview: Group B
The 19th FIFA World Cup kicks off in eight weeks today, and as such Dotmund continues his almost-in-depth look ahead to this summer's festivities. Today he continues his...
The World Cup Of National Anthems (Part One)
For many people, major sports tournaments are the only occasion that national anthems are heard. These peculiar tunes have become a genre of their own, transcending the mere hymns that...
A World Cup Finals Without Argentina?
Now is not a particularly good time to be an Argentinian football supporter. Not only have their most loathed opposition – Brazil and England – already qualified for the finals...
A tale of two managers
The 2010 World Cup kicks off in just 600 days from today. This fact has made the looming prospect of South Africa seem a little bit too real for Argentina’s...
Start as you mean to go on
The fifth FIFA Women’s World Cup began yesterday in China, with a much-fancied German side putting Argentina to the sword. The final result – 11-0 – was a record for...
Tor! Tor! Tor!
Germany 1-1 Argentina (4-2 on penalties) Well, I’d be ripping up my betting slip right now, if I’d been stupid enough to bet on my own feelings before the tournament...
Mexicans Wave Goodbye
Argentina 2-1 Mexico Well, they gave it everything. From the first minute until the very last, Mexico pushed Argentina all the way, and were dreadfully unlucky to be sent home,...
Dutch Courage
Argentina 0-0 Holland / Ivory Coast 3-2 Serbia May I just be the first person to say… WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? As some of you may remember, in Euro...
Simply The Best
Argentina 6-0 Serbia There’s so much that I could say about this performance, and it wouldn’t be enough at the same time. We’ve just witnessed the performance of the World...