World Cup 2010: Paraguay 0-1 Spain
What a world. Regardlesss of the lie of the fixtures, if anyone had said two days ago that Paraguay and Uruguay would be the last South American representatives in the...
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At Last, The Penalty Shoot-Out Arrives
Although so many of the normal constituents of a World Cup finals – complaints about the ball, Sepp Blatter contradicting himself in public, Cristiano Ronaldo’s pained expression & enormous Adam’s...
World Cup 2010: Paraguay 0-0 Japan (Paraguay win 5-3 on penalties)
They say that consistency helps in football. Especially in terms of number of players you use. This seems to be one of Japan’s tactics, as they enter this game with...
World Cup 2010: Paraguay 0-0 New Zealand
If you'd told New Zealand beforehand that they'd go through the group unbeaten and finish above Italy, I daresay they'd have settled for that. And they'd be right to feel...
World Cup 2010: Slovakia 0-2 Paraguay
So, it’s Sunday lunchtime and time for the stout yeomen of Slovakia and Paraguay to enter into battle in The Group (so far) Of Parity. Slovakia need a win more...
World Cup 2010: Italy 1-1 Paraguay
At last, a proper football match, if still not a particularly good one until the last half-hour. Maybe it was the rain. Or maybe just Mick McCarthy’s obvious relish of...
World Cup Preview: Group F
The 2010 World Cup kicks off in just three weeks time, so by this point the majority of football fans everywhere are only using products made by official tournament sponsors...
The World Cup Of National Anthems (Part Three)
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...
A Mixed Bag
England 2-2 Sweden / Trinidad & Tobago 0-2 Paraguay A mixed bag indeed, but at least the Sven-bashers haven’t got quite as much of a leg to stand on as...
The Late, Late Show
Paraguay 0-1 Sweden With five minutes to go in this match, you had to feel some sympathy for the Swedes. For 175 minutes, they’d battered their oppositions, doing everything except...
The Heat Of The Moment
England 1-0 Paraguay Keep repeating the mantra: “it’s the result that counts, it’s the result that counts”. Time, I think, for a little perspective. Reading a few various blogs, messageboards...