France Fall At The First
In England, it isn’t difficult to run into Francophobia. Sometimes it feels as if a range of feelings from mild dislike to irrational, rabid hatred are hard-wired into our DNA....
Posts Tagged: "South Africa"
World Cup 2010: South Africa 2-1 France
Twelve years ago, at their own World Cup finals, France comfortably beat South Africa in their opening group game, going on to become the sixth nation to win the tournament...
World Cup 2010: South Africa 0-3 Uruguay
Today is National Youth Day in South Africa. It marks the anniversary of the start of the 1976 Soweto riots, which began with the death of twenty-three people after the...
World Cup 2010: South Africa 1-1 Mexico
The gloves are now off. For the first game of any World Cup, you always need to pick your strongest side. Anything else would be foolhardy, so we...
World Cup Preview: Group A
The 19th FIFA World Cup kicks off in nine weeks today, and as such Dotmund continues his almost-in-depth look ahead to this summer's festivities. Today is the beginning of...
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...
The Confederations Cup: Spain 2-0 South Africa
South Africa, horns and all, have edged their way into the semi-finals of this year’s Confederations Cup, but their doing so has been something of a hollow victory for them,...
The Confederations Cup: South Africa 2-0 New Zealand
Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. The clock was ticking this evening as South Africa’s Confederations Cup bid slowly dragged itself to life this evening, with a performance that added little to...
The Confederations Cup: South Africa 0-0 Iraq
It is winter in South Africa at the moment, and it was a winter of discontent in Johannesburg this afternoon as South Africa played out an energy-sappingly drab goalless draw...
The Confederations Cup – A (Very) Rough Guide
For some people, the end of the football season in years that end with odd numbers means a return to the real world. For two and a half months they...