World Cup 2010: Germany 3-2 Uruguay
“Let’s make this a celebration,” intones ITV commentator Peter Drury, before kick-off, and millions of people, all at once, think, “yeah, lose your voice.” Uruguay’s national anthem is what Billy...
Posts Tagged: "Uruguay"
World Cup 2010: Uruguay I-Spy
Our resident pencil wrangler Dotmund was very excited about the prospect of Uruguay playing the Netherlands. However, we at Twohundredpercent have noticed that some of his match reports during...
World Cup 2010: Uruguay 2-3 Netherlands
At times they looked like making heavy weather of it, particularly in the last couple of minutes of stoppage time. Indeed, for the first twenty minutes of the second half...
Luis Suarez, Or Why Football And Morals Don’t Mix
It was the perfect storm at the end of the perfect match. This morning, though, moral outrage is brewing. With one movement of his hands, Uruguay’s Luis Suarez has ignited...
World Cup 2010: Uruguay 1-1 Ghana (Uruguay Win 4-2 On Penalties)
If this isn’t the signature match of this World Cup, an absolute classic awaits. All the “total football” focus had been on Holland v Brazil but in the end only...
World Cup 2010: Uruguay 2-1 South Korea
Motty would never have done it. “Uruguay are the only team at this World cup yet to concede a goal,” declares a confident Jon Champion. I don’t know what the...
World Cup 2010: Mexico 0-1 Uruguay
My first memories of Uruguay as football team - and quite possibly of their existence as a country at all - came from the World Cup in 1986. They were...
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: Uruguay 0-0 France
Game two then, and after all the discussion of squad selections and line-ups, we've already had a look at ITV's opening performance and it's time to see what the BBC's...
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...
Video Of The Week: Brazil vs Uruguay, 1970 World Cup Semi-Final
This week’s Video Of The Week takes us back forty years to one of the greatest matches in the history of the competition – the semi-final match between Brazil and...
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...
Uruguay 1930
I’m hoping that, through the medium of staying up all night and sitting here smoking copious cigarettes and drinking industrial-strength coffee, to get through each World Cup before the tournament...