The Monday Miscellany
Mike Martin on the World Cup fallout for England and France.
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Argentina 6-0 Peru
July 23, 2010
Football has had its share of match-fixing scandals. Happily, international fixtures and the pinnacle of the sport, the World Cup, have been mercifully free of these. But one game, on the 21st of June 1978, stubbornly refuses to gain acceptance as being ‘natural’.
The Monday Miscellany
July 19, 2010
We're back, and its England youth teams, shot-shy World Cup strikers and Howard Webb's overly permissive performance in the Final in the first Monday Miscellany of the new season.
Rooney, Gerrard and Lampard posed no threat
June 27, 2010
Well, that’s one way to avoid penalties against Germany. Truly, England have been horrendous all tournament. Save for a 20-minute passage in which they scored one legitimate goal, should have scored another and hit the bar once, England’s treatment by Germany bordered on contemptuous. A tournament that began so well, with a goal in less… [Read more…]
Ghana: Myth and Reality
June 26, 2010
Ghana’s progress to the World Cup quarterfinals deserves to be celebrated. But the clichés about how it constitutes a “triumph for the whole of Africa” have gone beyond nauseating. Everyone loves an underdog. But Ghana, though they were second-favourites with the bookmakers against the United States, were only narrowly so. Anyone who had seen them… [Read more…]
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