Human Rights Group Criticizes Sepp, Just Like Everyone Else
The words “Sepp Blatter” and “legacy” are inextricably linked. Most of the time, they’re enveloped by many more words of the four-letter variation. Solidar, a Swiss human rights group, is doing their part to make sure this stays on steady course, by making a video critiquing Sepp’s approach to World Cup 2014 and the manner...
Mario Menezes Renders World Cup 2014 Moot, Claims Victory
It’s a bit early to be handing out the big trophy for 2012, particularly with the world about to end in a few months time here, but Mario Menezes sees no fault in staking claim to it more than two years out. This is probably the fault of the internet age rendering the man behind...
Ladies ‘Rank’ The Men Of The German National Team
And that there is your winner.
A German internet site devoted to finding partners for infidelity – worth noting when considering the voting pool – took a poll of 1300 female members to find the most desirable man of the German national team. In an completely shocking turn, Mario Gomez led the vote, which means there’s...
Donetsk Turns Bus Stops Into Goals
This is an excellent idea to promote Euro 2012 in the city, and it might not even sport a lower cost on materials for normal bus stops. (Shot in the dark.)
It’s going to be a terrible idea the first time an old lady gets her nose broken because some kid decided to chip a Moskvitch...
Eric Cantona Thinks Everyone Can Win A World Cup
Soak up that photo for a moment. The man can’t be stopped, and neither can his drooping blouse.
Two bold claims from Planet Eric this week:
i. The US will win a World Cup within the next 20 years. (So one of the next five.)
ii. The Catalonia national team could win a World Cup.
Alright – very bold...
Olivier Giroud & Mathieu Debuchy Sittin’ In A Tree
Olivier Grioud scores a goal, celebrates by giving Mathieu Debuchy some man-on-man love. And it’s not like this is some unknown occurrence in football – it happens from time to time. However…
It seems increasingly improbable for a late developer to make his way from football’s lower reaches on to the international stage. Little wonder Olivier...
Klaas Jan Huntelaar Scores, Eats Some Turf
A nasty mashing of the heads occurred during the Dutch victory over England during the international friendlies will surely have all clubs involved utterly thrilled to send everyone off to the next midweek friendly. The two gentleman in question, Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Chris Smalling, both landed in the hospital, with Smalling sounding the worse...
Egypt’s Ahmed Hassan Sets New Cap Record
A pretty astonishing achievement was had for Egyptian captain Ahmed Hassan today, earning his 179th cap, which requires an advanced degree simply to count that high. The list is impressive stuff, if only because the top 5 includes not one but two named ‘Hassan’ from Egypt.
He’s also not done, which leaves the possibility of...
The Algerian-Russian Connection
It’s not always good news, is it? Though this seems it could be at least partly the plot to a Bond film, so if any of the victims fancy whipping up a quick screenplay – and they are – there’s certainly some money to be made from this.
There’s been a disturbing trend of disabled children...
The Herve Renard Moment
It’s going to take something absolutely monumental to top this moment on a similar stage at any point this year – or perhaps in the long-distance future.
Herve Renard, Zambia’s coach and honorary royalty in the nation now, one would assume, carries the injured Joseph Musonda to celebrate Zambia’s AFCON win. (In case you’ve ignored newsy...
Unexpected Zambia Nets AFCON Final
Odds before the tournament of Zambia making it to the AFCON final probably weren’t particularly high – they’ve never won and have only been to two finals, the last nearly twenty years ago. ELO has them 56th in the world, but for all intents and purposes, they’ll be at least second on the continent come...
Water Sports At AFCON
Including both diving and synchronized swimming.
His name is Narcisse Ekanga, and there is a pool of water near him – or all around him, rather. There’s also a rounding of the football gods cursing him with some really bad karma for the rest of AFCON.
There’s actually a very real chance he was hurt on the...
