Promotion and then champions?
Without assuming too much but promotion is looking more and more likely. So, which game do you think we'll clinch promotion and which game do you think we'll be crowned champions? That's confidence for you. :-)
Mano Menezes to be Brazil manager
Wow, its been messy for Brazil trying to find a replacement for Dunga as Brazil manager. With Leonardo and Scolari previously frontrunning, over the last week, it seemed to come down to2 men from within Brazil – Mano Menezes and Muricy Ramalho, the coaches of respectively, Corinthians and Fluminense.
Menezes had previously become the frontrunner,...
The Capello Index Revealed…briefly
You might remember just before the World Cup, England manager Fabio Capello unveiled his plan for the Capello Index, ranking the players at the World Cup out of 100, the operation was quickly pulled for fears it would undermine the England squad during the World Cup.
It seems Fabio was marking the players anyway, as...
Is Nationality Important with National Coaches
The old adage, England invented the game and the Brazilians mastered it. You wouldn’t believe that if you watched the World Cup in South Africa, as both sides crashed out relatively early. Both are pondering the question of whether the nationality of a national coach is important, and if it is important, how much so?
England...
The World Cup as a League Table, After Two Games
So, one of the most exciting things about the World Cup is that you can compare all the best countries in the World and decide just how good everyone is. As the teams play in the Group/Knockout format however, most of that is conjecture. Except, now it isn’t.
I’ve take the 32 teams who have...
Liveblog: Italy 1-1 Paraguay
Welcome to the liveblog of Italy vs Paraguay in World Cup Group F. Make your comments before, during and after the match in the liveblog window. Rob is your liveblogger today. He’s neutral. So if you’re an Italian fan looking for something more Azzurri coloured, you may want to try Italy World Cup Blog.
Below the...
Soundoff: Your World Cup Group E Predictions…
Moving through the groups at a pace now, and we find ourselves in Group E. Time to put our necks out and say who we think is going to get through this one. I haven’t been finding it too easy to rank the teams in each group from 1-4, and E is not really an...
Soundoff: What’s Your Lucky Ritual Before World Cup Matches?
Luck does not exist. As a rational person, I know this. The world is, as I see it, a mess of chaos and randomness, one person’s choices affecting everyone else’s choices until the whole world is just a mess of chaos, that naturally we try to sense some order in.
But with Football…I can’t take...
Glory for New Zealand, America and Spain win, Just.
Interesting day of pre-World Cup friendlies that threaten to throw all we know about the World Cup up in the air. For a start, New Zealand as you can see above, beat Serbia to get Kiwki pulses racing that little bit faster in the build up to South Africa.
To put that in perspective, Serbia...
Eto’o threatens to walk away from World Cup
Samuel Eto’o eh? He sure knows a thing or two about team stability. Though he seemed to have calmed down in recent times (to the point where Didier Drogba has stopped becoming the poor man’s Eto’o in terms of unpredictability) he lashed out today, claiming he might just walk away from that big party in...
Reasons To Love (and Hate) All the teams in South Africa
So with the World Cup coming up, many of you will be looking for a team to follow either as a second team when your team inevitably gets knocked out in the Quarter Finals on Penalties (perhaps that one is just me) or because your team didn’t make it to South Africa. Either way, at...
Soundoff: Who Do You Most Want To See Your Team Knock Out in South Africa?
Did a similar themed post over at the England World Cup Blog yesterday and thought it might be interesting to throw it open to everyone. Who is the team you would most like your team to beat in South Africa.
For me, I’d like to see England beat Argentina to get a bit of revenge...
