Showing posts with label England – Ukraine internet game. Show all posts
Showing posts with label England – Ukraine internet game. Show all posts

08/10/2009

World Cup 2010 news round up

In the latest England – Ukraine internet game plug David James tells The Telegraph how he bought a pair of Dino Zoff gloves when he was a kid.

It’s the move which might actually accomplish the impossible: make fans pine for the days when Diana Ross could split open a goal with a wayward swing of her right peg. That’s right, inentertainment.com says a certain English girl power band may put in an appearance at next year’s proposed curtain raiser.

Need an update on the crisis in Honduras as the qualifier against the US approaches? Here you go, from someone who knows what he is talking about in Americas Quarterly.

And The Guardian is starting to fret over England’s 2018 bid.

07/10/2009

England – Ukraine internet game: don't sign up here

England – Ukraine internet game

The latest in a week-long series of thinly disguised attempts to drum up subscribers for the England – Ukraine internet game: that’s how nobody except me has described this morning’s Daily Telegraph non-story about David James and Ashley Cole walking off the pitch during England training at London Colney. Watch out for the phrase “Sign up to watch Ukraine against England now”. You can’t miss it.

It's the North, Central America and Caribbean group. OK?

US “leads the six-team Hexagonal” could have you scratching your head. It’s “soccer columnist” Jeff Rusnak’s not so neat way of describing the North, Central America and Caribbean group.

Bring on the dancing girls

Sin Bins could be introduced at the World Cup in South Africa, according to Sky Sports.

FIFA play off seeding plan meets resistance

And if this picture from ESPN is any guide, Shay Given thinks FIFA’s play off seeding plan deserves two fingers.

06/10/2009

World Cup Bafana Bafana 2010 news round up

The row over the England – Ukraine internet game rumbles on. One of the men responsible tells The Guardian why he thinks it’s a good idea to overturn decades of communal footy watching and have people watch the game hunched around laptops in groups of one.

Here’s an article on a showpiece South African stadium. Green Point is apparently “the jewel in South Africa's stadium infrastructure,” but questions remain about its post-World Cup future, according to The Daily Telegraph.

Kanu in violent attack on Nigerian camp? Not quite, but he will “hit” it, says allAfrica.com

Argentine legend Mario Kempes reckons some good might come of his country’s current struggle to secure World Cup qualification. He told The New York Times of “concern” in Argentina but hints that problems now may spur the team on later.


“FIFA doesn't easily forgive or forget when it comes to World Cup seedings,” says Frank Dell'Apa, ‘soccer’ columnist for The Boston Globe and ESPN. That’s because seedings are based on how well you do, Frank. It doesn’t get any simpler.