French defender Lilian Thuram received unanimous applause from the assembled media at France’s press conference for refuting French National Front leader Jean Marie Le Pen’s claims that the French squad weren’t “French” enough because there were too many “players of colour” in the current squad.
(See article online from The Guardian newspaper)
Thuram himself was born on […]
Regular readers may know that I have little time for Frank Lampard, the alleged third best player in the world or whatever non-entity award he DIDN’T win recently and his performances to date in the World Cup have so far proven me right.
He’s a one trick pony of international proportions with his one golden arrow […]
Ukraine aside (and seeing as their squad contains some of Europe’s top players we can’t really call them a surprise package), who can be really surprised to see the lineup for the World Cup quarter finals comprising of the following nations:
Germany
Argentina
Italy
Ukraine
England
Portugal
Brazil
France
Six top European countries and the perennial South American heavyweight contingent and on paper we’re […]
What a cruel way to exit a World Cup that you’ve lit up with gutsy displays in complete contrast to most of the more fancied nations who prefer to let their players dive and roll around around on the ground like a sniper has picked them off from the top of the main grandstand.
Italy […]
Another uninspiring performance, another one nil win against mediocre opposition and more reason for Sven to bang his head off the dugout wall as he wonders why he ever thought about going into a World Cup with two injured strikers, Peter Crouch and a youngster not fit to wear the shirt.
Just a normal day at […]
1) Referees, linesmen and fourth officials are all complete wastes of space. We need robotos or some kind of technology that can not only apply the laws of the game in a fair manner but that can also get the concept of sending a player off after two yellow cards and realising that judging whether […]
It took an ex-Gooner and a current one to apply the killer touch to Togo to send a stuttering France through into the second round of the World Cup and help alleviate the pain of group stage failure four years ago in Japan/Korea 2002.
Frank Ribery had wasted a couple of gilt edged chances to open […]
Fellow b5er Vincent has tipped us off to the unusual interest in a second hand car being sold on the Dutch version of eBay, speurders.nl.
It seems that the extraordinary views from punters in Korea and Australia have been explained by the fact that football coach Guus Hiddink used to own the car and his fervent […]
The mystery obviously being “what in the hell was Graham Poll doing yesterday during the Croatia v Australia game?”
The game was action packed from start to finish so let’s take some of the main incidents one at a time (even though it’ll take a while so inept was his performance):
Mark Viduka wrestled to the ground […]
So Brazil’s physical fitness trainer has let it slip that Ronaldo weighed in at a scales busting 14 stone 11 lbs when he joined up with the Brazil World Cup squad and even is tipping the scales at over 14 stone. Hardly a revelation I know but it raises serious questions as to why he […]
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Written by Jyle Dupuis [email] for b5media.
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