Expect this lot to play a 45 minute stalemate
The Spoiler might have been slightly off with its prediction for the Spain game yesterday, but so was the rest of the planet. We’re looking to redress the balance by laying a few coins on France and Mexico drawing [...]
Read moreFrenchmen – love sick?
They’re a fractious bunch, the French. They appeared to spend the weeks preceding the World Cup not so much training, as enjoying a series of team bonding therapies – bike rides, skiing, evenings spent searching for kind words to [...]
Read moreHenry being dropped sparks player revolt
The Netherlands squad seem to be distinctly chummy this year, so it looks like France will have to implode alone.
With the fuel already doused – lacklustre warm-up games, losing Lassana Diarra to injury, and coach Raymond Domenech having one [...]
Read moreBetting ads apparently not suitable for rage-laced 2010 tournament
Austrian telly chiefs have pulled a series of adverts showing people imitating Zinedine Zidane‘s infamous 2006 World Cup final attack on Marco Materazzi, claiming “they convey that violence [...]
Read moreYes, meet three of them
Of course, a World Cup can make footballers, break footballers, or simply uncover magnificent attacking talent, and over the next few weeks one or two names will surely be introduced into the global vernacular.
In England [...]
Read moreSecond French star to suffer a vehicular mishap
France boss Raymond Domenech‘s increasingly perilous World Cup team building exercises have claimed another victim.
Just a week after William Gallas was left hanging out of an overturned dune buggy during a team race at their training camp [...]
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Rafa busts a few ‘incredible dance moves’ on stage at the Liverpool Empire [via Off the Post]
Franck Ribery renews Bayern contract, gets his own statue (no, not [...]
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