Posts Tagged ‘Chelsea’
Brazil and North Korea paper over cracks
ON DAY five of the World Cup the tournament finally produced a game that managed to be both evenly matched and satisfactorily entertaining.
Three goals! Three actual goals! From different sides!
All three goals (assuming you believe Maicon, who has previous, meant it) were in fact just like watching Brazil.
A grown man cried at his national anthem, as though his life depended on it. Which it might have done.
Dunga wore a funny coat, which was possibly meant for a lady, but made him look like a camp tugboat driver.
What more could a football supporter want?
But the thirteen games prior to Brazil v North Korea were mainly drivel and emblematic of a worrying trend in world football. Read the rest of this entry »
No cloud in England’s twenty20 silver lining
ENGLAND’S World Twenty20 win has raised questions about the position of test captain Andrew Strauss.
Will he have lost the dressing room? Will they still feel like “his team”? Will the world champions respect his leadership?
However asking those questions shows a lack of understanding of modern cricket or, simply, a failure to read a teamsheet. Read the rest of this entry »
Better to have loved and lost than to have never watched the IPL
ON SUNDAY I had my first viewing of the future of cricket.
Maybe it is because it is on ITV4 this year or maybe it is because it is has received more media attention from the non-cricketing press this year, but either way I am following the IPL for the first time.
Except the IPL is not the future of cricket. Read the rest of this entry »