A miscellany of opinions, thoughts, rants and comments
Since today is the first day during the 2006 World Cup on which there is no football, today’s website is a football-related one to help those suffering from withdrawal symptoms. The Unofficial Football World Championship is contested in a simple boxing-style title system. Winners of title matches become title holders, and move up the rankings. [...]
Today’s website is one that mixes high art with low sport. Football Poets is a website of, well, poems about football. Love it!
I promised I’d try to avoid doing too many football-related websites during the World Cup. So, to start with, here’s one for the anti-cup brigade. The World Cup Widows Club is a site set up by a bunch of women (mostly) who are fed up with their blokes watching football all the time. How unsporting [...]
“Whatever happened to consistency?” asks Joe Lovejoy in today’s Sunday Times, in his column on page 4 where he also opines that “the Owen-Gerrard combination up front is unsound and “[there is no] need to disorient the team by scrapping the 4-4-2 with which they have become familiar”. However, a writer in the World Cup [...]
This will be my first World Cup as a married man. Which also means it will be the first World Cup where negotiating both access to the TV and time to watch the matches will be an issue. Now, there’s a well-publicised Internet meme called World Cup Rules For Girls, but somehow I don’t think [...]
I was a bit surprised that Shaun Wright-Phillips and Ledley King weren’t even in the standby list (although it’s subsequently turned out that King was injured anyway, and wouldn’t have made the squad even if provisionally picked). But the main list is a very risky selection by Sven’s standards, with a couple of out-and-out wingers [...]
With the World Cup coming up, I’ve decided to add a blog category that’s mostly about football. This is partly in order to add a bit of sport-related interest to both my own blog and planet.uknot.org (where this one is aggregated), but also as a blatant attempt to generate a bit of traffic from footy [...]
Has anyone else noticed the resemblence between Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole and pop star Daniel Bedingfield?