New Zealand 1-1 Slovakia : Winnie The New Boy Rescues The ALL Whites.
World Cup Group F: New Zealand 1-1 Slovakia (Reid 90+ 3 – Vittek 50) Video Highlights Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg, South Africa Attendance: 23,871 Winston Reid, the 21 yr old newbie from…
Brazil scores twice and confirms superiority in Group G
Before we get to talk about Brazil’s debut against North Korea let’s have a quick review on what I saw these past few days from Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay in…
Foreigners, Philosophy and the Idiocy of Franz Beckenbauer
Knee-jerk. Look at that phrase, roll it around your tongue, and say it in your head. Knee-jerk. That is the god awful, insidious, depressingly ubiquitous mental response to anything to…
Zinedine Zidane unimpressed with France and Domenech
France legend Zinedine Zidane has added to Raymond Domenech’s woes by publically stating his disapproval of the national teams exploits thus far in the FIFA World Cup. Zidane, who infamously…
ITV Sack Pundit Robbie Earle For Selling World Cup Press Tickets
Rejoice! British broadcasters ITV have sacked their World Cup pundit Robbie Earle, after discovering that he breached FIFA regulations by selling his press tickets on to a third party –…
World Cup News: England Kit Covered In Shit!
Good afternoon all, and welcome once again to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens, where you can sate all your World Cup needs in one easy-to-swallow dose. Here’s the…
Transfer Rumours: Liverpool’s Yossi Benayoun On Verge Of Chelsea Switch?
Reports circulating in Israel are suggesting that Liverpool’s death-faced midfielder Yossi Benayoun may be on the verge of completing a surprise switch to Chelsea over the next few days, and…
Gigi Buffon: “I hope that it doesn’t happen to me even in my worst nightmare.”
Gianluigi “Gigi” Buffon has been a mainstay for the Azzurri since his debut at the age of 19. He was born in Carrara, the site in Tuscany where Michelangelo quarried…
Is this the worst World Cup ever?
OK, so we’ve only had the first week of the World Cup, but let’s be honest, with the exception of the Germany game, most of the matches have been rather…
Adrian Mutu Forced To Pay Chelsea €17m After Losing Final Appeal
Troubled Fiorentina striker Adrian Mutu has received yet another kick in the nads, with the news that he will be forced to pay Chelsea the princely sum of €17,173,990 (astonishingly…
World Cup Podcast: Green and Capello madness, Podolski power and Ronaldo
Join Adrian Clarke & Iain Spragg for the latest pint-size Soccerlens World Cup Podcast. Having watched every minute of action so far the boys focus on whose impressed them and…
Holland 2 Denmark 0 – Hardly “Total Football” but a win
In a sentence Poulsen’s horrible own-goal and Denmark’s lack of ambition make it comfortable for the unconvincing Oranje. The tamest fightback After their first-half performance, it seemed reasonable to expect…
Paul Gascoigne In Hospital After Car Crash
Former England midfielder Paul Gascoigne is in a ‘serious, but not life-threatening’ condition in hospital this morning after being involved in a car crash yesterday evening. The accident, which took…
World Cup News: North Korea Struggling With Ball Control
Afternoon everybody, and welcome to the daily Soccerlens World Cup column. Here’s the best of what the tournament, way down yonder in South Africa, has to offer up today… (If…
New Zealand vs Slovakia: World Cup newbies showdown
New Zealand v Slovakia Group F, 2010 World Cup Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg Sunday, 13 June 2010 Kickoff: 11:30 GMT, 13:30 Local The All Whites may have waited 28 years…
