Month: June 2010
World Cup Contest – Win a pair of Nike Superfly II
Updated:Update: The contest is now over, the winner will be announced on the Friday 9 July podcast. The World Cup, like Christmas, is a time for giving. With that in…
Read more »Movie star footballers
Updated:A life of a footballers is not much inferior than that of a rockstar. From awfully huge wages to their sexual activities getting closer to hypersexuality (a.k.a. nymphomania). And just…
Read more »World Cup Podcast: What’s your Team of the tournament (so far)?
Updated:Join Adrian Clarke & Iain Spragg on the latest episode of the pint size Soccerlens World Cup Podcast as they argue over which players should feature in the team of…
Read more »Transfer Rumors: Man City land Valencia’s Silva, Real Madrid to step up efforts for England pair, Man United close on Ninis, and more
Updated:David Silva is busy helping Spain attempt to win the World Cup for the first time, but whether he returns from South Africa after this weekend or the following one,…
Read more »World Cup News: Cristiano Ronaldo Spits His Dummy Out!
Updated:Morning all, and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. There’s a bit of a strange hush falling across the planet today, as we face the first football-less…
Read more »Footballers, girls and scandals
Updated:You are probably thinking John Terry or Ashley Cole or maybe even Ronaldinho, Robinho and Adriano… Then Cristiano Ronaldo might also come to mind and of the less talked about…
Read more »Diego Maradona: There is a method to his madness
Updated:Diego Maradona has been the headline maker at this World Cup. From his elegant suits, to his animated gestures in the technical area, to his controversial quotes and his genuine…
Read more »Diego Maradona has been a breath of fresh air in this World Cup
It is pretty evident for all to see that Diego Maradona’s presence at this FIFA World Cup has been a real breath of fresh air. The 49 year old had…
Read more »Premier League football doesn’t cut it at this level
The past few days has seen players, managers, coaches, journalists, reporters and almost anybody with a television set give their views on why England produced such a disappointing World Cup…
Read more »Spain 1-0 Portugal – Video Highlights
Updated:Read the Spain v Paraguay preview. Spain 1-0 Portugal 2010 FIFA World Cup 29 June 2010 Spain would fail to convert several chances but a second half goal from David…
Read more »Paraguay 0-0 (5-3 on penalties) Japan – Video Highlights
Updated:Read the Paraguay v Spain preview. Paraguay 0-0 (5-3) Japan 2010 FIFA World Cup 29 June 2010 It would go down to a penalty shoot-out in the penultimate round of…
Read more »Transfer Rumors: Man City close on trio, Real land Benfica wiz Di Maria, Henry to leave Barcelona, and more
Updated:With the World Cup heading towards the latter stages, we’re already seeing things rapidly heating up in the world of transfers. Up to this point, there’s been mostly speculation and…
Read more »World Cup News: Carlos Tevez Comes Clean(ish)!
Updated:Welcome once more to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Footballing boar-dog Carlos Tevez has done the decent thing and admitted that he was well aware of just how…
Read more »2010 FIFA World Cup: South American Trios Lead Their Teams to the Quarter-finals
Kaká, Robinho and Luis Fabiano; Godín, Forlán and Suarez; Messi, Tevez and Higuain. I would walk into a dark room and randomly pick any of these players for my team…
Read more »German U21 stars outshine England’s ‘Golden Generation’
Leading into the World Cup, the German side were looked upon as an unknown quantity. A side without their talisman Michael Ballack and the investment in youth by Joachim Löw…
Read more »Messi: “I thought that they would negate the goal by Tevez because they were looking at the big screen above…”
Updated:After the impressive victory by Argentina over Mexico in the round of 16, Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez provided news conference comments that were published by the Buenos…
Read more »Harry Redknapp: ‘I Couldn’t Turn The England Job Down’
Updated:Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has made it painfully clear that he would be interested in taking the England manager’s job, should it become available at some point during the next…
Read more »Brazil 3-0 Chile – Video Highlights
Brazil 3-0 Chile 2010 FIFA World Cup 28 June 2010 Brazil would cruise into the quarterfinal round with a 3-0 win over fellow South American side Chile. It started out…
Read more »Netherlands 2-1 Slovakia – Video Highlights
Netherlands 2-1 Slovakia 2010 FIFA World Cup 28 June 2010 The Netherlands would move into the quarterfinals with a 2-1 win over Slovakia on Monday. It appeared to be a…
Read more »Sepp Blatter & FIFA: Reasons To Be Thankful
Updated:There is a common misconception that seems to prevail within footballing circles that FIFA are a dribbly-chinned, stubbornly atavistic outfit – concerned only with trifling over the insignificant minutiae of…
Read more »World Cup Podcast: A painful England post mortem
Join Adrian Clarke & Iain Spragg on the latest edition of the pint-size Soccerlens World Cup Podcast. The duo do their best to analyse what went wrong for England and…
Read more »Transfer Rumors: United and City after Real keeper Casillas, Tottenham to splash the cash on Forlan, Inter’s Maicon set for Real switch, and more
Updated:It’s a very important summer in Manchester, to say the least. Manchester United are looking to strengthen their squad ahead of a run at a record-breaking 19th top flight title…
Read more »World Cup News: England Lost, But At Least Gabriel Heinze Got Clocked!
Updated:Top of the morning and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. You may have noticed that England did a ‘lose’ yesterday when they really should have done…
Read more »‘Arrogant’ England Fob Off The World’s Media
The world’s media were left with their jaws on the floor yesterday, when England’s press briefing (before their systematic dismantling at the hands of Germany) lasted barely five minutes –…
Read more »Kobe Bryant: “I love soccer since the time I was a boy.”
Updated:Kobe Bryant has an interesting history that many fans might not know. His father, Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, played professional basketball in Italy where Kobe spent his formative years. Kobe grew…
Read more »Brazilian striker wants to win titles with Manchester United
Updated:The Brazil striker Luís Fabiano has said that he only wants to play for a club where he will have a chance of winning titles, and he’s picked out United…
Read more »Only Time Will Tell How England’s Golden Generation Are Remembered
Updated:So to Shizuoka in 2002 and Gelsenkirchen in 2006 we must add Bloemfontein in 2010, as England’s golden generation now face up to the reality of another exit from a…
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