BfB Goes To The World Cup 2010 (Without leaving the front room)

Brazil 0 Portugal 0 & North Korea 0 Ivory Coast 3

Portugal promised a festival of football and so it was delivered although probably not the football they would have wanted to showcase. Firstly to the Ivory Coast who play North Korea with the only hope of qualifying from the group coming in the Africans putting over half a dozen goals in and hoping that Brazil [...]

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§229 · June 25, 2010 · Brazil, Ivory Coast, North Korea, Portugal · Comments Off · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

North Korea 0 Portugal 7

If North Korea are a football mystery to most of the World – Jong Tae-Se being their most well known player if that is not a contradiction in terms – then perhaps the shroud of secrecy covers both ways and The Great Leader has not permitted coverage of the rest of the World Game. Perhaps [...]

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§176 · June 21, 2010 · North Korea, Portugal · Comments Off · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The fear in the first round of games

The first round of games has been marked by fear and the results of giving into that fear. If one moment summed up the opening sixteen games it was New Zealander Winston Reid heading home in the last minute against a Slovakia side who feared adding to the one goal they had and were punished [...]

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§91 · June 16, 2010 · Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Honduras, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Korea, Paraguay, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA · Comments Off · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Ivory Coast 0 Portugal 0

There was a Golden Generation – the first one – in football and it contained names like Rui Costa, Luis Figo, Jaio Pinto and by the time the sun set on the careers of players every country had decided that it too possessed a “Golden Generation.” The original might not have been the best. The [...]

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§75 · June 15, 2010 · Ivory Coast, Portugal · Comments Off · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,