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By NASA MARIA ENTABAN alltherage@thestar.com.my YOUNG Malaysian football fans are preparing for three weeks of sleepless nights and disrupted daily routines as the 2012 EUFA European Football Championship (Euro 2012) kicks off today. The championship, which is in its 14th year and is being held in Poland and the Ukraine, will be watched by millions […]
Fabio Capello has been praised for giving youth a chance, while Roberto Mancini got a pat on the back for taking a gamble on a free agent. If I had not known any better, I would have thought that I had woken up to the footballing equivalent of 28 Days Later. Just imagine, a desolated […]
When I first heard that both Russia and Qatar had won their respective bids to host the World Cup, I thought there could only be one explanation – corruption.
A COUPLE of weeks ago, 17-year-old Englishman Josh McEachran made his Premier League debut for Chelsea and immediately outshone the man he replaced — Ramires, one of Brazil’s best players at the World Cup. It was a short but sparkling debut.
IT WAS inevitable that last Sunday’s FA Community Shield match between Manchester United and Chelsea would be England fans’ first chance at booing their flopping FIFA World Cup 2010 stars.
A lot of people were saying that on paper, England should have beaten Germany in last weekend’s World Cup match. The problem for England was that the players themselves seemed to believe it.
Italy coach Marcello Lippi has been criticised for snubbing young talents for his World Cup squad, but Italy weren’t the oldest team in South Africa.
By the end of the night, England might be forced to look to a most unlikely saviour to get them through to the next round – a flippin’ coin.
AS MUCH as we try to focus on things happening on the pitch during the World Cup, sometimes the drama off the field it can be just as good.