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We are nearing the end of the group stage for the World Cup, the one where you need a degree in computer science or to be exceptionally good at sudoku to work out who progresses and who gets to cry into their beer for the last time. So before I give you the beers and [...]

It’s been all action hasn’t it?  Winston Reid did for New Zealand what no-one could do for Australia.  Brazil struggled past North Korea and Portugal were held to a drab goalless draw by Ivory Coast.  The English seem to have gone backwards and current world champions Italy look to be without their goalie indefinitely due [...]

After the disastrous start by the Socceroos to their 2010 World Cup Campaign my interest in this spectacle has (for the moment) waned ever so slightly.  I was patriotic.  I did the right thing, set my alarm and got up to watch the game at 4:30 am.  There’s a couple of hours of my life [...]