No thumping scores this weekend, thank goodness, and arguably the most impressive result was Wigan’s 1-0 win over Spurs at White Hart Lane. Download mp3
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Once upon a time, you wouldn’t have seen a 6-0 scoreline all season, but 3 times in one weekend? The Premiership has gone completely mad. Download mp3.
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What a start to the season. And whilst it could have been the pool of Liver that was singing it was the pool of Black who had a fairytale return to top flight English football. Download mp3.
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Ah, the dreams, no matter how fragile are all still in tact. Like 20 green bottles sitting on a wall, just waiting to accidentally fall. It’s the start of a new English Premier League season and here we go again, our 5th season. We’ll give our top 4 and our bottom 3 and hopefully are [...]
So Spain win their first ever World Cup and go from biggest underachievers to concurrent European and World Champions. Some two years. We look back on the 2010 World Cup Final and the competition itself, discuss the surprise packages and the flops. Download mp3
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It’s one drama after another at this World Cup as the quarter-finals throw up controversy, an astonishing performance from Germany, the near-demolition of South American hopes and the most dramatic ending to a football match possibly ever. Download mp3
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With 7 of the group winners all progressing to the quarter-finals, the Round of 16 definitely went with form which is probably why Group C qualifiers England and the USA found themselves on an early flight home. That’s about all they have in common. Ghana continue to overachieve and now they have a real chance [...]
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What odds on last time’s finalists going out in the group stages? Whilst France wasn’t such a surprise, Italy was a real shock but fair play to Slovakia. So, it’s into the Round of 16 and South America is flying high with all 5 teams through. Africa has been disappointing and Europe certainly not dominant [...]
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So someone flicked a magic switch between round 1 and round 2 and now there’s more goals and more yellow cards and more simulation than you can poke a stick at. And if New Zealand’s exploits weren’t dramatic enough, there’s the French. A review of round 2 and a head-hurting review of the final group [...]
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So the ball’s too round and vuvuzuelas are too loud and Brazil weren’t pretty, but…Japan secures a first ever WC win on foreign soil, New Zealand its first ever WC point and Switzerland beat raging favourites Spain. How’s that for a start? Of course, if you are Greek or Australian then there’s probably little that [...]
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