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Graham Barnfield
Catch 2022 for Qatar
The prospect of Qatar hosting a World Cup has prompted a whole lot of prejudice-venting against the Middle East.
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| Wednesday 1 December 2010 |
Mick Hume
Neither the FA nor the BBC
In the war of the World Cup between the England bid elite and Panorama, neither team of self-righteous Soccerists seems supportable.
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| Wednesday 21 July 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The unhealthy obsession with Africans’ sex lives
The panic about footie fans getting HIV in South Africa exposes the moral colonialism of AIDS campaigning.
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| Friday 16 July 2010 |
Duleep Allirajah
My top five moments from World Cup 2010
While the football itself might have been below par, there was still plenty to savour from the past month in South Africa.
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| Monday 12 July 2010 |
Mick Hume
World Cup final: a victory for football bull***t
The boring Spanish deserved to win, but spare us the moralistic guff about the beautiful game’s triumph over ‘Cloggers’.
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| Friday 9 July 2010 |
Duleep Allirajah
England: football’s kings of flopability
The only thing that was more tired than the English players was the litany of excuses for their failure.
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| Monday 5 July 2010 |
Mick Hume
Not such a New World (Cup) Order
The predictions of success for African teams and of triumph for Latin America’s ‘beautiful game’ were based on fantasy football politics.
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| Friday 2 July 2010 |
Duleep Allirajah
Subverting those World Cup stereotypes
Apparently the Brazilians are ruthlessly efficient and the Germans play with flair. And commentators still talk crap.
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| Tuesday 29 June 2010 |
Mick Hume
England loses game – and all sense of perspective
Turning the defeat by Germany in a football match into a metaphor for society's ills is an even more risible spectacle than the England team.
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| Tuesday 29 June 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Africans: such childlike, spirited footie fans!
The idea that all Africans have a ‘rainbow continent’ duty to support Ghana in the World Cup is patronising guff.
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| Thursday 24 June 2010 |
Mick Hume
Is it ethical to support In-ger-lund?
No, of course it isn’t - but so what? Let’s keep football out of politics.
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| Thursday 24 June 2010 |
Duleep Allirajah
Football: it’s a ‘head game’
As yesterday’s victory over Slovenia showed, England are a different team when they can play without fear.
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| Tuesday 22 June 2010 |
Mick Hume
Boo to the Rooney-bashers
England’s finest footballer needs to be let off the leash, not lectured about his anger, language and beliefs.
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| Friday 18 June 2010 |
Mick Hume
Not 1966 and all that all over again
The past weighs heavy on English football, and the current team will have to shake it off in order to succeed.
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| Friday 18 June 2010 |
Duleep Allirajah
Vuvuzelas: what's wrong with a horny World Cup?
The sound of killjoys lecturing fans on how to support their team is far worse than that South African instrument.
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| Thursday 17 June 2010 |
Mick Hume
Could we ban the endless drone of James Corden?
The chubby actor and No.1 New England Fan loves everyone except noisy, bantering, old-school supporters.
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| Friday 11 June 2010 |
Duleep Allirajah
Don’t you just hate armchair managers?
Ignore the know-nothings moaning about the exclusion of Walcott and the inclusion of Heskey. Fabio is on the ball.
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| Friday 4 June 2010 |
Duleep Allirajah
The World Cup: we believe we can flop
Behind the cheerful St George flag-waving, England fans are haunted by broken metatarsals and penalty screw-ups.
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| Thursday 14 September 2006 |
Ed Barrett
Ashley Cole’s self-serving memoir: there’s no defence
Chelsea's new boy should know the score: bitching in a book about your old club will only make you look bad.
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| Thursday 3 August 2006 |
Duleep Allirajah
Smack the show-pony
The feeble hate campaign against 'cheating winker' Cristiano Ronaldo ignores the real issue: England's World Cup squad was crap.
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