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A punch to the stomach
It was the cruellest of heartbreaks. When you get winded without being punched. The kind that gets inflicted by that girl you really like. Where you prepare (read: set yourself up for) failure on “that” date. And you find yourself ready to cry. And here I’d kidded myself that I’d be writing [...]
Continue reading...Why is Benni McCarthy earning R2 million a month?
12. March 2010
As we hurtle towards the end of the season (doesn’t it seem like we just started last August?) this is as good a time as any to ask (and try to answer) some questions about the Premier League. Vexing, confusing questions like why Bafana Bafana striker (wunderkind aka “he-who-can-do-no-wrong”) Benni McCarthy is earning £40000 a week [...]
Continue reading...The rich get … well … richer
5. March 2010
Real Madrid is the world’s richest football club, for the fifth year running. The rich are indeed getting richer. Despite the global economic recession, Madrid became the first team in any sport to report revenue of euro400 million (around R4 billion). Guess the euro 250 million-odd they loaned to buy Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo and Xabi Alonso, amongst [...]
Continue reading...A dark horse emerges for fourth place
26. February 2010
Until now, all the talk has centred around the battle between Liverpool, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa. But with back-to-back wins against the Premier League leaders Chelsea and Manchester United, Everton have popped up in eighth place. It sounds a long way from the top, but they sit just eight points away from fourth. The [...]
Continue reading...Are we obsessed enough about local football?
19. February 2010
Writing this from Barcelona, Spain means I’ve had the chance to experience the Spanish coastal city for most of this week. FC Barcelona were playing Atletico Madrid on Sunday evening, and besides pretty much nothing being open, everywhere you looked people were wearing replica kit, “FC Botiga” scarves and the like. The people of Barcelona love walking. [...]
Continue reading...Why we need a proper African Champions competition
5. February 2010
Why does the Confederation of African Football (CAF) have to try copy everything done elsewhere in the world? Sure, the African Cup of Nations is not the only copy - all continents have a bi-annual championship. But the CAF Champions League? Do you even know it exists? Do you know who won the competition last year? (it [...]
Continue reading...Does the Premier League really need a January transfer window?
29. January 2010
Perhaps Liverpool’s owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks have a point in their belief that players bought in the January transfer window are habitually overpriced. Despite the constraints rumoured to be placed on Rafa Benitez where he is restricted to only making loan signings, the club’s official position is that it would rather save the income [...]
Continue reading...Monday Night Football Fevr 3: Arsenal’s shock defeat to Stoke, the Robinho saga, some midweek predictions and can Egypt win Afcon?
26. January 2010
Hilton: Welcome to our third edition of Monday Night Football Fevr! Calvin: Third? already? Calvin: damn! Hilton: No guest this week… He’s Calvin, I’m Hilton and we’ll discuss what’s been happening in the beautiful game over the past few days Calvin: What’s up, can’t believe we doing our third edition already, I guess it’s been so much fun it [...]
Continue reading...West Ham fans can breathe a sigh of relief
22. January 2010
Spare a thought for Hammers supporters, who’ve had to endure a tough few months. Thanks to the catastrophic collapse of Iceland’s banking sector, Björgólfur Guðmundsson - the “billionaire” (on paper at least) owner of West Ham found he actually had very little money left, as creditors seized the club’s holding company (and those banks he owned).
Continue reading...Monday Night Football Fevr 2: What has happened to Liverpool? Should Rafa go? The Mancini revolution suffers its first setback, and a look at Afcon
19. January 2010
Calvin: Good evening from a very wet Johannesburg, welcome to our second edition of Monday Night Football Fevr. Hilton: Wet? Not in my part of the city… Hilton: Our second edition… Can you believe it’s been two weeks already?! Calvin: LOL - Hey this part of Joburg is wet. Yeah, two weeks! ALREADY Hilton: Lots has happened since our [...]
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19. March 2010
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