The 2002 World Cup

This is my World Cup op and I am here to tell you about it. So just in case you don‘t know... What is the World Cup? ------------------------- The World Cup is held every four years with 32 contenders. It all starts from two years before the actual World Cup, (called the World Cup finals) with the qualifying. It depends how well the many more than 32 contenders do in qualifying to who will compete. For just over 2 weeks from the start of the finals there is what is called the 'group stages'. The 32 contenders are split into 8 groups of 4, and everyone in the groups plays everybody else ... more

Oh well, with the football season just finished, you’d think all us football followers would be feeling a bit down in the dumps, I mean come on, what the hell are we going to do with ourselves on a Saturday/Sunday afternoon/evening over the next few months? What, with no football matches to attend/watch/listen to, I suppose we could all go on a holiday/break or even do the unthinkable and go shopping with the missus for once, we could get those DIY jobs that have been left half-done from last summer, finished…Or we could just sit there and wallow in self-pity and pine for the new football ... more

Well, the world cup 2002 was something great, but also a little bit disappointing, it was kind of that parties you don´t how to talk about. You don´t know how to rate and don´t know what to tell your friends you think about it. But, here´s my chance and I´ll try. Generally bad Well, call me old-fashioned, but from my point of view football world cups should be held in Europe or South America, where football is football, with a noisy corwd, with a lot of great fans and tradition. Maybe it was something special for Asia holding the World Cup. But remember the crowds in games like South Africa ... more

The focus of today's attention is that seminal sporting event The FIFA World Cup. Blokes love football - don’t we? We can talk about it for hours down the pub, in the office or just about anywhere else. Anyone who doesn’t like football needs their head examined – what’s wrong with them? They must be mad! Wrong. Let me cast any shadow of a doubt from your mind – I f**ing hate football. Nonetheless, I am a realist, and I know that it makes a lot of people happy, so I can generally live with it. But when it comes to the bloody World Cup, then it’s a different ... more

::: WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED CONSCIOUSNESS TO BRING YOU THE FOLLOWING NEWS ITEM LIVE ON LOCATION FROM KOREA, WHERE HISTORY IS BEING MADE ... Ladies ... Gentleman ... Fellow Footie-Fans... . It's A Great Day To Be "Still Alive!" As I type this op, I'm watching the final few seconds of referee stoppage time at the end of United States' World Cup 2nd Round match against Mexico... The score is the USA --two, Mexico --nil... Barring the occurrence of the most frightful two-minute collapse in World Cup history, the US Team will be advancing to the quarter final round to play the... [oh ... more