July 2, 2010
Nike released the pretty impressive Write The Future commercial, promoting the World Cup just before it kicked off in South Africa on June 11th. Now people are calling the commercial the ‘curse of Nike’,’ because most of the players featured along with their team mates didn’t perform well (particularly England (waste men) and France) and have now all been knocked out of the tournament. Tennis champion Roger Federer also appears in the commercial and he was spectacularly knocked out of the Wimbledon […]
June 27, 2010
Weeks before the World Cup kicked off in South Africa, a visitor to the site accused me of being negative when I said that the England team didn’t stand a chance of winning the tournament. Well guess what folks – IT’S A WRAP! Germany destroyed England’s “chances” of going home with the World Cup today in a highly controversial match. Germany went on to easily win 4-1 after an encounter in which a wrongly disallowed goal had prevented England completing a comeback […]
June 21, 2010
Former footballer and fired TV pundit Robbie Earle has claimed that ITV bosses knew he was buying 400 World Cup tickets through them. Earle insisted that he had no idea friend Keith Higgins, would sell them on to a third party breaking FIFA rules. The Daily Mail also reports that ITV is now at the centre of a World Cup ticketing storm after it was revealed that, A top ITV executive – one of its four directors of news and sport – […]
June 15, 2010
The Daily Mirror reports that rapper Tinchy Stryder has flown out to South Africa to cheer the England team up after Saturday’s lacklustre performance against the USA. A “source” disclosed, Since Saturday’s game, the lads have not been in the greatest of spirits and they all needed something to lift them up. Tinchy met some of the players briefly, which was the perfect tonic. “He dedicated his song Number 1 to Rob Green which went down a treat. It put a smile back […]
June 14, 2010
Via The Mail The controversial vuvuzela horns could be banned from World Cup following thousands of complaints from fans, broadcasters and the players. South Africa’s World Cup organising chief Danny Jordaan revealed his officials had been swamped by protests about the ear-bursting horns being blown during matches. Mr Jordaan told BBC Sport the vuvuzela would be banned ‘if there are grounds to do so’. Continue Reading…. When England eventually get knocked out of the tournament I bet they blame it on the vuvuzela, […]
June 6, 2010
Dizzie Rascal and actor James Corden performed their England World Cup ‘anthem’ Shout on tonight’s Britain’s Got Talent. Well….. Dizzie has come a long way. It’s all about getting that paper now. As for the song…. Your thoughts please….
June 4, 2010
Via BBC News England captain Rio Ferdinand has been ruled out of the World Cup after suffering a knee injury in training. The 31-year-old centre-back had a scan after hurting his left knee following a challenge with Emile Heskey during Friday’s first training session. He emerged from hospital on crutches and Tottenham’s Michael Dawson, who had been put on standby, is expected to fly to South Africa in the next 12 hours. Continue Reading….. Earlier on today my colleague said that a member from […]
December 14, 2009
The British mainstream media will never change. This is a disgrace. South Africa will host the 2010 football World Cup, and the “delightful” News Of The World has decided to take it upon themselves to “warn” English fans about the host nation. I’m not sure if the writer of this article ( Sophy Ridge) knows this but there are people living with AIDS/HIV all over the world. And credit card fraud and scams also take place all over the world not just in Africa! […]
September 26, 2009
Victoria Beckham Via The Daily Mirror England’s Wags yesterday demanded the immediate lifting of their ban from next year’s World Cup – claiming they are vital to success on the pitch. Coach Fabio Capello has said Cheryl Cole, Victoria Beckham, Alex Curran and the other wives and girlfriends can only see their men one day a week in South Africa. But the Wags claim the team is likely to struggle without them and say many of the players feel the same. TV […]
MAD NEWS UK 