The Vuvuzela World Cup

Thanks to Mark Wessels (and Reuters) for this excerpt from a great photograph, just one amongst many on the Boston Globe website.

If you’re a football fan, and you intend to watch some World Cup matches, and you don’t know what a vuvuzela, you soon will. The phrase ‘wall of sound’ is about to get a [...]

The Ultimate World Cup Calendar

I have spent the past three days in Johannesburg, amongst colleagues and friends who all seem to have tickets for various mouth-watering matches in the month ahead. To make matters worse, I have to fly out on Thursday night, just sixteen hours before the opening match kicks off. Still, I will make it home in [...]

Tanner Ba’ Fitba’, Brazil-Style

If you’ve ever wondered how Brazil manages to produce so many brilliantly talented footballers, the answer is in the little piece of video above that I flipped last week!
Kids in Brazil don’t need a real football or a nice pitch – all they need is a convenient space and an object that will serve as [...]

Oh dear oh dear oh dear….

Celtic 0-2 Ross County
….the headline is a euphemistic translation, for those who do not like swearie words….
I listened to the second half on the radio, and by the mid-point of the half, even I, a lifelong Celtic fan, was hoping that Ross County could stick it out. Of course, they did [...]

Phelps returns home

It’s no wonder that Michael Phelps won all those gold medals in Beijing!

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Rangers make the final

Well done, the ‘Gers! As a Celtic fan, I will be supporting this great Scottish team all the way in the UEFA Cup final in Manchester on the 17th May.
Now, if they could just see their way to letting us take the SPL……….

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McGeady Magic

Who needs Ronaldinho when Aiden McGeady’s around?

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Chances?

A few more stupid decisions such as this one by the England management and Scotland might even stand a chance in tomorrow’s Calcutta Cup match.

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Messy, unsophisticated and indisciplined…

Can two examples equal a trend? Probably not. But if you type ‘learning log blog’ into google.co.uk, the first two entries that appear are the respective blogs of my good friends, Don Ledingham and Laurie O’Donnell. Neither of them any longer writes just a simple blog. Don started the ‘trend’ by calling his blog, Don’s [...]