After the Champions League final, we all enter the football free few weeks before the big kick off on June 11th. I say football free, who am i kidding, there were of course plenty of final preparation friendlies that were played. The age old question ‘ what does a friendly prove?’ is still worth asking, [...]
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World Cup morsels
May 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Armchair Fan, De Bunker
With less than a month to go there is plenty going on from the countries who get to experience the security measures being put in place. Let’s have a quick swim round the sewage outlet pipe of news. So, Landon Donovan that well known mind-games player has rolled out the big gun. Rooney is tired. [...]
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Are you Germans in disguise?
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments · De Bunker, Football
Despite at times playing dull, safe, and unimaginative football England have won all their qualifiers, for the first time ever. But where is the flair, the excitement, what’s there to love? OK, we’ll never have a player like Pele, Cruyff or Maradona. But then Brazil, Holland and Argentina probably never will again. But look across [...]
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From working class to business class
November 7th, 2005 · No Comments · De Bunker, Football
Alright, WCO admit it?s not on the scale of, say Newton and apples, but for WCO it was significant. So over a bun and a cup of tea, we gathered round the single bar electric fire and got to thinking, What?s so different from 1966? So with our MSc in Cod Social Sciences from the [...]
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