Every Sunday should be like this. Wake up. Football. Shower. Football (upset result). Breakfast. Football. Football. Lunch. Football. Write DB’s Diary. Football highlights. Dinner. Football preview for tomorrow. Bed. Perfect. While it’s way too early to be sure, it appears this World Cup may well go down as one of the best. I know. Three days in and all that. It’s certainly got off, without a doubt, to one of the...
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Well, I didn’t see that coming. Nathan got grumpy when Theo got a player of the day certificate and he didn’t. Oh yeah, and the Netherlands beating Holland 5-1. Didn’t see that happening either. I love the first couple of weeks of any World Cup. There are loads of games on every day and some of them are pretty good, too. It’s before we get to the business end and teams are generally playing to win rather than...
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Brazil 3-1 Croatia Day 1 of the 2014 FIFA World Cup was a typical, almost clichéd, Waikato day for me. Yes, I watched the opening ceremony and game, while helping get the kids sorted for kindy and school. Yeah, I pretty much agree with what everyone has said about the ref, Brazil’s defending, Croatia’s bad luck, and the result being good for the tournament. Fred’s flop (new US basketball term making the crossover to...
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I was lucky enough to attend the last two FIFA World Cups and, while there, I wrote a series of articles for my local rag, the Matamata Chronicle. (Germany here and South Africa here, if you’re interested.) These articles became known as DB’s World Cup Diary. DB’s World Cup Diary won’t be back this year, at least not in it’s traditional form. As the World Cup in Brazil is about to kick off I’m sat...
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From time to time I’ll rummage through my recently liberated box of old Soccer Express issues and post a few morsels that will help us all remember how the game once was. This time I managed to dig out the ANZAC Day issue from 1990 with a headline that screams out “Reds Back In Europe”. This is somewhat apt, given the aforementioned reds (Liverpool) are back in the Champions League after a little while out of the...
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