Germany won the World Cup for the first time as a unified nation with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Argentina. Since an abysmal showing at Euro 2004 (when they failed to win a match), they […]
Sport | Stage set for historic World Cup final but humiliated hosts miss out
Germany and Argentina will meet each other in a World Cup final for the third time as both sides came through their semi-final ties; albeit in contrasting fashion. While Holland took the Argentinians all the […]
Sport | World Cup down to four
Saturday saw the latter two quarter-finals played, with Argentina facing Belgium and the Netherlands up against Costa Rica. The Argentinians were aiming to reach their first semi-final since 1990 and they got off to a […]
Sport | Super South American Saturday
Today sees the start of the knockout stages in Brazil as the hosts face Chile whilst Colombia takes on Uruguay in a South American football fiesta! Belo Horizonte plays to the first game of the […]
Sport | Group stages come to a close as Algeria progress
Yesterday saw the end of the group stages for Brazil 2014, with sixteen teams already sent packing before the knockout rounds begin and the other half still dreaming of progressing to the final. There were […]
Sport | Today's World Cup Preview
Group G is one of few groups where none of the teams have either gone through or gone out going into the final set of matches. Germany and the United States, the top two, know […]
Sport | Wednesday World Cup Round-up
The 2014 World Cup has been unbelievably generous, with lots of attacking football and goals galore. The excitement continued in the first set of games, with Argentina edging out Nigeria and Bosnia and Herzegovina earning […]
Sport | Will changed England line up bring Roy joy?
This final group encounter in Belo Horizonte for both England and Costa Rica should and could have assumed a different significance; the expected scenario was England needing a win in this match to progress with […]
Sport | Portugal score late to crush American dream
With the second round of group games complete the World Cup is still surpassing all expectations. Sunday’s matches gave us late drama in two games that had big consequences. After the first round of games […]
Sport | France Blaise past Switzerland whilst Costa Rica complete Italian job
Well, it’s official, England are out of the World Cup. It came a bit earlier than expected but the good news is that either Italy or Uruguay will be joining us. After Friday’s results only […]
Sport | Roy’s Boys Blown Away By the Suarez Show – England vs. Uruguay Review
Being a Leeds United and England fan, Thursday 19th June doesn’t go down as one of my favourite days in football. First, I was notified that some bloke called Dave had been given the Head […]
Sport | Colombia continue to impress but can Italy do us a favour?
Okay so the England boys didn’t perform, but let’s be honest no one really expected them too, so instead of beating ourselves up about the ifs, buts and maybes let’s focus on the rest of […]