WORLD CUP 2014: MY SOUTH AMERICAN DREAM

WORLD CUP 2014: MY SOUTH AMERICAN DREAM

THROWAWAY remarks about future events that eventually come to pass. Well, threaten to come to pass. Odd things they are. You get a self-satisfied hum of contentment that you saw something before anyone else did, but usually for me it’s offset by a dull thud because I...

AUSTRALIA (V) – COMPARE AND CONTRAST

COMPARE and contrast the following statements. Both were made by managers whose teams finished bottom of their qualifying group at World Cup 2014. Statement A “We feel emotional because the fact is we wanted to do so well in the tournament, to get out of the group. We...

Australia (IV) – Lipstick on the telly

MY earliest meaningful world cup memory is of my beloved Scotland being pitted against Brazil in 1982, in Seville, on a balmy, sweltering Spanish night. Minutes into the tie, the ball dropped into the inside right channel from a knock down from John Wark. The...
HONDURAS (I): A PIECE OF TWO HALVES

HONDURAS (I): A PIECE OF TWO HALVES

by Andi Thomas [A NOTE. For reasons that will soon become apparent, you are essentially reading two pieces here. Everything outside square brackets was written before France beat Honduras 3-0; everything inside after.] Some facts about Honduras. It has a population of...

Australia (III) – Chile

AUSTRALIA’S 3-1 loss to Chile in their opening Group B game the other night bore out pretty much everything our Aussie correspondents had to tell us about their team in the last few weeks. I asked TAW regular Andy Gargett for his take on things after the game....
Russia (I): Стикер

Russia (I): Стикер

By Samantha Mikhailovna. READER, There are those who say I may be asking too much of you here. They would suggest that what follows requires a very niche experience of world literature (link: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36238/36238-h/36238-h.htm#Page_67) and Panini...

AUSTRALIA (II): How The Socceroos Will Play

WHEN I set about researching the current Aussie team, its manager, and the tactical side of things, it quickly dawned on me how little I knew. There were only four players whose names I recognised (one of them spending the latter part of the season injured at my...
TAW MAGAZINE 10

TAW MAGAZINE 10

Cover Exclusive Noel Gallagher interview Extracts from a forthcoming book by some of the TAW crew Neil Scott assesses the transformation of Brendan Rodgers Bookie Phil Blundell is back with his tips for the World Cup A teenager’s perspective on the season just...