South Korea (I): How Do You Solve A Problem Like Korea
By Magic Spongers FOR US AND PROBABLY YOU, mentioning South Korea and the World Cup immediately invokes 2002, Guus Hiddink, Ahn Jung-Hwan and suspiciously atrocious refereeing. Unfortunately for us, and probably you, 2002 is now 12 years ago and none of that is...
Japan (I): We’re On Our Way
By Ben Johnson JAPAN. Close your eyes, sit back and empty your mind of the nonsense that is currently floating round in it. Ask yourself a question, this question (you might have to open your eyes for a minute to find out what the question is, soz), what is the first...
WORLD CUP: GO ON THEN ROY, PROVE US WRONG
JESUS, it's actually happening isn't it? I mean like, today, happening. Now, immediately, within hours. And the mania has crept in. No, hold on, back a bit. Full disclosure is needed. Years back, when the kids were a younger, a lot younger, so young that the eldest...
TEENAGE KICKS: THE MAGIC OF BRAZIL ‘82
THE thing about memories is that they are always there for you, writes NEIL SCOTT. They sit patiently somewhere round the back of your cerebral cortex until summoned into action on a moment’s whim, to provide a rose-tinted window to a time long gone. Like many...
WIDOW CRANKY
WORLD Cup Widows – a phrase that's become all too familiar....unfortunately, writes KATE FORRESTER. Its origins are pretty basic. Picture the scene: In the testosterone-fuelled corner, we have an England-shirt-wearing, face-painted, glazed-looking fella with crisp...
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South Korea (I): How Do You Solve A Problem Like Korea
By Magic Spongers FOR US AND PROBABLY YOU, mentioning South Korea and the World Cup immediately invokes 2002, Guus Hiddink, Ahn Jung-Hwan and suspiciously atrocious refereeing. Unfortunately for us, and probably you, 2002 is now 12 years ago and none of that is...
Japan (I): We’re On Our Way
By Ben Johnson JAPAN. Close your eyes, sit back and empty your mind of the nonsense that is currently floating round in it. Ask yourself a question, this question (you might have to open your eyes for a minute to find out what the question is, soz), what is the first...
WORLD CUP: GO ON THEN ROY, PROVE US WRONG
JESUS, it's actually happening isn't it? I mean like, today, happening. Now, immediately, within hours. And the mania has crept in. No, hold on, back a bit. Full disclosure is needed. Years back, when the kids were a younger, a lot younger, so young that the eldest...
TEENAGE KICKS: THE MAGIC OF BRAZIL ‘82
THE thing about memories is that they are always there for you, writes NEIL SCOTT. They sit patiently somewhere round the back of your cerebral cortex until summoned into action on a moment’s whim, to provide a rose-tinted window to a time long gone. Like many...
WIDOW CRANKY
WORLD Cup Widows – a phrase that's become all too familiar....unfortunately, writes KATE FORRESTER. Its origins are pretty basic. Picture the scene: In the testosterone-fuelled corner, we have an England-shirt-wearing, face-painted, glazed-looking fella with crisp...