Glory glory Aston Villa!

Yup another win for the MIGHTY MIGHTY Aston Villa as we thumped Burnley 5-2… C’mon Villa you good thing!
We’re looking really good this year – European qualification is definately on the cards.
Interesting football rumour doing the rounds… apparently a South African consortium is going to announce a bid for the embattled Portsmouth Football Club. Yes [...]

That’s not right…

… I see that Togo have been banned from the next two AFCON cups in 2012 and 2014 because they elected to pull out of the 2010 event.
That’s a bit harsh considering they had just been mown down by AK47 wielding terrorists who happened to kill two of their delegations when their bus was ambushed [...]

There is only pain for Liverpool supporters

I meant to post this earlier today but got a little caught up.
Last night after Liverpool went down to Reading I saw some pearlers on Facebook and Twitter.
However none of them beat this comment I saw on Twitter:
“I wouldn’t let Liverpool walk my dog. They can’t hold on to a lead.”

Not what African soccer needs right now

Last night reports came in that the Togo football team had been attacked on their team bus as they arrived in Angola. Apparently millitants sprayed their bus with machine gun fire killing the driver and injuring a couple of the players and their support staff.
In a year where Africa is finally going to host a [...]

Africa Cup Of Nations SuperScore – Now Open

Calling all Soccer fans,
The Africa Cup of Nations tournament kicks off on Sunday 10 January with hosts Angola taking on Mali in the opening game of Africa’s football spectacle. Our SuperScore prediction game gets you closer to the action by allowing you to predict the score for each of the [...]

There are going to be some VERY grumpy people in Manchester tonight…

Shame… just when the Manchester United season looked like it was getting back on track, they came up against a Leeds side who were in an unforgiving mood.
Apparently this was the first time Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had lost in the third round since he arrived at Old Trafford 24 years ago. Hows [...]

Impressive

I drove by the new Nelspruit football stadium for the 2010 World CupĀ earlier this week – Geez it looks impressive from far out!
A really good advert for the city of Nelspruit – think they just need to sort out that last bit of roadworks and then it will be ready to welcome the international tourists.
The [...]

What a day in the English Premiership!

Yes please! Liverpool down, Aston Villa wins and believe it or not Fulham even managed to give Manchester United carrots.
I missed this last night but I believe that Mark Hughes has been sacked as the Manchester City boss… the year hasn’t really worked out for them in quite the way their big spending backers would [...]

Is football a mainstream sport in South Africa?

This is probably a bit of a facetious post but one of the discussions that came up in one of our office debates earlier in the week is whether or not football was actually a mainstream sport in South Africa.
There is no question that it is one of the more popular sports in South Africa, [...]