Buzzin Football Blog

Now that the Toronto Winter Olympic Games have drawn to a close, the world turns its focus to the year’s biggest sporting event, the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa.
Following the estimated $6 Billion spent on the Toronto games (including infrastructure improvements), it would seem that South Africa has a lot to live up [...]

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Brazil legend Pele famously claimed that an African nation would win the World Cup by 2000.
Although that prediction turned out to be spectacularly wrong it the fact the event will be hosted in the continent this time around will no doubt engender great pride in the players, most notably those of host nation South Africa.
Indeed, [...]

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Fabio Capello led something of a charmed life at the start of his tenure as England manager. His side qualified from what could have been a testing World Cup qualifying group with ease and the off the field problems which had dogged the national team in the past seemed to have been laid to rest [...]

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Michael Owen silenced his critics with a superb hat trick in Germany last night as Manchester United saw off Wolfsburg 3-1 in the final group game of the Champions League.
Owen who had been drafted into a makeshift United side was hailed for his ‘fantastic performance’ by manager Alex Ferguson.
“It was a fantastic performance, Michael’s finishing [...]

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Giovanni Trappotoni’s Republic of Ireland team were robbed of a World Cup finals place last night when French striker Thierry Henry broke the Irish hearts with a deliberate control of the ball with his hand to set up an extra time goal for William Gallas on 103 minutes.
Ireland had done everything right during a game [...]

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