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Football analysis: Altitude and goal scoring

Ross · 05 Jul 2010 ·

Amazing to think that we’re now done with 60 out of 64 matches, and by this time next week, the World Cup will have left South Africa.  It’s been a month-long celebration here in SA, and while the disruption to work and traffic and general life will be over, we’re bracing ourselves for the mother […]

Football – the world’s most immoral sport

Ross · 02 Jul 2010 ·

Tomorrow is the start of the Tour de France.  For the next three weeks, media coverage will comprise a mix of adulation and condemnation.   Adulation for the efforts of men who propel themselves over 3,000km of mountains, cobbles and windy flat roads in the world’s most demanding sporting event.  And condemnation because all the while, […]

FIFA and goal-line technology

Ross · 27 Jun 2010 ·

The Round of 16 has produced three great matches so far, and one highly controversial moment.  England v Germany was a fabulous match, end to end, and far more open than many might have expected, given the history of penalties between the sides.  In the end, Germany won handsomely, and for good reason – they […]

2010 World Cup: South Africa, France & Nigeria

Ross · 23 Jun 2010 ·

The 23rd of June was always going to be a significant day for South African sport, if not our history.  Either we would be waking up with the euphoria of having booked a place in the Second Round of the tournament, or we would know that we’d become the first host nation in history to […]

FIFA 2010 World Cup: Goals and tactics

Ross · 23 Jun 2010 ·

We’re now into the final round of matches in the group stages of the 2010 World Cup, and the number of goals being scored has certainly increased.  Goals were a rarity in the first round – only 25 in the first 16 matches, by far the lowest in any round of a World Cup, at […]

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