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Nigeria have a solution to football failure
The Nigerians have a much simpler way of dealing with their early World Cup exit… withdraw the national team from playing competitively for two years. The surprise decision was made by the country’s president, Goodluck Jonathan. Their existing football federation was disbanded, and a new board will be put in place in order to shake-up [...]
England’s inglorious defeat
Oh, dear, here we go again. Our football team were thrashed. Dumped on. Pistol whipped. Humiliated. Beaten into submission. Oh, well… at least our cricket players did us proud.
Please, stop the bigoted chanting
On Sunday afternoon, England will face Germany for a place in the quarter-finals of the World Cup. A great match in prospect between arguably one the greatest rivalries in world football. Unfortunately, whenever these teams are paired up, the banter is routinely reduced to bigoted chanting. In England, the match is constantly used as an [...]
Now it’s holders Italy who are out
Well, well, well….it’s been a crazy few days. Who would’ve thought that fancied teams like France and Italy crash out of the World Cup, while England, who many pundits predicted was certain to be the first team going home, beat Slovenia 1-0, and finishing second in Group C to the United States, who beat Algeria [...]
Budget Woes
So, here it comes. Britain’s worst kept secret is out as the Coalition government starts cutting public spending. The emergency budget delivered by Chancellor George Osborne was typically downbeat. It was probably the first in a long series of fiscal cutbacks which will be felt across the country. The headline issues in the Budget include: [...]
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