Two video clips showing some of the bid proposal imagery put together by the winning host nations for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup tournaments.
Russia will host in 2018:
With Qatar in line for the 2022 tournament:
(I hear suggestions...
Thu, 02 December 2010 11:29 PM / 2 comments
Today #FIFA announced the host countries for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA WORLD CUP touranments.
Many people asked questions about awarding the next two World Cups at the same time. Some say it’s to line the “outgoing regimes”...
Thu, 02 December 2010 9:57 PM / 1 comment
News just in suggests that the iconic yet troubled English Premier League side Liverpool Football Club (LFC) is to be sold to American sports management concern New England Sports Ventures (NESV)
In an announcement made earlier today, the...
Wed, 06 October 2010 1:51 PM / no comments
JoBra’s Soccer Shorts
Police say a South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family.
David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from the village of Makweya, Limpopo province, fought...
Tue, 22 June 2010 1:00 PM / 3 comments
A couple of months back, to celebrate the 100 Days to Kick-off Flay the Flag celebrations, we posted a bunch of ideas and suggestions to help get the vibe going. One of those suggestions was to learn the Diski Dance and we linked to the music...
Fri, 18 June 2010 7:04 PM / 2 comments
Edit: have just found that the original of this letter came from Peter Davies, the sports journalist, over on his blog page at SuperSport.com – As Eric notes, he was not the originator of the letter.
The Boston Globes’ Big Picture has...
Thu, 17 June 2010 12:01 PM / 3 comments
With the first round of Group Matches at the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa almost completed, The BlaBla Blog has put together this handy Match Tracker for free downloading, printing and use offline.
Because we know how difficult it is...
Wed, 16 June 2010 10:00 AM / 1 comment
Awesome stop-motion video of the two opening goals of the 2010 World Cup using Lego players (and German commentary!) Legofussball! Yeah baby, yeah!
The Opening Match played between host-nation South Africa and Mexico at Soccer City in Johannesburg,...
Tue, 15 June 2010 12:30 PM / 2 comments
Our men and children were guests of Mahindra at the England / America football game. We were alone and at leisure to eat, drink and be quite merry. And we did.
I left Linda sitting at our table. We’d feasted; she on a seafood platter and me...
Tue, 15 June 2010 8:09 AM / 5 comments
Television, the drug of the nation of the United States of America, breeds ignorance and feeds radiation. And here’s the proof.
Found on TwitPic where it was posted by @lookitskris, it shows a screen grab of the morning news broadcast of...
Mon, 14 June 2010 8:20 PM / 3 comments
JoBra’s Soccer Shorts
Woodbridge Island Cape Town. Home to multi-million Rand homes in Milnerton, Cape Town. A high-security complex accessible only via a dedicated bridge onto the island. Lots of facilities. No World Cup spirit. It’s where...
Sun, 13 June 2010 8:53 AM / 2 comments
JoBra’s Soccer Shorts
Oh my dear head! What a day it was yesterday. And what a night as well!
85,000 passionate fans in place inside the greatest football stadium the World Cup has ever had the privilege of starting at. I was in the nearby...
Sat, 12 June 2010 1:22 PM / 2 comments
On my blog on news24.co.za I mentioned that I’m currently freelancing at the ad agency who has Wimpy as a client. And this agency (MetropolitanRepublic) recently did an ad for Wimpy where they took the famous Impi song by Johnny Clegg...
Thu, 10 June 2010 9:55 PM / 2 comments
The clubs, pubs, bars, shebeens, malls, fan parks and fan fests, hotels and lodges of South Africa are going to be teeming with delicious foreign delicacies visiting our shores for the first time. Surely it is the responsibility of the South...
Thu, 10 June 2010 6:17 PM / no comments
With 24 hours to go till the opening ceremony of the FIFA™ 2010 SOUTH AFRICA WORLD CUP the excitement in our country has reached an all time high.
I can honestly not remember when last our country was so alive. The waving flags on the cars,...
Thu, 10 June 2010 2:00 PM / 1 comment