December 2010
18 posts
AFR Podcast - Capturing the Game with Ryu Voelkel
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Growing up in Japan, Ryu usually only had the photos in the newspaper to assist his imagination in developing the scenery and atmosphere surrounding some of the biggest matches in football. And his imagination has yet to let him down…
Oliver Sparrow, Ulysse Pasquier, and Eric & Jordan Beard of the AFR...
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BBC: Blackpool boss Ian Holloway opposes winter... →
Ian Holloway is a first-class card, and the link features the Blackpool manager teeing off on the circumstances that have FIFA considering playing the 2022 World Cup in January due to Qatar’s summer heat. It includes wonderful slagging of both Sepp Blatter and UEFA’s Michel Platini.
(Regardless of what happens to Blackpool from this point on out, I hope Holloway remains a fixture in...
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Qatarcelona? Barca puts UNICEF lower on the shirt →
Barcelona have ended their 111-year history of refusing commercial shirt sponsorship by signing a record £125m deal with the Qatar Foundation.
The Catalan giants have paid to carry the Unicef logo for the last five years and the children’s charity will share shirt space with the new sponsors.
Barcelona have a sizeable debt but now claim to be “the undisputed brand leader in world...
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UEFA Champions League Final 16
In Pot 1 (Group Winners) will be:
Tottenham Hotspur (England) Schalke 04 (Germany) Manchester United (England) Barcelona (Spain) Bayern Munich (Germany) Chelsea (England) Real Madrid (Spain) Shaktar Donetsk (Ukraine)
In Pot 2 (Group runners-up) will be:
Internazionale (Italy) [defending champion of this competition] Lyon (France) Valencia (Spain) FC Copenhagen (Sweden) AS Roma (Italy) Marseille...
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ATD Dropcast #4 - World Cup 2018/2022 Decision Day... →
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Mike Georger, Tumblr’s own SUPERSTAR Illex, and yours truly hash out the confusion and baffling conclusion to the World Cup bid process that unfolded today in Zurich. Listen as we probably become members of Qatar’s Most Wanted and laugh.
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BREAKING: 2018, 2022 WORLD CUP HOSTS NAMED
2018 - Russia
2022 - Qatar
Your thoughts?