Tag Archive - world cup

Adam Parore – Are you kidding me?

20 April 2007 by , No Comments

Adam Parore, ex-New Zealand cricketer, has come out today and said that Australia will be easier to beat than Sri Lanka. New Zealand did win all three matches in the Trans-Tasman Championship but that was an entirely different stage. A stage where only half the regular Australian team played as the rest caught a breather [...]

What a difference a month makes

27 March 2007 by , No Comments

If you don’t feel like reading, skip down to the 7th paragraph to see my point. Easily the most anticipated game of the World Cup to date occurred between Australia and South Africa on Saturday at St. Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean. Current world rankings have South Africa at 1 and Australia at 2. [...]

Italian Training Camp

27 June 2006 by , 2 Comments

In honour of Italy’s breath-taking FIFA World Cup win over underdog Australia, a training camp video has been released to show the world just how Italy has become so effective at their game. One could say they are are the top of their game. USA and Australian fans surely agree. On a serious note, Italy [...]

Australia qualify for the Round of 16!

22 June 2006 by , No Comments

Unbelieveable! I don’t know how to describe what I just watched. With Australia playing Croatia at 1pm Thursday (my time) I tried in vain in grab a live video feed of the game on the Internet. Today it wasn’t going to be good enough to simply participate in the FIFA text updates. I had done [...]

Brazil defeats Australia at the World Cup

19 June 2006 by , No Comments

2 0 Surprised? I’m not. In all honesty this was a match Brazil should have won and should have won easily. The two-nothing scoreline suggests they won comfortably, I’ll be the first to tell you that this is not the case. Here’s my reasoning: The score was 0:0 at half-time The first half was a [...]