Tag: World Cup

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Is Philipp Lahm the best player in the world right now?

He has led his country to win the World Cup for the first time since 1990, he has won pretty much everything at club level with Bayern Munich and is arguably the world’s best right back, left back and can

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CGI-filled World Cup montage will help ease your post-cup pain

The World Cup is over. It’s been gone a while now but the realisation that it won’t be returning for another four years is only just perhaps sinking in for many. It was a brilliant tournament filled with excitement, incide

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Football: the African affinity

The phrase “football is in our blood” features as one of the most prominent clichés related to the sport when describing the affinity a region, community or country has with it. However, this cliché does immense justice t

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World Cup highlights turned into outstanding animation

The World Cup is over, the fan park is being packed away and the chirpy Germans are on their way home. It’s been a great tournament that has had everything in terms of drama and entertainment, with a vast array

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Funny video reenacting the highlights from the World Cup final

This summer, William Lawson’s helped a bunch of fans create a ballsy alternative to the usual hype and hysteria surrounding the World Cup in Brazil and it’s been excellent. As soon as any iconic moment occurred, shortly a

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Germany: worthy World Cup winners

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past 24 hours, I’m sure you’re fully aware of the fact that Germany are now world champions after defeating Lionel Messi’s Argentina 1-0 in the World Cup final and, in my

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Songwriter Tom Rosenthal pens excellent Luis Suarez ballad

Yes, the Luis Suarez bite is old news, it’s been covered to death and the World Cup has moved on since. It shouldn’t be forgotten though, so songwriter Tom Rosenthal has written a tune about probably the most hated fo

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A look back at Holland v Mexico: match highlights

Fortaleza provided the venue for an intriguing second round clash between Holland and Mexico which promised to be a wonderful game in keeping with the enthralling end-to-end football that has made the 2014 World Cup o

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Oops: angry American shouts abuse at Van Persie thinking he’s ‘cheater’ Robben

This World Cup could be the turning point for football (soccer) in the United States after the USMNT’s valiant effort in Brazil seemed to gain a huge following back home in America with fans crowding bars and hogging sofas

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The No Rules Cup: hilarious video reenacting the best goals of the World Cup

This summer, William Lawson’s are helping a bunch of real fans create a ballsy alternative to the usual hype and hysteria surrounding football. All the best and worst moments of this summer’s action are being recreated in

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Win £3000 sponsorship for your local team

It’s been exactly 13 days since Italy lost to Costa Rica and we found out that England was well and truly without a hope in Brazil. Not sure about you guys, but we’ve been slowly recovering from the heart-wrenching d

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Brazil fan films himself farting on Neymar’s girlfriend

Yes, you did read the headline correctly. It happened. We aren’t proud of it, Neymar’s girlfriend Bruna Marquezine definitely isn’t proud of it, and the man in question probably isn’t proud of it either. Actually, he’s probably chu

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World Cup: fantastic commentary on James Rodriguez’s stunning goal

James Rodriguez’s goal against Uruguay is easily one of, if not the best goal of the World Cup so far. Australia’s Tim Cahill might have something to say about that though but the Colombian’s strike is easily in the top two at

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World Cup: Brazil good but not great

Brazil. A Selecao. Canarinho. They’ve helped form the football landscape all around the world with their phenomenal conveyor belt of talent and their care free attitude to football and the way they skilfully play the game. When y

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World Cup: Croatia and Mexico fans in mass brawl during Group A clash

Miguel Herrera’s Mexico cemented their place in the last 16 of the World Cup on Monday after convincingly beating Croatia 3-1 in an impressive performance. Sadly though, occurrences in the stands have been making