No one could doubt what Liverpool manager Brendon Rodgers would have done if Morpheus offered him the blue or red pill in the “Matrix.” Liverpool is about to go back down the rabbit hole after England’s sleeping giant agreed a 16 million fee for Italian maverick Mario Balotelli. Well, it …
Read More »Italy bites the dust; Suarez makes a meal of Chiellini
It is irrefutable now. Uruguay and Liverpool striker Luis Suarez either needs a psychologist or a new dietician. For the third time in his professional career, Suarez bit an opponent during a football match today as, en route to a 1-0 win for the South American nation, the gifted attacker …
Read More »Ticos Time: Costa Rica stuns Italy and eliminates England
Show up at their World Cup venue. Get mauled. Repeat. Costa Rica had its game plan drawn up by the rest of the world but, thankfully, “El Ticos” decided to go its own way; and the result has been spectacular. Apart from a Spanish title defence that was shorter than …
Read More »Super Mario strikes: Italian wise guys tame Three Lions
“How would you like it if I have Mario Balotelli kick in your back door, eh? Would you like that?” Italian “wise guys” are renowned for unanswerable questions and the England football team certainly could not find the right response yesterday as the “Azzurri” launched its 2014 World Cup campaign …
Read More »Spanish inquisition ends; but is it better than watching Brazil?
On Sunday night, the Spain football team left its opponents confounded, breathless and whipped into an open mouthed awe. And those were just the armchair critics. God knows how the Italian players felt. Spain’s 4-0 triumph over Italy at the Euro 2012 finals in Kiev’s Olympic Stadium was the most …
Read More »Spain’s conquistadors aren’t done yet
So you’ve lost your taste for tiki-taka, have you? Perhaps you should consider alternative plans for tomorrow when Spain defends its European football crown against Italy at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine. Should Spain win, it will become the first nation to win three consecutive major trophies after the …
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