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Union Jack’s Sporting Roundup July 2010

FRANCHITTI IS INDY 500 CHAMPION THE Memorial Day Weekend running of the Indianapolis 500, had a distinctive British feel to it as three Brits filled the first four places. Reigning IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti ran an almost perfect race, leading 155 of the 200 laps, to win his second Indianapolis 500 in grand style. The [...]

Fake Cop Not Happy With England Fans

RESIDENTS of Worksop were taking down their England flags and removing their football shirts on the orders of a . . . bogus policeman. The “officer” operating in and around Worksop, told people to remove their England shirts and take down their flags. A probe was launched after the Guardian revealed that a woman in [...]

Work At Standstill As World Watches Cup

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Leonardo Munoz, wearing a foot-tall blue-and-white wig, is ready to bare it all for the glory of Argentina. Before the start of the World Cup that is keeping billions glued to their TV sets, Diego Maradona — Argentina’s greatest player and now its eccentric national team coach — vowed to [...]

‘Thinking’ About Football . . . Classic Monty Python Sketch

WITH THE the 2010 World Cup well under way, we thought it very appropriate to view the classic Monty Python sketch, Philosophers’ Football Match, depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany. Starring in the sketch are Archimedes (John Cleese), Socrates (Eric Idle), Hegel (Graham Chapman), [...]

US Fans Finally Turned On To Sockkerr

US vs England IRENE, South Africa. The bars are stocked across America, and the pubs are getting ready in England. A 701/2-foot billboard of Clint Dempsey stands near Penn Station in Manhattan, and there’s even a large poster of Landon Donovan in a store along Piccadilly Circus. American soccer has never been more popular in [...]

World Cup TV Fixtures / Schedule

ESPN, ESPN3.com, MOBILETV and ABC  TV will be covering all the games from the 2010 World Cup. Full TV Schedule. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/fixtures

World Cup Fixtures and Results

No point reinventing the wheel is there?  We recommend following this year’s World Cup using the BBC’s fixtures and results pages, which lists teams playing and kick-off times. Definitely one of the best schedules we’ve seen! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/fixtures_and_results

Spain And Brazil Are The Teams To Beat

WORLD CUP By Ridge Mahoney IN THE days and weeks leading up to their historic meeting June 12 in Rustenburg, England and US players will be bombarded with questions, comments, and diatribes about what transpired in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on May 29, 1950. The rematch of that historic occasion, a 1-0 USA victory, is the [...]

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