I intended to post this on Friday, but the time I had carved out on Friday for this unexpectedly became unavailable, and this past weekend (like most in England) was consumed by my lovely daughter. This post is separated into two parts. First, a review...
World Cup 2014
The World Cup begins on Thursday, and runs until the 13th of July. I'll be in England for most of it, but tomorrow I fly to the US for a.
The group draws for Brazil 2014, which starts next week, are not quite balanced, and I'm writing my usual ill-advised predictions for the group stages. As I wrote in December,.
It's not only in Qatar that workers are dying to build World Cup stadiums. It's also in Brazil, but unlike Qatar, which uses largely very poor migrant laborers, these are workers empowered to take matters into their own hands: Builders at the Itaquerao Arena in...
When the draw for the World Cup finals happened, there was much hilarious moaning in England. Since FIFA hates England, the English received the most difficult group imaginable. England FA.