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Football/Soccer
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Sepp Blatter Wants To End Penalties
25 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sepp Blatter is at it again. The FIFA president said today that penalty shoot-outs are “a tragedy”. He challenged Franz Beckenbauer, honorary president of Bayern Munich, and head of the Football Task Force 2014 – a panel that will recommend rule changes to football – to come up with an alternative.
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Naked Ukrainian Feminists Strike Again, Grab Euro 2012 Trophy [Mildly N5FW]
22 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Our friends from FEMEN, the topless Ukrainian protest group, have struck again – this time at the Euro 2012 trophy display in Poland. They are protesting the prestigious sporting event and the economies of prostitution and sex trafficking that spring up around it. See their passionate cries for justice after the jump.
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Heineken Star Final 2012 – A Beautiful Vibe For A Beautiful Game
21 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Over 150 competition winners representing 22 countries arrived in Cape Town over the weekend to experience the Heineken Star Final. The Star Final is a competition held annually, where winners are flown off to watch the Champions League Final in an awesome city. Previous cities have included Hong Kong and Rio de Janeiro. Cape Town […]
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Can You Feel It? The UEFA Champions League Final Goes Down Tomorrow
18 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
It’s the world’s most watched annual sporting event. Tomorrow is the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final. Bayern Munich vs Chelsea. Germany vs England. We won’t go further than that. Do that in your own mind. At 20h45 South African time, the English and German giants will do battle in the colourful Allianz Arena, north of […]
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The 2012 UEFA Champions League Final Is Coming To Cape Town
16 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Last week we gave you the low down on the Heineken Start Final, and how YOU could win two tickets to this rad, and ultra exclusive event. For the past five years Heineken International has hosted the Heineken Star Final, where selected global ticket winners can view the UEFA Champions League final in exotic cities […]
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Bafana Bafana Player Teko Modise Faces Arrest
10 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
It would appear that Bafana Bafana player (and Mamelodi Sundowns captain) Teko Modise has landed himself in a spot of trouble after failing to pay a monthly maintenance to his estranged wife. She now wants him to be held in contempt of court and sent to jail.
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AFCON: “Cape Town Did Not Meet Criteria For Hosting”
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
African Cup of Nations Local Organising Committee head, Mvuzo Mbebe, told reporters yesterday that Cape Town had not been selected as a host city for the upcoming AFCON because it “did not meet the criteria for hosting,” but did not elaborate quite where the Mother City fell short. Mayor De Lille has different ideas however…
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Can Roy Hodgson Turn England’s Title Drought Around?
02 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, England’s Football Association announced the rather controversial choice of Roy Hodgson to take the reins of the national football team from Fabio Capello for the next four years. Hodgson has the experience of a long career in coaching behind him, but can he turn the fans and even the players to his side in order to recapture England’s long gone football glory days?
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British Student Jailed For Racist Muamba Abuse On Twitter [VIDEO]
28 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Welsh university student has been jailed for 56 days for a “racially-aggravated public order offence” after making offensive tweets about Bolton Wanderers player Fabrice Muamba, who collapsed with heart failure during a FA cup tie with Tottenham Hotspur on March 17. See the full Twitter feed, after the jump.
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Soccer’s Richest Stars Revealed
22 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
France Football magazine has released this year’s list of the world’s highest-earning soccer players – Rooney earned $32,6 million for a single goal, and Samuel Eto’o got $37 million for moving to Russia. And to everybody’s surprise, Beckham isn’t the biggest earner anymore; see who’s taken the lead after the jump.
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Soccer Player Suffers Cardiac Arrest During Match Over Weekend
19 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An FA Cup quarterfinal match between Tottenham Hotspur and Bolton Wanderers came to a shocking halt over the weekend after a player suffered a cardiac arrest during the game. It took nearly two hours to get 23-yeard-old Fabrice Muamba’s heart to work on its own again, and he is currently still fighting for his life.
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Eric Cantona Wants To Be The French President
10 Jan 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Just when you thought Eric Cantona couldn’t reinvent himself any more, he hits us with a bender from deep left-field. According to DailyMail, “Manchester United legend Eric Cantona is plotting a stunning bid for the French presidency. The Old Trafford favourite, who also enjoyed a spell with Leeds, needs to secure the backing of 500 elected […]
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Poor Blatter Hurt By Racism Attack
23 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Poor Sepp Blatter. Things still aren’t going his way. Blatter said yesterday how hurt he felt after being criticised for his comments about racism in football. Visibly perplexed, he said: “I was very much hurt by these comments because it touched me in my conscience.”
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Sepp Blatter Says Racial Insults On Soccer Field “Should Be Forgotten”
17 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
FIFA president Sepp Blatter said yesterday that racial insults on the soccer field are nothing more than “on-field provocation”. He also suggested that players should accept this as part of the game and simply shake hands at the end of the match. I was actually trying to think of something sarcastic to insert here, but I’m too busy weeping for humanity at the moment.
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Ronaldo Accidentally Forwards Fan’s Sexy Pictures To Everyone In His Address Book
02 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Did I mention that his fiancee was in his address book as well? According to Ronaldo, he was attempting to delete the Dutch fan’s saucy snaps (which included her in numerous half naked poses in a shirt with “too hot to handle” scrawled on the front), but pressed forward instead. Clearly something broke his concentration.
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Uncontrollable Orlando Pirates Players Love To Party
25 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Orlando Pirates have a good attitude towards success. Grounded, really. Because they like to have a good time, whether they’re winning or losing. Reports today say some of the players have turned the team residence in Buccleuch, Johannesburg into a “party haven”. Judging by the way they’ve been jolling, the defending league champions don’t seem to be at all worried that they have hit a slump in form.
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Few Surprises On Annual Football Rich List
05 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
FourFourTwo is a venerable British football mag, and each year their website runs a survey detailing the bottom line of England’s most popular sport. Here are some of the highlights from this year’s survey.
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Bakkies Botha Is Going To Miss Sunday’s Game
08 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Bakkies Botha’s chronic Achilles’ tendon problem flared up once again at training earlier this week. It now looks like he will almost certainly miss South Africa’s rugby World Cup opener against Wales on Sunday. There is also an injury concern over winger Brian Habana, who also had not taken a full part in training this week.
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Samuel Eto’o Looks Set To Become World’s Highest Salaried Athlete
24 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Cameroonian soccer star, Samuel Eto’o could soon overtake Cristiano Ronaldo, Alex Rodriguez and Kobe Bryant as the highest salaried professional athlete on the planet. A fairly obscure Russian team announced a huge transfer deal to acquire Eto’o from Inter Milan yesterday.
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Real Madrid Golf Cart Runs Over Female Fan On UCLA Campus, Drives On [VIDEO]
15 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Most pre-season preparation has begun for northern hemisphere football teams that will shortly start their new seasons. Coincidentally, Spanish soccer club Real Madrid are in Los Angeles to face LA Galaxy on Saturday. They decided to train on the UCLA campus in preparation for the match. And drive golf carts around, into someone, with perfect timing.
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Josefine Oqvist Swaps Shirts With Fan At Woman’s World Cup [VIDEO]
06 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
You know how sometimes football players take off their shirts after the game and swop them with other players or fans? That happens at the FIFA Woman’s World Cup too. The only difference is that when it happens there, former pin-up models, like Josefine Öqvist, are the ones stripping down…
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Absurd Handball Moment Goes Unnoticed During Australia Versus Equatorial Guinea 2011 Women’s World Cup [VIDEO]
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The Australian women’s football team, the Matildas, have recorded their first win in the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2011 after they defeated Equatorial Guinea 3-2 in their second Group D match in Bochum, Germany, on Sunday. Fortunately, a bizarre handball moment that occurred during the match didn’t go all Thierry Henry on them.
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Diary Of An Exhausted Arsenal Fan
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It’s been a weird sort of season. How do you reconcile the fact that Arsenal beat Chelsea, Manchester United and Barcelona in the last six months of the season with the fact that in the exact same period they lost to third-rate Bolton Wanderers, Stoke City and Birmingham City? How do we come to terms with both the heady highs and the unrelenting lows, like the crushing defeat to Birmingham in the Carling Cup Final and the astonishing 4-4 draw to Newcastle United which effectively ended our title hopes? What does one say of the beautiful football, the young talent and complete lack of any sort of silverware in the last six seasons?
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Sink Sepp! The Video Game Is Here – Stop The Captain From Sailing
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Disappointed with smug Sepp? Never fear, the interweb has a little something to ease that feeling for you on this, the hour that we officially welcome in the Cape Town Friday Rule. Sink Sepp allows players to fire cannons packed with exploding footballs at the Fifa boss while he tries to sail his ship.
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Exclusive: Danny Jordaan Reveals SA World Cup Revenues
01 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 4 Comments
In an exclusive interview with 2oceansvibe, the CEO of South Africa’s 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee, Danny Jordaan has revealed today that the SA World Cup’s financial statements support the tournament’s perceived success. Jordaan confirmed, “In today’s forthcoming AGM, the Operations Report and Financial Report will confirm that the SA World Cup shows a total revenue […]
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Australian Senator Demands FIFA “Refunds” Bid Money
30 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a statement titled “Red Card for FIFA”, independent senator Nick Xenophon has urged the federal government to ask for a refund from FIFA of the A$45.6 million spent on the failed bid to host the 2022 World Cup, saying the bid could not succeed because of corruption within football’s world governing body.
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Sir Alex Ferguson Expected To Go On Defensive In Wake Of Giggs Twitter Furore
24 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
With only four days left until the final climax of Manchester United’s football season and their Champions League final clash against Barcelona at Wembley this Saturday, Fergie is expected to address the matter later today. The issue poses a huge test of Giggs’s experience and Ferguson’s ability to galvanise his squad for Saturday.
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Football Legend Eddie Lewis Passes Away
03 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Football legend Eddie Lewis has passed away in a Johannesburg hospital at age 76 after a battle with cancer. Lewis will be famously remembered for his many contributions to the sport around the world but none more so than his feat of coaching two major clubs at the same time – Kaizer Chiefs and Wits University.
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Sergio Ramos Drops Copa del Rey. From A Bus. Bus Rides Over It. [VIDEO]
21 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Real Madrid recently beat Barcelona 1-0 in the Copa del Rey final. What is the Copa del Rey? The best comparison would probably be to describe it as Spain’s FA Cup. Fine job, Sergio. Fine, fine job. [Thank you, Edward]
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Warne Denies Using Botox, Scholes Has “Red-Mist Moment”, And Arsenal Hate Life
18 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The plethora of professional sporting activities that took place this past weekend produced tension and terror usually reserved for really good thriller movies. All sorts of emotions would have been felt around the world, but I think we’ll all have a laugh at how Warnie should be having a walk-off with Derek Zoolander.
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