I came into that game as an impartial viewer but that was some seriously cynical shit from the Netherlands so I was pretty happy to see Spain crowned as the eventual winner. And that wraps up the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa.  Next stop:  Brazil in 2014.

Universal appeal.

A Pianist, an African warlord and the guy from That 70s Show walk into a jungle...

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This World Cup has been an interesting ride.  There has been plenty of talking points and a lot of crap early on but then in the later stages of the tournament the good stuff started to shine through.  Germany and The Netherlands have been particularly entertaining and we all came to love Maradonna, that Paraguayian naked lady and Paul the ...

“The next Australian federal election will elect members of the 43rd Parliament of Australia and must be held on or before 16 April 2011. The election will be called following the dissolution or expiry of the current Parliament. The current Prime Minister, Julia Gillard of the Labor Party, has indicated the election will be held in 2010.” I thought it ...

Stupid psychic octopus 🙁

AUSTRALIA’S richest man Frank Lowy is suing The Age newspaper in a defamation action relating to claims about the 2022 World Cup bid. Football Federation Australia, of which Mr Lowy is chairman and Ben Buckley the chief executive, commenced proceedings against the newspaper in the Supreme Court of New South Wales today. The Age – a Fairfax newspaper based in ...

I was saddened to hear about the recent passing of the author Jose Saramago. Saramago was a Nobel prize-winning writer who was hugely popular in his home country of Portugal where it was reported that some 20,000 people attended his funeral (!) when he was buried last week.  He had a good innings, living to the ripe old age of ...

Either the World Cup Rainbow or Paul the Octopus is going to be wrong.