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WORLD CUP…you can’t truly appreciate Robert Greens “fatal error” until you’ve seen it recreated in Lego! Check out this hilarious two minute clip, www.tinyurl.com/legofussball …
…Spain, despite losing their first game, remain 4-1 co-favourites with Brazil to win the 2010 World Cup. Argentina looks tempting at a plump 9-2…
…the Sporting News suggests Diego Maradona’s press conferences [...]

I spent Friday night reading Jonathan Ames “The Alcoholic”, the acclaimed writer’s first foray into graphic novels. Despite critical praise I found the effort very uneven, excellent at times and tediously self indulgent at others. The alcoholic tag struck me as a misnomer, with the author’s discomfort with his sexual identity providing the more pervasive [...]

Carrick.  Seriously?  Carrick? 
OMG.  He is the worst player in the squad.  He got universally slagged for his performance in the warm up games due to being utter shite.  He is fucking awful and that’s an understatement. 
I agree that Joe Cole should play and I agree that we should have Gerrard roaming behind Rooney but I [...]

WORLD CUP…if the match is enthralling, the droning whine of the vuvezela’s seems to disappear and the game can be watched in relative comfort. In a dud of a game, however, the grating presence of the incessant buzz is powerful enough to make the game unwatchable. When observing the French play, for instance, my heart gushes [...]

WORLD CUP…Canadians, fresh off the chills of the Olympic hockey tournament, can surely relate to a team embroiled in a slow start. Not that long ago, was it, when we were apoplectic after a bruising loss to the Americans?
Back then, the Meridian knew the answer, knew how to turn the team around.
I’ve decided to offer the same [...]

Irish middleweight John Duddy, currently in training for a big fight June 26th with Julio Caesar Chavez Jr, had an uncle killed in Derry, Northern Ireland, on January 30th 1972, a day that has endured in infamy as “Bloody Sunday”. The deaths of 13 civils rights protestors, at the hands of British soldiers, has been immortalized in songs such [...]

U2…is the end nigh for the world’s greatest band? Bassist Adam Clayton has made a unilateral move against Gaby Smith, the bands financial controller, suing him in the Dublin High Court for negligence. It is a shocker. The band has had many internal battles but generally managed to keep their dirty laundry out of public [...]

WORLD CUP…the tournament has featured two of the most amazing sporting moments of the year, one highly publicized and the other not, and, well, we’re only just underway.
The hypocrisy of Thierry Henry, an unvarnished degenerate, was underlined boldly during the French draw against Uruguay. You couldn’t write this in a book, could not make this [...]

PONIES…a perfectly splendid day of racing is on tap for the denizens of the Big Smoke.
The 55th running of the Canadian Oaks, a half a million dollar contest for three year old fillies, deserves top billing with an intriguing and eclectic cast.
Todd Pletcher ships in with Embur’s Song, an undefeated prodigy who will attempt to stretch [...]

ROBIN HOOD…I was hit with a double whammy of disappointment after venturing to the local cinema to watch Ridley Scott’s new opus. The place was crawling with obnoxious tykes, each anxious to see the Karate Kid remake featuring Jackie Chan. I hear some obnoxious brat wheeze to another, “Jaden Smith is Will Smith’s son…”.
NNNOOOO I [...]