Category: World Cup 2006 Diary

At Italia 90’, it was the combination of Toto Schillachi’s suddenly spectacular goal-scoring abilities and Walter Zenga’s ‘none shall pass’ mentality and keeper skills, which dragged the Azzurri…

Italy V Germany  Before the tournament got underway I hadn’t allowed myself to look further than the potential Semi-Final with Argentina. How-ever since Pekerman blew his team’s chances…

England V Portugese Ponces Moment of truth…Scolari beat us 4 years ago with Brazil in the 1/4s of world cup…then 2 years later he fucked us again in the…

Germany v Argentina  Huge game for the host nation against an opponent they would have rather have avoided at least until the final. Klose, Podolski, Schweinensteiger and of…

Day 19–Ghana V Brazil  (Africa v South.America…)  Michael Essien is the main man for Ghana. Muntarro returns..  BRA:>Ronaldo and Adriano start in attack..Ronaldo has scored 14 goals in…

Round 2: (Day 18) ITALY v Australia  Gianluca Vialli represented Italy, Juventus, Chelsea, Sampdoria and other glamourous clubs as a player, and also managed Chelsea for a short…

The big One:: ENGLAND V ECUADOR England take on south American opposition with the hope of the bucking the annoying trend of the past two world cups that…

And so it begins. The group games have separated the rough from the smooth, the calm from the angry, the pathetic from the capable…It is the do or…

Tunisia v Ukraine.. The Ukrainians went mad in their last game, totally demolishing the sub-standard Saudis with a delightful display of attacking football…Shevchenko was showing signs of match…

Day fourteen  Italy v Czech Lippi has gone crazy and selected a 4-4-1-1 formation for a game which Italy may well need to win if they are to…