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Category: South America

South America…

Five things from….Colombia 2 Uruguay 0

28 Jun 201429 Jun 2014
So how do you follow that game?  Brazil v Chile was nearly three hours of pure football gold, as Partridge would have said.  Penalties are the cruelest way to settle…
South America

Football, Futbol , Futebol

22 Feb 2013
Football, Futbol , Futebol: Travels Around a few Football stadia in Buenos Aires , Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro. February 2009. By Paul Whitaker. “Two English football supporters, twelve days,…
England…

Knees up beats the Brazilian Samba beat

9 Feb 2013
The win against Brazil on Wednesday night had the country falling back into the Olympic spirit but was everyone happy?  Our resident Daggers Diary team headed up to Wembley to…
Germany…

The worst penalty of all time?

13 Jun 201015 Jun 2010
America 1994 was a turning point in world football.  By awarding tournament, the stakes were raised and it became all about the money rather than the game itself.  You only…
Argentina…

Life before the Mexican wave

7 Jun 201010 Jun 2010
To be sixteen again - who wouldn't want to go back to such innocent days when compared with the stress and strains of modern life.  Sixteen when some of the…
South America

A South American fiesta of football

4 Dec 2009
Our latest football traveler is Lee Barnett who has literally just stepped off a plane from South America where he had by the sounds of it a fantastic three week…
South America…

Football, Futbol, Futebol

8 Apr 20098 Apr 2009
Many thanks to Paul Whitaker for providing the following article.  It can be read in detail at our sister site Budget Airline Football here. "I know many football supporters (myself…

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