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EPL In A Nutshell: Aston Villa vs West Ham

At the start of every season West Ham supports, like me, have a sense of optimism about the coming campaign. Sometime it takes several months for it to be beaten out of us. On rare occasions it lasts all season.
This time it lasted about 30 seconds…
Opening the 2010-2011 season against Aston Villa, it looked as …

August 14, 2010 – 3:49 pm | By BlogEditor | Posted in Sports | Tagged , , | Comments Off

2010 FIFA World Cup Retrospective: What Happened and How Did It Go Down

For the first time in a generation this was supposed to be about style and individual superstars raising their games and teams to magical levels…
…Instead we got substance. Patient, proficient substance, but substance nonetheless…
…And much of the time it was boring to watch.
This 19th rendition of FIFA’s quadrennial world football championship confirmed what the game …

July 20, 2010 – 10:13 pm | By daveydoug | Posted in Psrhea, Sports | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The World Champions: SPAIN

What Went Right?  PATIENCE! PATIENCE! PATIENCE! This was arguably the most patient side to ever lace up football boots. Spain didn’t so much come out with guns blazing and blow everybody away as much as slowly, methodically wear them down and put them to sleep. Their offensive approach was as technical and carefully calibrated as …

July 20, 2010 – 10:07 pm | By daveydoug | Posted in Psrhea, Sports | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)