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A Conspiracy Theory: When did you notice Wimbledon?
1 year 44 weeks agoSo, this friend of mine has a theory, and telling the story will hopefully explain an uninteresting tennis picture on a football blog. Last Sunday, while enjoying a lunch together and trying to keep...
Pitch Invasion! (more pictures, please)
1 year 45 weeks agoIt was starting to all feel a little too sanitised. This, until the 4-minute mark of Germany versus Spain in Durban, when a cheerful character in a Superman t-shirt and holding a vuvuzela started...
The trouble with knowledge | Red Is Up
1 year 45 weeks agoThere's nothing wrong with ignorance because we're all ignorant on many subjects. But it's not every day that we get handed the opportunity to wear our ignorance like a banner. The joy of...
Not all defeats are equal
1 year 46 weeks agoWhat a week, as we've moved through the Group Stage and towards the Final 16. I know I'm biased but I don't think any team dropped out of the competition with quite as much style as South Africa. I'm...
Soccer City, Metrorail & National Pride | Brazil vs. Ivory Coast
1 year 47 weeks agoSomeone handed me tickets to a Confederations Cup Match in 2009, Egypt Versus Italy at Ellis Park in Johannesburg. The competition was regarded by many as South Africa's warm-up leading up to 2010. I...
Week One in review | Orange skirts, bending balls & takeout
1 year 47 weeks agoLet me start by apologising for the silence this week. We've been a little, er, distracted down here. We find ourselves a week after the opening ceremony of the Football World Cup, and trying to...
The end of the countdown to the beginning
1 year 48 weeks agoSome of the huge clocks in public places had been counting down from about 1000 days before. The countdown came to an end on Friday when the 2010 Wold Cup kicked off. Most employers with a sense of...
The Plastic Horn and why it matters
1 year 49 weeks agoI bought myself a Vuvuzela this past weekend. A blue one. It happened in a flurry of impulse expenditure while I was actually there to buy car shampoo and a birthday present. I also bought a flag and...
South Africa get behind their team
1 year 49 weeks agoIt's not clear where the initiative was birthed, but at noon today, Wednesday 9 June 2010, the nation made a noise. We all left our desks, classrooms and meetings to go and blow our Vuvuzelas. It's...
Bean There Coffee Company | Free Trade Coffee at 44 Stanley Avenue | S26 11 07.6 E28 01 06.4
3 years 3 weeks ago44 Stanley Road, Johannesburg. It’s an interesting little centre which you really need to press into in order to discover all on offer. And, unless you’re into peculiar house-wares and second-hand...
NIEMAND | THIS IS WAR | The Album Launch (A Ticket-Holder's Perspective)
3 years 50 weeks agoS26 11' 01'' E27 59' 51''. My first clue that I was at a thinking person's live music event was the buzz of ticket holders in the reception area who were chatting while nursing hot cups of coffee....
Pimp Your Workstation
1 year 50 weeks agoAnd then there are the Pimp Your Workstation competitions. Any employer who does not embrace the opportunity to encourage this shared purpose and matter of national pride has really got their head in...
A Conspiracy Theory: When did you notice Wimbledon?
1 year 44 weeks agoSo, this friend of mine has a theory, and telling the story will hopefully explain an uninteresting tennis picture on a football blog. Last Sunday, while enjoying a lunch together and trying to keep...
The landmarks, so far...
1 year 50 weeks agoApril 2009. The choice of stadium was easy. We were going to watch a game at Soccer City, the newly built 90,000-seater stadium in Soweto, the one designed like the traditional African pot. To put...
The trouble with knowledge | Red Is Up
1 year 45 weeks agoThere's nothing wrong with ignorance because we're all ignorant on many subjects. But it's not every day that we get handed the opportunity to wear our ignorance like a banner. The joy of...
UEFA Final | Chelsea FC Robbed, and I Blame Drogba
4 years 14 hours agoAny football game which goes down to a lottery suddenly stops being fun. As a supported of The Blues, the finger-pointing is already tiresome. John Terry is the obvious recipient of blame. Terry, the...
Week One in review | Orange skirts, bending balls & takeout
1 year 47 weeks agoLet me start by apologising for the silence this week. We've been a little, er, distracted down here. We find ourselves a week after the opening ceremony of the Football World Cup, and trying to...
Soccer City, Metrorail & National Pride | Brazil vs. Ivory Coast
1 year 47 weeks agoSomeone handed me tickets to a Confederations Cup Match in 2009, Egypt Versus Italy at Ellis Park in Johannesburg. The competition was regarded by many as South Africa's warm-up leading up to 2010. I...
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