Fan blogs

  • Dave's World Cup Blog IV - Henry Le Cheat and Fan Fest

    Dave’s World Cup Blog IV – Henry Le Cheat & the packed Fan Fest. Having watch Bafanna get a creditable draw we made our way across to the brand new Green Point Stadium and it is a site to behold, literally touching the water and right beside th...

    Read More »

    Fri 18/06/2010 Comments (2) Irish Dave 487 views
  • Dave's World Cup Blog III - Kick off

    Dave’s World Cup Blog III – World Cup Kick off. Ayoba! – Which means Welcome – to my third update. So the competition has finally kicked off and the level of anticipation was extraordinary – the morning news on television called it the “most...

    Read More »

    Wed 16/06/2010 Comments (1) Irish Dave 318 views
  • Dave's World Cup blogs - The allegory of the Vuvuzella

    Having been in South Africa for over a week now I can report that I have discovered the route of all the World's economic problems - the allegory of the Vuvuzella! They are the highly controversial, deafness educing, children’s toy that is cur...

    Read More »

    Mon 14/06/2010 Comments (0) Irish Dave 260 views
  • Wool's World Cup - Days 1 and 2

    Day 1 and 2 (June 8-9) Well here we are, the World Cup, and the first of hopefully several updates, albeit slightly delayed. It certainly feels good to be here, just as it was a relief to finally board my Thai Airways flight from Melbourne t...

    Read More »

    Sat 12/06/2010 Comments (0) Ayrton Woolley 262 views
  • Dave’s World Cup Blog II – Welcome to Cape Town

    How’s it, One of the funny things about being on the road and using other computers is that you inevitably end up sitting beside someone doing something weird, in an internet cafe or the computer room of your hotel. As I write this blog I ha...

    Read More »

    Fri 11/06/2010 Comments (0) Irish Dave 270 views
  • Dave's World Cup Blog I - Durban HQ

    “How’s it” to everyone from South Africa – that’s the local version of G’day. Just two days to go until the World Cup kicks off in Jo’Berg (sorry I am day or so behind in my blogging) and if the noise of the Fuvuzella’s is anything to go by its...

    Read More »

    Fri 11/06/2010 Comments (0) Irish Dave 502 views
  • The White Eagles - Serbian Team profile

    The Serbian National Team – known as the “White Eagles” – are the Socceroos 3rd and final opponents in Group D on June 23rd in Nelspruit. Historically Serbia has played in a series of World Cups, but in a number of different guises – as Yugosla...

    Read More »

    Wed 19/05/2010 Comments (0) Irish Dave 364 views
  • The perfect start to an amazing summer

    Pamps is definitely one of my top few European adventures. I rocked up to the Fanatics campsite fresh from a few days at Ibiza – the energy levels weren’t very high, eg. I was dragging my pack along the ground coz I couldn’t even lift it up. I ha...

    Read More »

    Wed 12/05/2010 Comments (0) Abby Page 182 views
  • A messy few days

    Up there with the best 4 days of my life for sure. I’d heard my friends talk about Oktoberfest 2008 and I couldn’t grasp what they were on about when they said you have a couple of beers then they all lost each other and ended up having the most r...

    Read More »

    Wed 12/05/2010 Comments (0) Abby Page 352 views
  • Those Pommy summers aren’t half bad

    When me and me mate Jezza rolled back into our London flat from the pub in the early hours of the morning, we made the split decision to head down to Wimbledon for “just one day of the tennis”. With a few beers in hand we took the tube out to Wimb...

    Read More »

    Tue 11/05/2010 Comments (0) Craig Woodrow 187 views