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The Fixball blog reflects the opinions of a bald, loud-mouthed, middle-aged, cynical, beer-swilling, ex-pat, football fanatic Brit. The last person you want to have to listen to when your team's winning. But when your team isn't...?

Roo’d boys

Posted on June 20, 2010

Okay so Wayne had a go at the crowd at the end of the Algeria game.  So what? Quite honestly, after the appalling display the England team put up against Algeria I would have been more worried had he not … Continue reading →

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Ball fix

Posted on June 20, 2010

Bit of a co-incidence that the two best performing teams so far – Argentina and Germany (yes I know Germany lost to Serbia but even with just 10 men they were by far the better side – how Podborski didn’t … Continue reading →

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Host heading South

Posted on June 17, 2010

With a 3-0 loss to Uruguay, Wednesday, the South African Lions must play for a miracle against France in their final group stage game, if they are not to become the first host nation to fail to progress from the … Continue reading →

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Swiss bank a shocker.

Posted on June 16, 2010

Spain, one of the favourites to win the entire competition and currently one of Europe’s so-called “PIGGS” staring  economic meltdown in the face, loses, without demonstrating anything like the same desire to win it that was evident in their real … Continue reading →

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Blame Canadian

Posted on June 16, 2010

So Robert Green’s hot-ex Canadian girlfriend dumping him so close to the World Cup finals was what caused his aberration against the Americans.   For his sake I hope not. Much as I, as a recently separated man, can sympathise … Continue reading →

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Hello World Cup!

Posted on June 15, 2010

It’s not even the end of Day 5 of the 2010 World Cup and already so much injustice has been recorded – missed fouls, unfair bookings, a dodgy sending off and an offside goal –  that I can no longer … Continue reading →

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