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Argentina Despite boasting a who’s who of attacking superstars, the threat of Maradona streaking through Buenos Aires is seen as too much of a threat to Argentine national security and the team is ordered by the government to not win. Argentina loses the final 1-0 and the world is spared. Greece The Greeks surprise everybody [...]

Didn’t know Slough, UK produced footballers.  Here is the player’s career numbers.

France Domenech is told by a fortune-teller that France winning the World Cup is written in the stars. Raymond stares at the night sky for weeks on end in an attempt to see exactly what is written, unfortunately he misses the team flight to South Africa. Laurent Blanc takes over as French boss a few [...]

With the help of ESPN Soccernet, we are running a World Cup fantasy league. Be sure to register a team in The Subs Bench league. The password is podcast. Follow the link below to sign up. http://worldfantasy.soccernet.espn.go.com/app/tippgemeinschaft.jsp

Great stuff, has anyone else saw this I missed it.

Found this in case you want to see it

Journalist before the match

It’s the 51st episode and its a tad bit short because you’ll probably bash your head in from the quality (we are just being protective of our viewers).  We do go over tomorrow’s final and discuss the upcoming World Cup.  The usual TFC talk with Henry to NYRB and Pires bashing Philly. Enjoy!

I’d be pumped up if I was English.

Last weekend Athletic Bilbao played a game against 100 local kids.  Pretty funny, and probably pretty entertaining. Check out the handicam video below. Google Translation of an article in Marca: The Athletic Club has set 5-3 to the ‘Jungle’ of children which has faced in San Mames in ‘impossible Party: Joseba Etxeberria honor’, a match [...]