So last night there was a game of football/soccer between Manchester United [soccer is one of my least supported sports but if i have ever supported a team it has been Manchester United... and then locally Kaizer Chiefs back in the day when Dr Khumalo played and i always back Bafana!] and Real Madrid in the Champion's League. Real Madrid won 2-1 but of course there was "that red card incident" with Nani getting sent [...]
the world cup rankings have been released by FIFA and we came 20th out of 32 - not bad for a team that wouldn't have even qualified for the event if we were not hosting it - hopefully inspire us on to greater things - note the previous world champs down in 26th - go bafana! Fifa 2010 World Cup standings: 1 Spain, 2 Netherlands, 3 Germany, 4 Uruguay, 5 Argentina, 6 Brazil, 7 Ghana, [...]
Awesome SA is a site dedicated to the good news of what happens in South Africa that we seldom get to read about in the newspapers or watch in the news - they send out regular newsletters with testimonies of south africans living and loving large and helping make this nation the thing it truly can be - i encourage you to get connected 'Awesome SA is about encouraging South Africans to positively influence the [...]
so it's finally over i remember when it was announced that south africa would be hosting the soccer world cup and countdowns of four years or more and then 300 days and finally a few weeks and then it was tomorrow... we missed a large portion of the group games due to being on a namibia namrocking trip but we got to watch the opening ceremony and game in a restaurant called amazink in kayamandi [...]
five centimeters... from a huge upset and a big chance of Bafana Bafana progressing to the second round of the world cup which no white person predicted (let's be honest) - oh wait i mean expected cos i spent the whole week predicting a Bafana Bafana 2-1 win over Mexico and it was that close - just sent-to-meet-her's past the post to deny what would have been an incredible victory we decided to go watch [...]