I hinted at this before, but now I can confirm that I will be traveling to South Africa for the World Cup. Will be watching both semi finals in Durban and Cape town, along with the final in Jo’berg. Really psyched. Should be epic. Will post some pics and stuff when am back. Cheers.
This was posted on Goal.com (Engineered by Castrol Football), pretty much the script of World Cup 2010. Obviously its a World Cup so there will be one or two surprises. Also if you notice they have predicted Germany and Italy to be knocked out in the Quarter finals. Well all I will say is that is unlikely, Italy and Germany are the two most experienced teams when it comes to progressing to the final stages of a big tournament along with Brazil. So one of them should make it further, I am thinking Germany to beat Argentina but its too unpredictable after the Round of 16.
..where he unveiled the iPhone 4. If you are as obsessed with his on-stage prowess as me then you got to have a look. He makes all the Ted Talk speakers look like a nervous wreck.
Today at WWDC, Steve jobs unveiled Apple’s new iPhone 4. Which will hit the shelves on 24th June in the US and UK. Jobs could have presented an onion as the iPhone 4 and I would have still gotten it, but the phone is actually cool.
World Cup in 5 days!! Couldn’t be more excited about it! If you aren’t on the same page as I am, then get the fuck out! Anyways if you want get in to the World Cup groove and want all the basic info, team news, schedules, etc. I will put everything relevant in this post. The opening match is on 11th June with hosts South Africa facing Mexico.
Firstly, the schedule: For the match schedule, I didn’t just get you any schedule but it is the best I could find anywhere. Here is the link and if you want to download one for your desktop wallpaper click here.
Here the basic groups:
Players to watch in every group are:
Group A: Ribery (France), Group B: Messi (Argentina), Group C: Rooney (England), Group D: Krasic (Serbia), Group E: Sneijder & Robben (who is an injury doubt) (Both from Netherlands), Group F: De Rossi (Italy), Group G: Ronaldo (Portugal) & Drogba (who is also an injury doubt) (Ivory Coast), Group H: Xavi (Spain)
For me the favorites on paper are Spain with an astounding 96% win rate under Vincent Del Bosque. But its a World Cup and on paper means nothing, and the best example of that is Italy winning it in 2006. How you managed to qualify for the World Cup is irrelevant, you could win all your matches and qualify for the World Cup like Spain and still go on to win it or barely manage to qualify like Argentina and still go on to win it. Argentina has a lot of players who have had a brilliant season for their respective clubs like Tevez, Higuain, Milito, Di Maria, Pastore and obviously Messi. Their Achilles heal will be their manager Maradona or he will be their genius, there is a thin line between madness and genius. So far he has been a mad man but can he be the genius is yet to be seen. I flinched twice when I saw he left out Zanetti and Cambiasso out of his squad but lets not judge him just yet. I am not even going to talk about England, all I will say is, “GO ROONEY!!!” For me the dark horses are the Dutch, with Van Persie, Sniejder, Van Bommel, Van Der Vaart and obviously they need a fit Robben. But they can really go far in this tournament. I would love it if Van Der Saar can return from retirement in goal, that would strengthen them a lot, but its obviously too late for wishful thinking now. How did I write a paragraph on the World Cup and not yet mention Brazil, you cannot rule out Brazil out of any World Cup. But this is a very different Brazil, under Dunga they are more a workman-like and effective team, reminiscent to the team Dunga captained to glory in 1994.
And finally if you in to fantasy FIFA have an official one going on looks interesting and a bit different from the usual ones so read the rules. CLICK.
Also I have a huge personal news regarding the World Cup, but that’s not till the later stages so see you then. Leaving you with a great World Cup advert by Nike. Watch it in HD.
Okay the first thing you will feel the minute you get your hands on it is the urge to get one. I mean although you are familiar with most of the features already, it is still pretty insane. I personally felt, I finally got my hands on something as a kid I always imagined would be available in the future. Only obvious bad point way too overpriced. I mean £450 quid for the basic 16Gb non-3G model.
All the iPhone apps really come to life on the big iPad screen. My second favourite iPhone game (after iCopter, obviously) Flight Control was always meant to be played on the iPad. Other than that, new featured apps like Mail, iTunes, Pages, Keynote, etc. absolutely blew me away. The biggest miss of all was the absence of the USB slot. I think a must need for the next update.
The iPad is definitely a luxury more then a necessity. But if you are into gadgets and with no cash restraints, I recommend you get one.
This is a great song by K’naan, also the official them song for CocaCola’s FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa advertising campaign:
Well that was a painful sequence of events. From the moment Bayern scored their winning goal in Munich and the camera immediately panned back to Rooney limping off, a bucket load of bad luck has afflicted us and our season has seemingly imploded. The ‘offside’ goal from Drogba, the gift of a goal to Bayern when we were flying at 3-0, changing the whole dynamic of the game, and the disastrous sending off have all conspired to twist the knife in ever deeper. Then, away from our matches, there was Arsenal’s last gasp winner, just when we were thinking that at least they we’re out of the title race, whilst we’ve even had Liverpool lording it up following their win against Benfica, taunting us with ‘that’s how you do it’, despite them being demoted to a competition for losers – the fact that they’re still in with a chance of winning a European trophy, regardless of its dubious value, seems grossly unfair. Oh, and City even managed a 6-1 away win, and are now looking favourites to claim 4th place, which would make them genuine threat having achieved Champions League status. The gods have certainly been against us!
Wednesday night was a shock to the system – it was felt by everyone associated with United, be it management, players or fans. This wasn’t just a defeat, something far deeper occurred. Going out to Bayern is no disgrace, and we all knew we were up against it following the loss in the first leg, but the manner in which it happened is something which really cut to the core, in a similar way to how it felt in 1992 when we fell apart in the home straight and Leeds pipped us to a championship that had eluded us for a quarter of a century, or 1995 when we failed to get the final day win at West Ham that would have seen us retain our title. When we lost in the final to Barcelona last year, at least we knew that we’d been beaten by a great team – the disappointment was more to do with the fact we’d failed to turn up, and had given a poor account of ourselves. Like Wednesday, the other examples hurt so much because we know that we should have emerged triumphant, but didn’t – this is why it was such a shock for us all.
It’s at this type of moment that a team learns the most about itself, and can hopefully take onboard these brutal lessons and grow. If they’re made of the stuff I hope they are, Wednesday night will galvanise these players, bring them closer together in adversity, and have a positive impact long term. We could still rally to win the league, which would be an incredible achievement in this rollercoaster season of downs and ups, but even if we fall short this term, the experience will serve us well in the future.
Time to brush off the bad luck and stop feeling sorry for ourselves, you make your own as they say, so we have to hand it to Bayern for their unwavering determination throughout both legs of the tie, even when it looked like they might be chasing a lost cause – a never say die trait that has been associated with our team throughout the years. They made their own luck, whilst our nervousness contributed to our own downfall, and hopefully our players will have learnt a valuable lesson from their example.
If we can fight in a similar way during our 5 remaining matches we may still conclude the season on a real high, and the nightmare of the past few games will have all been worthwhile. And then the World Cup.
If I were you I would avoid the last post. This is just going to be a picture and video post cause apparently words don’t really work for me.
I just realized I always post on Monday’s! I honestly have no clue why? Maybe because I am jobless. But its mostly because I usually have no Uni on Monday’s and hence I spend the whole day in my island that is my room and eventually I end up blogging. What the fuck were the last few sentences about?
Really sorry if you read the above post. I was high on boredom.But if you are still reading, you are probably more bored then I am. So I think I should continue just to spice up your sorry excuse for a life. Oh, now you are offended! Then why the fuck are you still reading this shit?
Man I feel bad for you. Really you are still on this page!? This just goes to prove, my life is better then yours.
