Germany 1-0 Argentina (AET) After contesting both the 1986 and 1990 World Cup final, familiar foes Germany and Argentina met again in their third World Cup final. La Albiceleste won the first encounter […]
World Cup 2014: Semi-Final Round-Up—Brazil Butchered by the Brutal Germans and Messi’s Dream is Kept Alive after Penalties
Brazil 1-7 Germany For over 60 years, Brazil has been tormented by the memory of El Fantasma (The Ghost). It was at the Maracana in the 1950 World Cup Final when Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguay’s […]
World Cup 2014: Quarter-Final Round-Up—Brazil Progress but Lose Neymar as Germany Sets a New Record
The feverish excitement surrounding the group stages and last-16 led to arduous claims that 2014 was well on its way to becoming the ‘best-ever’ World Cup. So, in response to the overly used ‘best-ever’ […]
World Cup 2014: Extra-time Drama as Argentina and Belgium Both Scrape Through to the Quarter-Finals
It was a night for history. A first for the up-coming quarter-finals and a first for a goalkeeper. Five of the eight second-round matches went into extra-time. Already more than the entire […]
World Cup 2014: The Germans Book a Quarter-final date with Les Bleus
France 2-0 Nigeria Late strikes from Paul Pogba and a Joseph Yobo own-goal were enough to take Les Bleus into the World Cup quarter-finals. Given the entertaining matches both teams had previously […]
World Cup 2014: Holland Leave it Late to Topple Mexico and Penalties Take Costa Rica to the Quarter-Finals
Holland 2-1 Mexico Mexican hearts were broken by Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben in Fortaleza as the Dutch left it very late to beat Mexico. #MEX Round of 16 results the last 6 […]
World Cup 2014: Last 16 Round-up—Brazil’s Prayers are Answered and James Rodriguez Announces his Arrival onto the World Stage
Brazil 1-1 Chile (Brazil win 3-2 on penalties) The first knock-out match at the 2014 World Cup took place in Belo Horizonte and went the distance with Brazil prevailing in dramatic fashion against […]
World Cup 2014: Knock-out Round Permutations
The dust has settled on the group phase and the World Cup now becomes a straight forward knock-out competition. We are now 75% of the way through the World Cup (48 matches played out of […]
World Cup 2014: A Round-Up of the Mentalists
An abundance of action, fine goals and a teeny bit of controversy has resulted in a highly entertaining World Cup thus far. Not to be confused with Simon Baker’s TV Series, this post is […]
World Cup 2014: Group H Round-Up—Belgium Make it a Clean Sweep and Algeria Dare to Dream in the Last 16
GROUP H Belgium 1-0 South Korea De Rode Duivels joined Holland, Argentina and Colombia in achieving a 100 percent winning record during the group phase. Dries Mertens came close on a couple of […]
