Showing posts with label football. Show all posts
Showing posts with label football. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The World Service

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The BBC World Service is 80 years old today (Given that it's February 29th, that means it's only had 20 actual birthdays, I presume...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Picking a team

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At this time every 4 years I like to hunker down and gorge myself on as much football as possible. I've never exactly been a fan of Engl...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

My International Football Career

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I am, to put it mildly, not one of the world's greatest footballers. As a child I would be one of the last people picked in playground m...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

Bobby Robson

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When I was an English teacher in Porto (many years ago), me and another English teaching friend rang up FC Porto and asked if we could bring...
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Friday, June 12, 2009

Dan the Man

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(note: Football post follows. Just so you know) Yesterday was a day I'd rather forget for rather painful/uncomfortable reasons. I won...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

Sign of the Times

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Setting: The playground in the local park. A 10-year old boy has just heard me speaking English to my daughter and has bravely approached m...
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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Transylvania Cliche Watch (3) (and final)

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Very poor showing from the headline writers after last night's game. Obviously coming up with something for a 0-0 game is too difficult...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Transylvania Cliche Watch (2)

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This is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel (or, I suppose, biting the neck of a giraffe), but as the game approaches, the media has struck...
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Monday, September 29, 2008

Transylvania Cliche Watch (1)

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This week sees the visit of Chelsea FC to Transylvania to take on CFR Cluj in the Champions League (Chelsea aren't actually champions, b...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

The Curious Case of (The Football Team From) Timisioara

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Over the last few years a very strange story has been played out as regards the main football team in Timisoara. I'd give you their nam...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Roman Conquest

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Blimey. Well that was, errm, unexpected. I've never seen CFR Cluj play that well, not even last season when they won everything. Roma...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Grandstand

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Time for a short Transylvanian sporting update. Starting, obviously, with Ice Hockey, since that's what Csikszereda lives, breathes, and...
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Monday, May 05, 2008

Sporting update

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A couple of pieces of sporting news to report today. Most relevant to Csikszereda is the news that Steaua Bucharest ice hockey team (not to...
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Monday, March 10, 2008

A different perspective on CFR

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Actually this has nothing to with my previous post on CFR . Every now and again I feel compelled by some strange force of habit/cultural u...
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Friday, November 17, 2006

Most famous Hungarian dies

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RIP Puskás Ferenc. To most non-Hungarians I know, Puskás was almost synonymous with the nation, and for most outsiders (from footballing n...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Star Wars

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On Sunday night Real Madrid arrived at Otopeni airport. This event was trumpeted like they were ...well, I was going to say royalty, but if...
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Sunday, June 18, 2006

World Cup Fever

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The first ever blog I did, before I even knew there was such a thing as a blog, or even that such a word existed (and in truth, it may not h...
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Friday, April 28, 2006

Nasal Octopus

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This has been a bad couple of weeks healthwise. Bogi came down with mumps (conveniently "mumpsz" in Hungarian) while I was away. ...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Football Fever

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Football fever is gripping the nation. This is because both Rapid (hooray) and Steaua (boo, hiss) have reached the quarter finals of the UE...
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Monday, December 05, 2005

Football article

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Well, it's an exciting time for me, as I've just had an article published in When Saturday Comes , the only good football magazine i...