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As I’m sitting in my hotel room in Port Elizabeth, having missed my early morning flight, I’m left to reflect on my experience at the Last 16 match between Uruguay and Korea Republic at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium yesterday.

Now, my lack of direction notwithstanding as I got lost a couple of times with all these forks in the road, I had two bad experiences of the match.

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So how settled is Carlos Alberto Parreira on his starting line-up for the Mexico onslaught?

I’d say right now, ahead of the game against Denmark on the weekend, that the Brazilian is very close to knowing what to do come that absolutely magical Friday on June 11.

His biggest headache is who to… Continue

We all want certain players to be dropped from the Bafana Bafana’s provisional squad, yet the reality is it is Carlos Alberto Parreira’s decision.

However, based on what’s been going down in camp, either friendlies or hints at press conferences from the Brazilian, you could ascertain who will be axed.

In the goalkeeping department Itumeleng Khune and Moeneeb Josephs pick themselves. Rowen Fernandez and Shu-Aib Walters will slug it out for the third spot, and it is unlikely the latter will be r… Continue

I should be in bed now, fast asleep and over the disappointment of watching Liverpool put in another sub-standard display at Birmingham. However, a rerun of the game started a while ago and, in some masochistic way, I have forced myself to watch it again.

Where to start? I have long since given up on this… Continue

This World Cup business really will be the death of me. I started writing this blog almost 10 days ago and am only getting to finish it now.

Anyways, as some of you know, I recently had the privilege of being flown to Spain to train with one Cristiano Rona

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