Category Archives: annoying people

Scapegoat

Oh dear. Some orange people aren’t very happy. It seems that they weren’t the ones who won the World Cup last night and they think it’s the referee’s fault. I don’t agree – they were rubbish and they deserved to lose – but let’s let them have their say. Arjen Robben, for example: We sat [...]

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Dear Uruguay

Dear Uruguay, As an honourary South African, may I first apologise for the huge amount of anti-Uruguayan sentiment that has been demonstrated amongst the locals here since Luis Suarez’s last-gasp handball against Ghana. Labeling the whole team as “cheats”, ”scum” and “cheating scum” due to the instinctive actions of one player is rather foolish and unnecessary in my [...]

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Things you won’t read in The Mirror

Number 1 in a series of 1 (so far). It seems that Sunday Mirror hack Simon Wright was behind the much-publicised “Fan in the Changing Room” incident after England’s pisspoor showing against Algeria in Cape Town. This from local paper The Times (which is no paragon of virtue or accuracy either, I might add): A British [...]

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The Morning After

And so, the dream that never was anything more than a dream is now over. And while we English lick our wounds and think about what might have been, it’s only right that those readers and tweeters who have asked for my considered opinion on matters football get their manna from heaven. I’ve thought long [...]

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And then…

A couple of days ago, I had a bit of a pop at Karibu restaurant for their really terrible performance – particularly as we are trying to impress the huge number of tourists during the World Cup (aren’t we?). And then… I realised that there is more to impressing the tourists than tacky Waterfront restaurants [...]

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