Category Archives: sport

Heavy Sacks

By 6000 | 6000 | August 27, 2010

Flicking through the Cape Times yesterday, I noticed a half-page ad for Cape Union Mart, the local camping, hiking and general outdoor sports suppliers. The ad in question (pictured here) detailed the wide variety of rucksacks which they sell, complete with stats on each and a brief blurb listing the features of the pack in [...]

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JD Bryce explains all

By 6000 | 6000 | July 16, 2010

And he/she explains it in a letter to the Cape Times today. Over to you, JD Bryce of St James: The tirade against Bakkies Botha compels me to defend him. Ti•rade [tahy-reyd, tahy-reyd] – noun; a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation. Ok – I’ll give you the denunciation bit – and maybe a hint of bitterness because he was an idiot. [...]

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Scapegoat

By 6000 | 6000 | July 12, 2010

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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Howard Webb – A Yorkshireman at Soccer City

By 6000 | 6000 | July 8, 2010

Many congratulations to local boy and colleague of my brother  - apparently, “you wouldn’t mess” – Howard Webb for being awarded (I believe this is the official technical term) the job of refereeing Sunday evening’s World Cup Final in Johannesburg. As the Sheffield Star (ah, the memories…) reports: The 38-year-old former police sergeant, from Rotherham, [...]

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Dear Uruguay

By 6000 | 6000 | July 7, 2010

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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