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    Our finest football hour? - by frog



    FIFA’s two-minute highlights package of our World Cup match with Italy last night makes us look like giants. There we are on the world’s biggest sporting stage, scoring effortlessly and early, then defending our goal like heroes from an old war movie. Holding the current world champions of football to a 1-1 draw over 94 [...] read more
    June 21, 2010 4:16 pm - 10 Comments
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    Where are the green teams? - by frog



    The red team and the blue team, both funded by massive doses of corporate money, are battling it out in Moscow at the moment for the UEFA Champions League Cup (currently 1-1 after 88 minutes, with goals by Ronaldo and Lampard).  It’s hard to imagine many of the players these days are in the game [...] read more
    May 22, 2008 8:33 am - 9 Comments
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    Melchester Rovers – playing and trading fair - by frog



    Dunedin football team, the Melchester Rovers is the first team on this side of the world to exclusively use fair trade footballs for training and match play. Dave Peck, the promoter of fair trade sports balls and a Green Party member, plays in goal for Melchester and was interested to discover that fair trade balls [...] read more
    December 14, 2007 8:49 am - 9 Comments