The End of a Journey

Well, the D-day is here. The greatest sporting event in terms of number of people following is coming to a close today. In the month-long journey of the beautiful game and after following many expected and unexpected twists and turns we are reaching the end. In the way many hearts have been broken, many predictions have been reset, many reputations have been shattered while new ones have been made and at the end there are two teams meeting for the top...

The New Look Dutch Team

So Brazil are out! In the league stages they were looking so sure of themselves and looked so comfortable that they were being seen as clear favourites to the title. But they were stopped by another team that was very comfortable and very patient. Anyone who saw the Brazilian team in the initial stages could not have but figured out the way they were playing. Just build and build build- retain possession keep on feeding their forwards the ball and with...

Video Referral in Football

Should there be video referral in football? It is a question that is occupying the cerebral space of every football lover. And the evidence supporting the start of such a practice seems to be so many. Goals disallowed, handballs missed, yellow and red cards wrongly given missing occasions to give them, fouls missed are happening with too much frequency to be palatable. Who can forget the handball of Thierre Henry which plunged an entire nation into...