In Brazil

After the game Shame!  Embarrassment!  Humiliation!  Scandal!  Ignominy! Words such as these were bandied about on Tuesday evening.  There were tears from more than one person.  A few arguments broke out.  Some wondered out loud if they would be...

Footy and Music by agthom – CC BY-NC-2.0 Right back at the beginning of the Word Cup, and the start of my series of posts for MKB World Cup for Kids, I asked people what Brazil was famous for, with the idea that I could write some posts based...

Football Giveaway As a kid, I played football with anything: stones, empty drinks cans, rolled up socks, space-hoppers and cricket balls.  I was football crazy, so I didn’t really care how much a cricket ball would hurt my foot, I just wanted...

Blind leading the blind? When I first moved to Brazil there were many sights and sounds that were new, funny or just plain downright weird.  There were a number of times when I was left open-mouthed when I saw something for the first time, like the...

Brazil players prepare for their national anthem I don’t really do national anthems.  This might be because I see them lazy, nationalistic and usually crap tunes.  Or it might be because I am English and I reckon we have a terrible anthem...

England v Uruguay World Cup Ticket Last Wednesday I was (un)lucky enough to get a ticket at the last-minute for the England Uruguay game in the Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo for both teams’ second game of the World Cup.  I was very excited to get a...

Enough with the fireworks! For the first game of the World Cup I asked people what they thought of when they thought of Brazil.  A friend who used to live in Brazil sent me an email saying one of the things that struck him the most wasn’t the...

Worn by an Irishman in Brazil for the World Cup Who are you supporting in the World Cup?  For some, this is an easy question to answer because you support the country you come from.  If you come from the likes of Holland, Germany, Brazil, or...