2006

“This is what we play with. Go and get it!”
Brian Clough

An article on The Register entitled “Scientists learn to bend it like Beckham” suggests that the sight of our David skying a spot kick over the goal and into the stands may be numbered. “Scientists at Loughborough University have developed a system that will measure a football’s speed and spin, something they say has not been accomplished before”, reports Lucy Sherriff, and suggests that one outcome of this research may be a “perfect penalty-taking cyborg”. Strangely, she goes on to quote a colleague who claims that “in fact the most confusing ball to face, when standing in goal, is one that doesn’t spin at all”.

Well that clears that one up then.

FIFA have announced that tickets for the 2006 World Cup will go on sale on the 1st February 2005.

The ingenuity that people have when trying to get a game together is exemplified by these children in Burundi who turn old plastic bags into a football