AUDIO Soccer Podcast #9: World Cup 2010 reviewed - vuvuzelas, strange balls and glorious goals

AUDIO Soccer Podcast #9: World Cup 2010 reviewed - vuvuzelas, strange balls and glorious goals


For this review of World Cup 2010 Rob Murphy is joined by Daniel Carey, Michael Duffy and, fresh from his trip to the South Africa, Rowan Gallagher.




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They discuss a nasty final where Spain, the tournament’s best team, overcame a cynical Holland in Soccer City, Johannesburg, and ask whether this performance was worthy of Dutch football.

The team pick their best and worst moments and wonder what the lasting memories of World Cup 2010 will be. These range from the vuvuzela, a craze which seems to be seeping into the Mayo soccer scene, to the wonderful performance of Uruguay’s Diego ForlΡn, to the oddity of France going on ‘strike’ after Nicolas Anelka was sent home in a dispute with coach Raymond Domenech.



Rowan Gallagher gives us an insight into his trip to South Africa where he witnessed the quarter final between Holland and Brazil.

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