Your blogs
- 20 May 06, 03:49 PM
A lot of you are already telling us about your blogs which is great and I'm enjoying reading them all.
There is some video of Theo Walcott training here, and two mad fans (an Englishman and a Scot) hosting a daily free fans podcast here .
Phil McThomas, 35 (Middlesbrough fan) and Tony Wildey, 31 (Hearts) say they have an insatiable appetite for football and conceived the idea "in the middle of a rant about the dearth of soccer podcasts".
The favourite thing I've come across is a list of World Cup rules for the fridge on a blog run by a chap called Ian living in Barcelona. It is wildly sexist - but hilarious of course. My favourite is Rule 3:
If you have to pass by in front of the TV during a game, I don't mind, as long as you do it crawling on the floor and without distracting me
Sadly I can't link to it as Ian has also included a rather cheeky photo which is against our editorial guidelines ;0(
But of you wanted to go to Blogger and type in 'worth printing off and sticking to the fridge' you'd find him.
I have found it quite hard to find decent sports blogs over the last few months (tell me if you know of any) - but the World Cup does at last seem to be inspiring a healthy crop.
I have been talking to an American called Joe Conway who is blogging at the Houston Chronicle . He's gonna give us some insight into how football (soccer, aaargh) is viewed in the US. 'Do Americans even know there's a World Cup going on?' might be an interesting place to start? No sign of it yet in the daily email I get from the New York Times though I did find this lone story on the team 'uniforms'
The USA goalkeeper Kasey Keller (ex Spurs now 'Gladbach) is writing a blog. As with most sportspeople it seems, it's not (yet) the most revealing thing you'll ever read but he does divulge that "our aim is to do better than the quarterfinals of the tournament".
There some more cool video here of a girl doing keepy-up tricks. We're running our own Keepy-up competition - the prize is tickets to England's first game plus flights and accomodation so what are you waiting for?? The deadline is 31 May.
Oh, and I also saw this competition to find for four lucky people to write a mobile blog for the World Cup, though the deadline is 24 May.
The winner will be announced here
Claire S, blog editor
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My response to Joe Conway and the Blog Editor at BBC Sports. I am one of the biggest football fans and I am looking forward to seeing the games and expressing my impressions via this blog.
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Hi, this is a briliant blog by the BBC, being able to read the views of the sports editors, and we can give our views in a systematic way!
Looking forward to the World Cup, but at the minute have the small matter of Uni exams, which will be complete on June 5th, and then can enjoy the Beeb's coverage!
My blog is here:
https://spaces.msn.com/property-of-allah
But not been updated for a while becuase of exams, but after that it wil definitely be updated!
Come on England!
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A couple of blogs from British journalists following football in Brazil that I read:
https://www.ofutebol.com/oblogdoalex.html
(by Alex Bellos, author of Futebol)
https://www.ofutebol.com/oblogdolowdinho.html
(By Mark Lowdon, freelance journalist - regular contributor to FIFAs web sites. )
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Thanks for the mention. Soccer Shout just put up a show previewing Group A, with lots of help from our listeners and other bloggers/podcaster.
The Group B preview will be up on Tuesday morning.
Come to the site to listen and subscribe!
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Thanks for the mention my hits have gone through the roof a lot of fridges are going to be covered in the rulesfor the world cup!
I am conducting a poll to see if I should remove "a rather cheeky photo which is against your editorial guidelines"
Cheers
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Ian - That photo on your site is foul!
Nice work!
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Rico
Glad you enjoyed it:)
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Can I just say thanks to the Beeb for this blog, it really helps bring together football fans from across the board, loving it :)
And my hits, well thanks!
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I am from Bangladesh, a South Asian country. No South Asian country has ever played in WOrld CUp Football but that does not mean that we are not fan of World Cup. My blog is about Asian Business but I am now not out of WOrld Cup Football fever. In the last one week, I have posted nearly 10 entries about world cup football. However, I post mainly about the business aspect.
https://asianbiz.blogspot.com/2006/05/world-cup-football-2006-coaching.html
and
https://asianbiz.blogspot.com/2006/05/thousands-of-world-cup-tickets-unsold.html
are two of entries about World Cup Football. Please pay a visit and let me know if you like it.
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My excuse will be: In Winnipeg School Division staftt are entitled to three religious holy days off per year. The World Cup is my religion, so.....
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https://germany-06.blogspot.com
My blog! Posting regularly and insightfully...
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we at xolo.tv (videoblog) are part of a World Cup project called WeAllSpeakFootball, with our headquarter in Berlin, and inviting bloggers, podcasters and vloggers to join us and collaborate...well, and party a bit :-). See ya there!
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Hi there
Could you please mention my World Cup Blog.
The address is:
https://web.mac.com/truth42/iWeb/Site/World%20Cup%20Blog/World%20Cup%20Blog.html
Thanks
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I'm really enjoying reading this, and all of the other World Cup blogs. I think blogs are a brilliant way to get many new angles on an event, and there is no bigger event that the one coming up. A lot of the content is much more fun to read than the traditional mainstream press, and for people in countries where fotball is not the number one sport, they are a lifeline.
My own is World Cup Preview, which features regular entries previewing all 32 teams.
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Walk into any sports bar in America and you're extremely unlikely to run into any soccer fans.
Thankfully. as a Brit living in America, one of the major advantages of the Internet (and blogs) is that it allows like-minded soccer fans to communicate with each other.
The BBC World Cup Blog is the perfect conduit for this.
Another blog to visit is my own, the EPL Talk Blog, which will feature World Cup news this summer with a twist -- from a Premiership perspective.
Cheers,
The Gaffer
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I grew up in Malta, live in Canada and can't wait for the world cup to get started. Feel free to read my trans-global world cup memories and thoughts at
https://aidanworldcup2006.typepad.com/
or
https://worldcup.writingup.com/
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As a Scotland fan with no-one to support at the World Cup, I have decided to support everyone (including England!). I will be (trying to) watch every World Cup side with their fans in London, starting with Costa Rica (even though there's only 100 Costa Ricans in Britain)...
Find out how I get on at www.worldcupinonecity.com
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The more blogs the better, I say, as long as there's good writing.
I'm one half of a Scunthorpe / Swansea blog over at https://www.doncaster-road-end.com : since we have no league football, we'll be turning our attention to the world cup shortly.
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Big Thanks to the BBC for once again creating a great website for fans of footballl and the World Cup.
I have a blog thats not related to the World Cup as such, but does have an 8 day series of posts of World Cup Wallpapers for the Sony Playstation Portable (PSP).
The first group can be seen here :
Group A PSP Wallpapers
The full series of wallpapers are linked in this summary page :
World Cup Wallpapers Summary
These wallpapers are a great way for PSP owners to show their support for their nation in the World Cup.
Good luck to all teams competing in Germany this year.
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Hello. Don't forget Canada! We are not in the World Cup, but there is an excellent blog being run here by a newspaper, the Globe and Mail. They have this funny bit about the best looking player, and what Canadians think about the Hargreaves flap (basically, if you don't want him, we do). Here is the link and great job!
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20060609.wwcblog/BNStory/World_Cup06/
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Check out Chris Hunt's World Cup Diary... Author and journalist Chris Hunt is travelling around Germany covering the 2006 World Cup. His book 'World Cup Stories: The History Of The FIFA World Cup' accompanies the BBC television series and is published by Interact, but you can read his daily thoughts on the 2006 tournaments at www.chrishunt.biz
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