2010 World Cup Images

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Dutch football player Dolf van Kol encouraging the Dutch National team by blowing a horn.
Vuvuzealas from the past...Dutch supporters.....blame the Dutch.




Imagine how skillful you would need to be to play in those boots ?

[Brewie]

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Could this World Cup be a fairytale ending for Maradona?

[Green_Manalishi]

God the internet was slow back then!

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Celebrating the first goal of the 2010 World Cup Finals.

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It's not that easy being Green !

[Barney Rubble]

Could this World Cup be a fairytale ending for Maradona?

on;t if a bolt of lightning strikes this cheating MF down

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Could this World Cup be a fairytale ending for Maradona?

on;t if a bolt of lightning strikes this cheating MF down

PS - note the Coke in the foreground !

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while outside our game this morning, this had to happen.......


ARMED riot police charged into hundreds of stewards at a World Cup stadium in the early hours this morning to break up a protest about low wages.
Police appeared to set off two percussive grenades, causing loud bangs, to drive the protesters out of a parking lot under the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban hours after Germany beat Australia 4-0 in Group D.
There was no immediate word of any injuries or arrests at the protest.

Associated Press reporters saw about 30 riot police charge into the crowd to drive it out of the stadium. While calm quickly returned to the stadium, some of the security stewards, wearing orange and green jackets, continued milling around outside.

An AP photographer said police fired tear gas at protesters outside the stadium. A nearby street was littered with trash where the protesters were forced away.


Police were called to the scene after hundreds of angry stewards gathered to complain about their wages.

"We left our homes at seven in the morning and now it is nearly 1 o'clock," said Vincent Mkize. "In the dry run, they didn't want to tell us how much we would get."

Another of the stewards, Fanak Falakhebuengu, said he had heard they would be paid 1500 rand ($229) a day but were only getting 190 rand ($29).

"They were supposed to give us 1500, that's what FIFA told us and they gave us 190. We are working from 12 o'clock until now," said another man who asked not to be named. He ran from police before he could give his name.

FIFA did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment. The police command set up in Johannesburg for World Cup-related matters had not received an official report.

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[seanason]

while outside our game this morning, this had to happen.......


ARMED riot police charged into hundreds of stewards at a World Cup stadium in the early hours this morning to break up a protest about low wages.
Police appeared to set off two percussive grenades, causing loud bangs, to drive the protesters out of a parking lot under the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban hours after Germany beat Australia 4-0 in Group D.
There was no immediate word of any injuries or arrests at the protest.

Associated Press reporters saw about 30 riot police charge into the crowd to drive it out of the stadium. While calm quickly returned to the stadium, some of the security stewards, wearing orange and green jackets, continued milling around outside.

An AP photographer said police fired tear gas at protesters outside the stadium. A nearby street was littered with trash where the protesters were forced away.


Police were called to the scene after hundreds of angry stewards gathered to complain about their wages.

"We left our homes at seven in the morning and now it is nearly 1 o'clock," said Vincent Mkize. "In the dry run, they didn't want to tell us how much we would get."

Another of the stewards, Fanak Falakhebuengu, said he had heard they would be paid 1500 rand ($229) a day but were only getting 190 rand ($29).

"They were supposed to give us 1500, that's what FIFA told us and they gave us 190. We are working from 12 o'clock until now," said another man who asked not to be named. He ran from police before he could give his name.

FIFA did not immediately respond to calls seeking comment. The police command set up in Johannesburg for World Cup-related matters had not received an official report.

Conspiracy! FIFA are giving the World Cup to poorer countries so that they can rort millions of dollars by underpaying the workers!

Also, Maradona to die before the next World Cup of a drug overdose. England fans to call it justice.

[Loppermann]

gang rape: appropriate in Greece

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Swannee have you got the collectors World Cup photos, the one where an England player passes to his teamate and he controls it first time?