FIFAs Foul Play

15 July 2010, 1:32 pm

by Tim Parks Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP Photo Netherlands' Nigel de Jong fouls Spain's Xabi Alonso as referee Howard Webb looks on, the World Cup final, Johannesburg, July 11, 2010 For any practitioner of Zen who imagines he has achieved a state of detached equanimity, the ultimate test must be to watch his national side play at soccers World Cup. That Englands team is dull, I tell myself after ...... Read More »

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