https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/ From our reporters in Germany en Copyright 2008 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:33:54 +0100 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://news.bbc.co.uk/sol/shared/img/sport_120x60.gif http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport/default.stm LONDON - Thanks to everyone who contributed to this blog, which is one of a number being trialled across the BBC. Comments on this blog are now closed. But look out for other BBC Sport blogs - including our on-going... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/this_blog_is_now_closed.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/this_blog_is_now_closed.html BlogEditor Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:33:54 +0100 LONDON - Here I sit in my flat, surrounded by dirty washing, cut-price World Cup tat and a huge joint of cured ham that I bought in France on Monday. When I woke up this morning Ricco was nowhere... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/over_and_out.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/over_and_out.html PaulFletcher Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:14:40 +0100 LONDON - The World Cup, all 64 games of it, has been and gone and everyone has had their say. Including you. We wanted a new way of rating players' performances, so we asked you to do the punditry. And... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/revealed_your_player_team_of_t.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/revealed_your_player_team_of_t.html BlogEditor Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:26:22 +0100 THE ENGLISH CHANNEL – Our ferry will shortly dock at Dover and our blog adventure will come to an end. It’s quite hard to look back over the last few weeks as it seemed to whip by so quickly, the... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/homeward_bound.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/homeward_bound.html MartinRichardson Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:58:46 +0100 BELGIUM - It seems strange to no longer be in Germany. It feels strange to write that sentence. I guess my moment of realisation that the party was actually over came when the fireworks exploded over the Olympic Stadium... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/svan_heading_home.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/svan_heading_home.html PaulFletcher Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:05:16 +0100 LONDON - I asked one of the journalists who has been working on the football desk during the World Cup and who normally runs our games section, how he felt about the end of the sport's showpiece... Got any suggestions... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/what_on_earth_do_we_do_now_1.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/what_on_earth_do_we_do_now_1.html BlogEditor Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:21:37 +0100 COLOGNE - This is it then, our final night in Germany spent having a great meal by the banks of the Rhine in a southern suburb of Cologne with one of our many new found friends, actor Joachim Krol. And,... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/last_stop_cologne_1.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/last_stop_cologne_1.html MartinRichardson Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:19:53 +0100 IBC, MUNICH – So after 31 days, 64 games, 147 goals (2002 = 161), 28 red cards, 305 yellows and four penalty shoot-outs, another World Cup is over. It’s been a long tournament for the Match of the Day team... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/world_cup_memories.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/world_cup_memories.html PaulAtherton Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:51:39 +0100 COLOGNE - The World Cup is over for another four years and Ricco and I are heading home. We have just arrived in Cologne, where we will spend our final night in Germany, after a six-hour drive from Berlin.... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/thank_you_germany.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/thank_you_germany.html PaulFletcher Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:26:33 +0100 BERLIN - Marco Materazzi’s career has always had an element of car crash chaos – even during his brief spell at Everton. And never has it been more evident than in his pivotal contribution to Italy’s World Cup final win... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/everton_flop_marco_makes_his_m_1.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/everton_flop_marco_makes_his_m_1.html PhilMcNulty Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:13:01 +0100 BERLIN – Fletch and I worked out at that we are two of less than a million people on this planet to see to the current World Cup trophy lifted in person. Obviously Fletch was comfortably seated in his press... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/who_needs_tickets_1.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/who_needs_tickets_1.html MartinRichardson Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:36:26 +0100 BERLIN - So that’s it then – a World Cup carnival that has taken me from Baden-Baden to Berlin via Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Cologne, Stuttgart, Gelsenkirchen, Munich and other stops too numerous to mention in five eventful weeks is over. The... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/heres_my_world_cup_how_was_you.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/heres_my_world_cup_how_was_you.html PhilMcNulty Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:26:59 +0100 BERLIN - The French fans buried their faces in their hands as they saw Zinedine Zidane dispatched from the World Cup final, knowing it may have cost them victory. None could explain his "idiotic act", but at the same... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/french_stunned_by_zidane.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/french_stunned_by_zidane.html SamWilson Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:37:32 +0100 BERLIN - What did you think of the World Cup final? I thought it was a really enjoyable game in which the momentum changed sides several times and contained no little drama - Zinedine Zidane's red card, his early... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/a_fitting_final_for_the_world_1.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/a_fitting_final_for_the_world_1.html PaulFletcher Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:34:18 +0100 BERLIN – I was going to call this pre-final blog “Some people are on the pitch” in homage to Kenneth Wolstenholme’s immortal commentary. In the end, I shied away from any reference to anything to do with England, for fear... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/noone_knows_anything.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/worldcup/2006/07/noone_knows_anything.html PaulArmstrong Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:53:45 +0100