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Posted by Kyle A. Zeeman on Saturday, July 21, 2012,
In :
Football
English football giants, Manchester United closed their two match
tour of South Africa with a 1-1 draw with Ajax Cape Town at the Cape Town
Stadium on Saturday.
Manchester United, recently voted by Forbes as the most valuable sports brand in the world, played
matches in Durban and Cape Town as part of their 6 match, 4 countries, world tour
which will see them play in China, Sweden and Germany in the coming weeks.
When asked about his impressions of his team’s tour of South
Africa, Manche... Continue reading ...
Posted by Kyle A. Zeeman on Monday, July 9, 2012,
In :
Tennis
The final weekend of Wimbledon saw some of the best and most
dramatic moments in recent history as both the men’s and woman’s finals were
played out on Centre Court.
Roger Federer won his record tying seventh Wimbledon title,
and with it reclaimed his World number one ranking, with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 win
over Britain’s Andy Murray on Sunday. Murray who was playing in front of a home
crowd was seeking to become the first Briton since 1936 to win at the All
England Club but had no a... Continue reading ...
Posted by Kyle A. Zeeman on Saturday, July 7, 2012,
In :
Racing
In
one of the closest finishes in recent history, Pomodoro edged out 100-1 outsider
Smanjemanje to win the Vodacom Durban July at Greyville Racecourse on Saturday.
3
year old Pomodoro, itself a relative outsider at 28-1, placed itself well at the
start of the race with Vettel, Beach Beauty and favourite Jackson all leading
the pack. Once the race entered the home stretch Pomodoro pushed up past the
leaders, while Smanjemanje gave a strong run on the outside. The two matched
each other stri... Continue reading ...
Posted by Kyle A. Zeeman on Monday, July 2, 2012,
In :
Football
Spain became the first football team in history to win three
consecutive major international tournaments, when they beat Italy 4-0 in the
Euro 2012 final on Sunday night.
“We’re talking about a great generation of footballers … this
is a great era for Spanish football” said Spain coach, Vicente del Bosque,
after a victory which saw them add to their Euro 2008 and World Cup 2010
triumphs.
Stung by criticism throughout their Euro 2012 campaign that
their football was boring and neg... Continue reading ...
Posted by Kyle A. Zeeman on Thursday, June 28, 2012,
In :
Tennis
Wimbledon is unique like no other tennis tournament in the world. It brings with it not only a tennis tournament but a culture dating back decades, a culture where spectators and participants are expected to follow formal rules and practices of behaviour.
In our final look at Wimbledon we look at the manners and ways to speak while others play the cultured game of tennis. How to speak and act: Official etiquette of Wimbledon, dictates that players be addressed by a prefix title of Mr or Mrs an... Continue reading ...
Posted by Kyle A. Zeeman on Tuesday, June 26, 2012,
In :
Tennis
To celebrate the second day of Wimbledon, we give you part
two of our guide to knowing Wimbledon. Today we look at what clothes to wear
because you shouldn’t leave home without it
What to wear:
Wimbledon is by far
the most formal of tennis tournaments. Participants are expected to abide by a
strict dress code of white, or almost all white, uniform. Although a little
colour accent, particularly green, is allowed. Farmer Shorts, two tone T-shirts
and crocs are not encouraged. 
Spectators... Continue reading ...
Posted by Kyle A. Zeeman on Monday, June 25, 2012,
In :
Tennis
The world’s oldest tennis tournament kicks off today at the All England Club in London. In the 2 weeks to follow the tennis world will wait with baited breath to see who will be the newest name on the silver trophies of Wimbledon. Throughout its 135 year history, Wimbledon has given tennis some of its finest hours of surprise, intrigue and upset and this year promises to serve up more of the same. Here’s our guide on what to know, how to dress and how to speak.
Today, in part 1, we explor... Continue reading ...
Posted by Yanga Sibembe on Friday, June 8, 2012,
In :
Football
The UEFA European Football Championships (Euro) 2012 kick off in Poland and Ukraine this weekend. An occasion football fans, worldwide, have been waiting for since the end of the club seasons. The month long tournament will be screened to a global audience of over 6.6 billion viewers; in more than 231 Countries but if you don't know your off-side rule from your shin pads you might have a problem keeping up. So to help you keep your conversation alive and well informed, here is our guide to t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Kyle A. Zeeman on Friday, May 25, 2012,
In :
Football
 On the outside, Montpellier triumph in winning France's ligue 1 may
fade into irrelevance in a world of European football and the big money
leagues of England and Spain, but to the football world the little side from southern
france's victory over Auxerre ,to win the french title from the
challenge of PSG, represents a resistance to the way football is going, a
spit in the face of the billionaires ruling football.
Billionaire owner's involvement in football may not be a new thing in fo... Continue reading ...
Posted by Nokuthula Seditsha on Wednesday, May 23, 2012,
In :
Football
Update:
Following his refusal to join the national team for World Cup Qualifiers,
Moeneeb Josephs has stated that he has retired from the national team to allow
him to spend more time with his family.
While
other Bafana Bafana players are at camp for the World Cup Qualifier's,
Orlando Pirates goalkeeper, Moeneeb Josephs was seen on Tuesday with his
Pirates teammates parading the streets of Johannesburg in celebration
of their recent league championship.
According
to reports, Josephs has... Continue reading ...
Posted by Kyle A. Zeeman on Saturday, May 19, 2012,
In :
Football
Hero turned Villian turned hero, Didier Drogba, scored the
winning penalty to hand Chelsea the Champions League title on Penalties against
Bayern Munich at the Allianz Stadium in Munich on Saturday night.
Bayern Munich did everything right in the penalty shootout
until both Olic and Bastian Schweinstiger missed their penalties to hand Ivorian
International Didier Drogba the chance to write his name in Chelsea folklore,
after scoring a goal and conceding a penalty within moments of each othe... Continue reading ...
Posted by Kyle A. Zeeman on Saturday, May 19, 2012,
In :
Football
Benni McCarthy scored two goals in the second half against
Golden Arrows, to hand Orlando Pirates the 2011/2012 ABSA Premiership title.
 Pirates opened the scoring with a goal in the 26th
minute through Captain Lucky Lekgwathi, before Arrows scored two goals in two
minutes to go before Sagweni scored five minutes before half time to go into
the break 2-2. Pirates responded shortly after the restart with a headed goal
from McCarthy after good positioning from the long throw.
McCarthy who sp... Continue reading ...
Posted by Kyle A. Zeeman on Wednesday, May 16, 2012,
In :
Football
Recently appointed England football manager, Roy Hodgson, on Wednesday
named John Ruddy and Roy Carroll in his youthful 23 man squad for the European championship
later this month.
Hodgson, who was conducting his first squad announcement since replacing
Fabio Capello last month, announced a squad filled with youthful stars. His
focus yielding the inclusion of young stars such as Phil Jones, Alex Oxlade- Chamberlaine,
Danny Welbeck and Theo Walcott.
The Surprise inclusion of Andy Carroll... Continue reading ...
Posted by Kyle A. Zeeman on Sunday, May 13, 2012,
In :
Football
A late goal by Sergio Aguero deep into extra time ensured that Manchester City won their first English league title in 44 years on Sunday.
The goal scored in the fourth minute of extra time ensured that City won the title from their neighbours, and defending champions Manchester United, on superior goal difference.
Going into the final game of the season both Manchester teams were equal on points, with City ahead on goal difference, United visiting mid-table Sunderland and City hosting releg... Continue reading ...
Posted by Kyle A. Zeeman on Friday, April 6, 2012,
In :
Football
I recently discovered an ebook which tells a gripping account of the man. The legend. THE Duncan Edwards. Here’s an excerpt from Best XI Manchester United along with selected comments: "LESS THAN FOUR months before his life was tragically cut short, Duncan Edwards played one of his last internationals for England against Wales at Ninian Park in Cardiff.On that day in November 1957, the Welsh manager was Edwards’ mentor and Manchester United’s assistant manager Jimmy Murphy. Before the... Continue reading ...
Posted by NOKUTHULA SEDITSHA on Monday, March 19, 2012,
In :
Football
Football fans from across the nation
came out in numbers to witness two Soweto giants going head to head for the
Absa Premiership Soccer League at FNB stadium this past Saturday. Tension, excitement
and thrill was in the atmosphere as Orlando Pirates, following its 3-0 catastrophe
against Santos just days earlier, Beat their rivals Kaizer Chiefs 3-2 in the popular Soweto derby 
Unlike most PSL football games played
in recent weeks; this match was exciting, breathtaking and the result somewh... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinkerZee on Monday, November 28, 2011,
In :
Football
The Carling Cup, or League Cup, has been called many things:
a waste of fixture space, a poor man’s trophy and even a playground for the
young ones to have a kick around on, but all of that is set to change this
Tuesday and Wednesday evening when 4 of English footballs heavy weights battle
each other for a place in the League Cup semi-finals. It may not be a European
night at the Nou Camp but we here at GEM can’t wait for the action to start.
Below we review the big matches of the draw, t... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinkerZee on Sunday, November 20, 2011,
In :
Football
FIFA president Sepp Blatter revealed that before the
month is through there may be a change to the FIFA executive , this after one
of the members is said to be in a decade long corruption scandal.
“It does look like some people won’t
be able to stay on the executive committee,” Blatter told a German newspaper in
an interview published on Sunday. In what is seen as the clearest message of
intent by FIFA that disciplinary action may be taken against executive member
Ricardo Texeira... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinkerZee on Monday, October 24, 2011,
In :
Football
source: guardian.co.uk
The weekend demonstrates everything right, and wrong, with supporting sport. In a matter of a few hours your weekend, and much of the coming week, is made. It starts as early as Monday morning with the build up and anticipation of the coming weekends "big match" and culminates in a weekend filled with superstition and expectation.
This past weekend was no exception with the rugby World Cup coming to an exciting climax and the football world watching the Mancheste... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinkerZee on Friday, October 21, 2011,
In :
Rugby
source: otbproductions.co.za
The Golden Lions, Johannesburg’s provincial rugby franchise, have turned down a lucrative offer from Stadium Management South Africa (SMSA) to host the franchises entire Currie Cup and super rugby matches at their Soccer City complex. The decision comes in the wake of lengthy discussions between the two parties over a possible move that could see both increased revenue for the Lions and increased usability for the FIFA world cup Final venue.
"Coca Cola Par... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinkerZee on Tuesday, October 11, 2011,
In :
Rugby
It was suppose to be so different. It started out as a weekend to savour with Bafana Bafana needing to win against lowly Sierra Leone and the Springboks taking on a wobbly Australian side coming off a recent defeat by Ireland, but it ended like a nightmare and in the aftermath it’s been blamed on two people.
Bafana Bafana were favourites to beat a lowly Sierra Leone side in Rustenburg, especially after goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune claimed South Africa was untouchable at home, but made... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinker on Thursday, September 29, 2011,
Mmmm what does one do during the world cup when South Africa isn't playing? You go watch the UJ rugby team play ofcourse. You will find the UJ rugby team playing against other varsities at the UJ stadium. The dates of the games are every week on a saturday day, friday night and wednesday night. The first rugby team plays on the top field, while the second team plays on the bottom field. What could be better than watching a rugby game and braaing? Well. . . watching two live rugby games and br... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinkerZee on Monday, September 26, 2011,
After the celebrations of National heritage day last week saturday. we here at GEM decided to highlight the national sports of South Africa and after hours of consulatation decided on the sport of Juskei.
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Jukskei is a traditional Afrikaans sport involving 2 Batons or skei's (not much unlike a pin in 10 pin bowling) and a peg sticking out the ground on either side of a 11 or 16 meter sand pit. Two teams of 4 members take turns throwing their skei's in hope of hittting the peg. If a p... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinkerZee on Monday, September 19, 2011,
In :
Handball
this could refer to a number of teams: Barcelona's 8-0 drubbing of Osasuna, Uniteds destruction of Chelsea, Sebastian Vettal in F1 or even Orlando Pirates cup record but instead we chose to focus on .... salford surge Handball team.
Yes handball is a sport and a very good one at that, it's played in the olympics and has a massive following in europe. The Salford surges are the Barca of Hand ball. Hailing from northern england, the Surge have gone unbeaten thus far this season and top the No... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinkerZee on Monday, September 12, 2011,
In :
Rugby
 source:iuhuru.com
Defending World Cup champions South Africa kicked off their latest World Cup Campaign with a narrow but necessary victory over Wales yesterday in Wellington to add furtehr sparkle to a so far glittering World Cup. The Springboks (as the South African rugby team is affectionately known as) were made to work hard for a opening World Cup victory and were pegged back constantly by a hardfought welsh team comin...
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Posted by forward thinker on Sunday, September 4, 2011,
In :
Football
the Rise and fall of Arsenal under Arsene Wenger.
 
It all started in hope and then joy and
then on Sunday: pain like never before. Arsenal have in the last decade and a
half gone through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows and all of it has
been under the helm of the Frenchman Arsene Wenger. Wenger Joined Arsenal in
19996 as a replacement for Bruce Rioch. The Frenchman has just ended a short
stint at Japanese club Nagova Grampus eight where he was voted the leagues best
manager. The... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinkerZee on Monday, August 29, 2011,
In :
Football
What has already been a difficult month for London yesterday became a nightmare. Not only have london residences and buisnesses been mugged by rioters recently but now their beloved Footballl teams have been mugged on the pitch. an the culprit?: Those pesky lads from Manchester. Manchester City started first by trouncing Tottenham in the "game of pretenders" 5-1 with Edin Dzeko bagging 4 of the goals and Nasri grabbing the headlines on his Debut. It was always gonna be a hard act to follow fo...
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Posted by forward thinkerZee on Thursday, August 25, 2011,
In :
Football
The draw for the Champions League Group stage was made today
in Monaco and it threw out quite a few mouth-watering surprises. The 32 Teams
involved in today’s draw were seeded and placed in one of 4 Pots ,according to
UEFA Co-efficiency ratings, these pots emptied one by one would fill the four
places in each of the 8 available groups. The announcement was long awaited by
the International Footballing community and did not disappoint. Some of the clashes
include a rematch between Real Mad... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinkerZee on Tuesday, August 23, 2011,
In :
Rugby
Pieter DeVilliers tonight named his squad for the World Cup to
be held in New Zealand in just over 17 days time. The squad held no real surprises,
except for the exclusion of Lwazi Mvovo in favour of Odwa Ndungani, with 18 members
of the squad veterans from the last World Cup winning campaign. As expected Pat
Lambie made the cut, as did Morne Steyn,
after injury scare experienced in the immediate aftermath of Saturday’s victory
over New Zealand. It was also announced that John Smit will... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinkerZee on Monday, August 22, 2011,
In :
Football
 
one of the funniest and most interesting thing to do when the new Football season comes along is to predict and monitor the sides who will go unbeaten for the longest. Last season in the EPL it was Manchester United and this season it promises to be just as juicy. With all teams having to play 38 Matches in the EPL and 30 in the local PSL, it becomes a hard task for anyside to remain unbeaten but its fun to see how far your favourite team is doing.Coming into this weekends second round of ...
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Posted by forward thinkerZee on Monday, August 15, 2011,
In :
Rugby
The Springboks made it 8 loses out of in their last 9 tri-nations tests but did a lot better than the last few weeks as they went down to a determined and better travelling Australia. It was a tight marginof defeat but one that leaves many questions for Peter De Villiers to ponder ahead of next weeks clash against New Zealand. For one it will be intresting to see if he includes the young but talented Pat Lambie and whether he will stick with an aging formula in one of the last matches b...
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Posted by forward thinkerZee on Monday, August 15, 2011,
In :
Football
In England, Chelsea, arsenal and Liverpool endure dreary draws to their title chase in their opening weekend matches of the English Premier League; meanwhile champions Manchester United signalled their intent to retain the Premier League title with a hard fought 2-1 victory over West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorn Stadium yesterday. United controlled much of the game with dazzling skill but after a conceding against the run of play and losing a number of defenders through injury they ma... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinkerZee on Friday, August 12, 2011,
In :
Football
The English Premier League (EPL)start this weekend and fans all around the world are anxiously crunching calculators to predict which player will end this season as Golden Boot winner. The Golden Boot is given at the end of every Football League season to the player who has scored the most goals accumulated over the course of the 10 months that the league program runs.
Here at GEM we decided to do some predicting of our as to who will hold taht distinguished title come May next year
Last year...
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Posted by forward thinkerzee on Tuesday, August 9, 2011,
In :
Football
Orlando Pirates V Sundowns Kaiser Chiefs V Ajax Cape Town 1st leg will be playedOrlando Stadium,Soweto
Chiefs designated Stadium (TBC) on the weekend of 20/21 August
2nd leg will be played
Sundowns designated Stadium (TBC)
Green point Stadium, Cape Town on the weekend of 27/28 August
what's your thoughts on the draw?, Are you relieved we don't have another "soweto derby"?, Who do you think will win the Top 8?Leave your comments below. ... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinker Zee on Tuesday, August 2, 2011,
In :
Football
.jpg) Jurgen klinsmen
has been named the new coach of the United States National Soccer team, and has already,
in modest fashion, talked of reforms needed in the U.S Soccer Program, Chief
among them in the development at Grass roots. “I can’t promise anything,”
Klinsmann told
reporters at the news conference on Monday. “There are a lot of difficult challenges ahead.”
“I’ve studied the US the
last 13 years, and it’s going to be quite a challenge, He added, There are a lot of opinion... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinker ZE on Tuesday, August 2, 2011,
In :
Football
The Fifa World Cup 2014 Prelimenary draw took place this last weekend in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil. the draw, led by FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke and assisted by a number of past and future brazilian football stars, was a sneak peek of what the world can expect when they start arriving for FIFA's showpiece event in just under 3 years time but despite the festivities it was the World Cup draw that grabbed the headlines and it didn't disappoint with at least 1 or 2 mouth watering... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinker on Saturday, July 23, 2011,
In :
Football
Tottenham Hotspurs arrived just under 2 weeks ago and it’s been a flurry of events since. After 9 days later and 4 exciting matches the Vodacom challenge has come to an end.
The arrival of Tottenham had many local soccer fans licking their lips. The idea of their favourite team taking on the mighty champions league quarter finalists was a sweet one to savour and so it was with little surprise that tickets were being sold in large quantities despite prices being over 10 times the normal cos... Continue reading ...
Posted by forward thinker Ze on Saturday, July 23, 2011,
In :
Football
Once the most free spending football club in the English premier league, now Chelsea’s transfer season has been the most quite in recent memory. Since unveiling their new coach Andre Villas- Boas 2 month ago Chelsea fans have experienced only 1 minor new signing and no significant departures.
So we here as GEM decided to do some scouting of our own and bring you 3 signings Chelsea should make before it’s too late and 3 players its best to just let go.
Give that man a contract.
... Continue reading ...
Posted by zeeman on Saturday, March 19, 2011,
its a bird. its a plane. no its a cricket ball Continue reading ...
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