Daily Dose 04.18

April 18th, 2006 | by: WC Bob |

Taking all of today’s World Cup stories and condensing them into an easy to digest tasty treat…

The Golden Ball is revealed. Does the winner really want to use that ugly thing for four years? (Monsters and Critics)
Beckenbauer and FIFA continue their cat fight (Reuters)
32 roses for Posh (Moldova.org)
No sex for England’s players. Brazil is definitely the favorite now (Kop Talk)
No wine for Portugal on game days (DW-World)

http://ecuador.worldcupblog.org/ Trent

There’s just something vulgar about a $14 million necklace.
wendall

The gold ball does not look nearly as bad as I was imagining. I thought it was going to be completely gold. It actually looks half decent.
Euler

I would just keep this ‘gold’ out. The coolest design (image wise) is that old traditional one, white with black pentagons, as seen in these “Buy World Cup Tickets” banners to the right.
wendall

With such a push for everything retro these days (just look at the jersey designs), I don’t think you’ll have long to wait to see a throwback to the old school ball. My favourite was the Azteca.