Browsing Tag Brazil
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Football
How the World Cup led me to Miss Trans Star 2010 and rekindled my passion for the Socceroos
What do I, the Socceroos, and Miss Trans Star 2010 all have in common? Apart from similar reproductive organs, perhaps not much. However, we all made an appearance at ...
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Football
The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Brazil v Netherlands, Germany v Argentina
Brazil 0 Netherlands 3 I wake up at 3:00am in a foreign city in a foreign country – you’d perhaps call it Sydney, New South Wales – and ...
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Football
The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Brazil v Germany, Netherlands v Argentina
Brazil 1 Germany 7 It’s only on a Saturday morning, now three or four days after the event that I can make sense of the whole affair, my ...
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The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Germany v France, Brazil v Colombia
France 0 Germany 1 Because I somehow got roped into watching two episodes of the 1997 adventure series Conan the Adventurer – think Hercules or Xena, but with about 1/10th of the budget, awful ...
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Football
The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Brazil v Chile, Colombia v Uruguay, Costa Rica v Greece
Brazil 1 Chile 1 – Brazil win on penalties In the Elizabethan ‘Great Chain of Being’, there’s a place for everything and everything is in its place. God ...
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Football
World Cup Farken: The Guide to surviving Brazilian TV Reporters, U.S. Soccer Fans and the rare dull game
This piece was supposed to be about the Japan v Greece match I attended at the Arena das Dunas in Natal last Thursday night. I really can’t be ...
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Football
The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Brazil v Mexico, Russia v S Korea, Australia v The Netherlands
Brazil 0 Mexico 0 I am woken gently by my old man at 5:10am and asked, the way that substitute teachers are apparently asked, if I would like ...
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Football
The Heavy Sleeper’s World Cup Review: Brazil v Croatia, Spain v Netherlands
Brazil 3 Croatia 1 Unusually toss and turn all night instead of sleeping like a brick, waking up in time to miss most of the anthems, which is ...
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Football
World Cup Farken: Puto!! Celebrating victory with the Mexicans
The cancelled flight from Lisbon to Recife. The look on your face when you realise you will miss your connection to Natal. That sinking feeling when you depart ...
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Pop Culture
Hombre of the Damned: Meet Padre Iron Maiden, Brazil’s Thorn in the Flesh
I want you to close your eyes for a moment – but keep reading – and picture if you can the stereotypical, clichéd image of a slightly ageing ...
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