Arguably one of the greatest surprises of the recent World Cup was the achievement of the German football team in securing third place. In the run up to the tournament, the German team had generally been regarded as one of the weakest in their history, lacking the necessary experience as well as the quality and [...]

Why did you take him, Lord? He was only 89.
Of all the terrible appalling news that there have been in recent weeks, such as the small earthquake in China, the volcano in irrelevant Iceland, the discovering of life on Neptune, the decision by Dublin Bus to change many of its routes, surely they are [...]

Thierry Henry, 32
FIFA Footballer of the Year 2010
What is Va-Va-Voom? Va-Va-Voom is doing things with style, with flair, panache, a certain je ne sais quoi. Who can say? Not me. I am not the ref.
Gillette Mach 4 Turbo: Now that’s what I call a close shave.

I do a lot of work for charity, you know. [...]

The Musculing Mr. Nadal: Check Out His Sexpack!
Everyone in the Estímulo household this week am being debating the news that lithe, musculing Majorcan Raphael Nadal is to be back leading the Spanish team in the final of the David Cup tennis tournament final against somewhere call the Czech Republic next month in December.
On the one [...]

Is Not About the Yank!
In much the same way that the queen of England thinks that her country is smell of fresh paint, so all professional cycle jockeys are thinking that France is smell of Domesto and ¡Cillit Bof! This is because every year, when the Tour de France is passing through, the towns and [...]