Tag Archives: FIFA

I attended 29 games of football in the last twelve months. Here are some of my favourite moments.

Relive the dramatic 2011 World Cup Final between Japan and USA

The 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup will be the seventh instalment of the quadrennial international women’s football world championship tournament. In March 2011, Canada won the right to host the event, the first time the country will host the tournament and the third time it has been in North America. The tournament will be held from 6 June to 5 ...

Brunei win their first ever World Cup Qualifying match and the goal is an absolute doozy

It's a little bit messi

We’ve approached an interesting milestone for football video games:  this year’s iteration of FIFA and Pro Evo will likely be the final ones on the current generation of game consoles before primary development will focus on Sony and Microsoft’s new consoles that will get unveiled in 2013.  What this means is that this year’s versions should be the most feature ...

Defending champions

It’s that time of year again.  Both Konami and EA Sports have released playable demos of their yearly iterations of Pro Evo Soccer and FIFA.  We all know the story: for a decade Konami ruled the roost with the best football video game in town until EA spectacularly stole the crown back with FIFA 10.  2010 saw a FatWeb football ...

One thing you have to give credit to FIFA for – they are consistent in their corruption and ability to find the worst referees in the world, no matter the gender of the players in the game. Equitorial Guinea are a team of some notoriety in the Womens World Cup.  They have been accused of playing men in their side ...

GROUP A: Germany, Canada, Nigeria, France GROUP B: Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, England GROUP C: US, N Korea, Colombia, Sweden GROUP D: Brazil, Australia, Norway, Equatorial Guinea The FIFA Women’s World Cup kicked off in Germany a few days ago.  We’re only a night away from the Matildas kicking off their campaign against Brazil (at 2 in the morning!). I’m ...