Cheerio & Thanks!

That’s all from World Cup College! We would like to thank our loyal readership‚ and pass on special thanks to those who have left regular comments. It’s been a lot of fun keeping the site going over the past few months. We hope you’ve enjoyed it too. We were also very pleased to be considered one of the best World Cup websites by respected football magazine When Saturday Comes.

WCC has been running in earnest since early January and in total we have posted more than 200 football-related articles. Most of these have featured in the College’s main faculties: Arts and Law, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. If we needed any light relief, the Student Union was always open where we could grab a cheap lager whilst shaking our heads indignantly at the antics of Wing-back‚ Ashley Le Sansom.

We followed England through their successful qualification campaign for South Africa, and accordingly believed that a reasonably successful World Cup 2010 lay ahead. This hope should perhaps have been tempered by plentiful historical evidence which suggests that England aren’t a member of the world’s footballing elite. But it was an enjoyable tournament overall: Spain were worthy winners and it’s nice to have a new name on the cup. WCC’s favourite team of the tournament were semi-finalists Germany who gave England a hard time in the Round of 16. WCC predicts that Germany will be the first European team to win a World Cup in South America at Brazil 2014.

The site will stay online as the definitive academic guide to World Cup 2010 – cheerio!