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World Cup Gifts For England Fans – South Africa 2010
In the summer of 2010 the largest event in sport kicks off in South Africa, the World Cup Football Finals. All of the fantastic international teams will gather to fight for the right to take home the World Cup trophy and be crowned champions of the football world for the next four years. Among the favourites to win are Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Germany and England. There will also be strong competition from the African nations, particularly the Ivory Coast and possibly the hosts, South Africa. The huge name players are all caught up, Christiano Ronaldo, Loinel Messi, Fernando Torrez, Wayne Rooney and Michael Ballack will all be desperate to win for their countries.
For those without tickets to see the games in South Africa there are plenty of ways to get caught up and lots of superb memorabilia to collect. In England the most well loved item is the flag of Saint George. Every time there is a huge sporting occasion which England are caught up in the total country goes St. George crazy. Flags adorn houses, shops and offices and can be see in the windows of cars and trucks. The simple red thwart on a white background is the proud emblem of a nation getting behind the team they like.
The English Football Association (The FA) have launched a very simple new football kit for the 2010 World Cup. Gone are the loud designs of the past, replaced with a simple white shirt with a small collar. The players number is positioned on the front of the shirt in red, right in the centre, with the well-known three lions crest on the breast. The players name and number also appear in red on the reverse of the shirt. The effect is a timeless garment which any England fan would be proud to wear. The England ‘away’ kit is not unlike the well-known red shirts that the 1966 World Cup winning squad wore on their victorious day.
There are other collectible items such as scarves, hats and T shirts. If you are not interested in garments there are many books and CD’s for sale, with profiles of the players and footage of the goals and highlights that got England to the finals. There are some brilliant novelty items too like the England World Cup rubber duck or the superb dancing, singing fan toy that sings England chants and looks like a right England fan in a replica shirt and jeans.
For many, export World Cup memorabilia is just a fantastic way to support the team, others start collections which become valuable over the years. There is a huge market for rare, collectible items, such as the World Cup Willie toys from the 1966 finals.
If you know someone who can’t wait for the kick off to the World Cup Finals and likes football gifts, there is a link below with some fantastic thoughts.
Paul Jeffrey
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Introduction: Its about an immortal murderer stalking the streets of Victorian London.
Here’s the first chapter:
The man in the long auburn trench coat was running without a sound down the silent streets of Victorian London. The raining street was deserted except for the anonymous man and an aristocratic couple walking toward him.
Moments before the nobles looked up at him from their own blueblood affairs the man ducked into an alleyway and did not emerge until they had made a corner.
He continued his journey through the winding, sooty jumble that was England until he at last found on St. James Square the large mineral construction that was the London Store.
He sprinted up the stairs and through the double doors into the airless fire-lit athenaeum and approached the main desk, where a librarian, half asleep, dissolved into the yellow back novel he was reading, was gently drifting into a dream.
The man stepped close to the librarian, close enough to touch him, to wrap his hands around the neck he so sought after to, but he waited. It seemed improper to close him off without a fight, when he had been so elusive an adversary for over five-hundred years.
He coughed a gentle cough, so gentle that a normal man would not have noticed it, but to the librarian’s trained ears it was as loud as a carriage thump, and his squinty eyes snapped open behind his wiry spectacles.
“You,” he said hoarsely, looking up at his disturber. The man’s face was invisible, shadowed by darkness under his wide brimmed hat and tall collar, but the librarian recognized him from the monogram stitched into his trench coat sheath: two dragons, intertwined around a sword. It was the crest of the Mudbrick family.
“James.” he cried, as two cold, gloved hands wrapped themselves around his neck.
“Martin,” nodded James Mudbrick, and with a squeeze he finished the life of a man whom many considered to be immortal.
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