In addition to Der Spiel, Herr Hippo is setting WCH’s  readership another fun challenge! We are sure that you’re acquainted with the BBC website’s Live Text coverage of football matches. This service explains the game via a sequence of handy nuggets of descriptive information. In addition to providing information on which players have scored and been booked, Live Text also valuably […]

I quote:
“Bolton manager Sam Allardyce admits it has been “very difficult” to accept he will not become England’s next head coach. Allardyce had been on the Football Association’s short-list, but Thursday’s appointment of Steve McClaren ended his hopes.”
When will this guy admit that the rest of the country are dancing for joy at his failure […]

An unnamed source advises WCH that meetings are taking place at BBC TV’s ‘World Cup Office’ in Cheadle, regarding music for the channel’s coverage of the big event.
Current favourites are:
Pato Banton ‘Baby Come Back’ 
Martine McCutcheon ‘Perfect Moment’  
Was Not Was ‘Shake Your Head’.

Apparently Sven Goran Eriksson is furious about interruptions to the England squad’s preparation for this year’s World Cup. However, Sven is neither concerned about the players’ frenetic domestic schedules, nor about media speculation over the England managerial post. No, Sven is angry about the ridiculous British custom of putting our clocks backward an hour for […]

           
In an exciting new Surgery Spy! feature we ask Frau Hippo (a leading lifestyle makeover consultant): Have they they or haven’t they? This week - Wayne Rooney!
“The standout feature for me are the cheeks. They are far more pronounced in the later picture which suggests that Wayne has probably undergone […]

English football’s brightest and dimmest were in Manchester this week to launch the new England away kit.
The scarlet red kit is inspired by the kit of 1966, when England won the World Cup on home soil.  Among it’s key features are gold coloured names and numbers, enlarged squad numbers on the front right shoulder and a […]

World Cup Hippo is proud to announce that Desktop Herr Hippo is now ready to download. You followed the Ashes with Desktop Richie, and the French Open with Desktop Tiger Tim, now have the company of Desktop Herr Hippo all through the sporting highlight of 2006.
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A workstation desktop without Desktop Herr Hippo […]