by Steve
23. June 2010 07:10
Fans of all nations have lit up the 2010 World Cup with their incredible passion, noise, not to mention at times bizarre costumes... During Portugal's recent 7-0 demolition of North Korea, a small section of North Korean fans who had somehow managed to make it to South Africa, supported their hard-working and at times very skillful team throughout the entire 90 minutes.

The site of the Korean fans waving flags and cheering as their team conceded their seventh goal, showed that the country could win off the field, if not on it. The display seems all the more pertinent following England fans booing reaction to the woeful draw against Algeria. Today England face Slovenia in a must win game in Port Elizabeth. Failure to do so will certainly resort in a deafening chorus of boo's, possibly the only noise loud enough to drown out the Vuvuzela's.
England are not North Korea, and of course fans shouldn't cheer the team off following another poor result, but this is now last chance saloon and the hordes of England fans who have travelled thousands of miles to be with the team owe it not just to the players, but to themselves, to give as much support as humanly possible until the final whistle goes...
by Dan
14. October 2009 07:43
As you know icons.com is the world's leading supplier of signed football memorabilia. We've been meeting with world's best players for nearly 10 years now and bringing our customers the best quality products out there.
We were looking back in the archive of our signing photos throughout those 10 years and found these classics from the first Galactico era of Floretino Perez at Real Madrid. Back then we conducted numerous signings with the top players from that team.
Check out the signing photos of the orginal Ronaldo - the World Cup's greatest goalscorer of all-time

We also met the first of Perez's signings, Portuguese legend Luis Figo - signed from arch-rivals Barcelona for a then record transfer fee of £38.7m.

Icons.com also conducted a signing session with the best attacking full back of his era, Roberto Carlos, scorer of possibly the best free kick of all-time
and World Cup winner in 2002.

And as we were meeting all three of these superstars within a few months of each other we were able to create one of the most unique products we've ever had - a triple-signed Real Madrid Galatico photo.

As we only ever had limited supplies of these products they all sold out extremely quickly so unfortunately we don't have any more of them available.
However in a World Cup year there's always the possibility of new signings with these legends.
And if we were ever able to arrange signings with Zinedine Zidane and David Beckham the people who had signed up to the icons.com newsletter would certainly be the first to know. Watch this space.
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by Dan
27. May 2009 12:24
Tonight's Champions League final has all the makings of a classic. Manchester United and Barcelona have both already wrapped up their domestic titles, in the two strongest leagues in Europe, so whoever wins will truly be able to call themselves the Champions of Europe.
It also pits against each other the two best players in the world right now, Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, in what Fabio Capello has dubbed the unofficial contest for the Ballon d'Or.
Icons has decided to celebrate this momentous occasion by offering 10 per cent off all our Ronaldo and Messi stock for 48 hours.
That's Manchester United home shirts, Barcelona home shirts, Portugal shirts, Argentina shirts, and all signed photographs.
Get yourself a bargain while you can.