Spain are one of the perennial underachievers on football's biggest stage. Despite boasting some of the biggest club sides and best players in the history of the sport, they haven't progressed beyond the quarter final stage of World Cup finals since they finished fourth way back in 1950.

However, all could change in 2010. Spain arrive in South Africa as European champions and with a 100% qualifying record. Here are four reasons why Spain are the 4/1 favourites to triumph in South Africa.

This season is the toughest season of their run in rugby. For others, it's thrilling, for some it's miraculous while others it's entertaining.   

While the fans express their love, Utl Kobs players no longer feel the love on pitch, and have their heads to burry in shame just for the frustration they have registered at this first half of the season fixtures.

On Saturday, the rugby fraternity will express the love of the whole team to the same frustrated club as they take on to the pitch against Hima Impis, a Makerere based outfit.

Mugabe ends a- 14-year wait for Uganda open victory. "So what?" reacted my girl-friend after reading about that long- awaited victory in the local publications.

Little did I know that she knew Mugabe Duncan as a sole Tennis player on whom the Uganda Lawn Tennis Association (ULTA) is banking on at both international and local scenes.

"He's a single army and it's just a one off victory. We are bound to lose not so long time from now," she noted giving examples that I nodded to.

For once as a boyfriend, I had started to think that with that single quote, my fiancé had started learning to cope in a relationship where our daily schedule starts with disagreements and ends the same way.