World Cup 2010 Google Calendar
Posted on December 12, 2009It has become impossible for me to update the original calendar, Google keeps timing out when I try to save loosing any changes I have made.
Instead I have created an ICAL file which you can import in to Google yourself, copy this link http://blog.artesea.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/World-Cup.ics and paste it in to the “Add a friend’s calendar” box on the bottom left of Google Calendar.
I will be saving this calendar twice a day after each of the matches. Hopefully you should get the changes quickly on your new Google Calendar.
I also suggest you remove the old calendar as it seems to have some impact on the speed in which the other calendars load and sync.
(You can now ignore above, everything seems to be fine. Looks like Google crashed out when iOS4 came out and everyone re-synced their phones at the same time).
As there isn’t one is the preset list from Google for next years World Cup in South Africa, I’ve created this myself. If you wish to add it to your own Google Calendar click on the + icon at the bottom right.
I will be updating the knockout stages as soon as we know which teams will be in each fixture.
SORRY IF THE CALENDAR IS TAKING IT’S TIME TO LOAD, THIS SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM WITH GOOGLE SHARING IT WITH SO MANY PEOPLE
Feedback in the comments suggest that if your Google Calendar is set to your timezone the fixtures will appear with the correct time for you. eg BST, PST, EST, CET, JST…
Alternate formats: XML | ICAL | HTML
To get the football icons (or others) next to your events on your own calendar, you need to enable Labs in Google Calendar, and there is an option to add “Event Flair”. When you next add or edit an event you should see a choice of icons on the right hand side.
If you wish to get the calendar on your mobile, you might consider using Goosync, you’ll need a premium account to sync calendars other than your primary one. They are available from £19.99.
Like what I do? Why not donate
Tags: calendar, google, world cup
Categories: Calendars, Featured
Great! – thank you
06.12.2009 15:55
many thanks
have downloaded today. be aware, though, that some game times were changed by FIFA at the weekend, eg group D, to accommodate european tv audiences
cheers
Carlo
07.12.2009 02:17
Carlo, thanks for the tip off with the changes in times. All have now been modified (until Fifa do it again).
07.12.2009 10:22
Hi, thanks for this. Am I right in thinking all the times are GMT?
07.12.2009 12:31
Alex, the times are UK based which will be UTC+1 with our Summer Time.
07.12.2009 12:54
Marvellous, thanks again.
The Telegraph did one for the qualifiers but haven’t kept it updated for the finals.
Apparently they are subject to copyright. Bizarre. Cheers, and congrats for being top return on a Google search.
07.12.2009 14:16
Many thanks, i’ll be sticking a link for this on a few places where i know people will be interested.
07.12.2009 16:46
Thanks alot…great service you offered to footy fans everywhere.
09.12.2009 20:38
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
10.12.2009 17:40
Fantastic, just what I was looking for, thank you, thank you, thank you.
12.12.2009 00:39
This is great idea, thanks!
For some reason because I have a Google Apps AND a standard Google calendar accounts I can’t add this as Google doesn’t know which gcal to add it to.
Would you be able to post the xml or ical address to share the calendar?
18.12.2009 10:52
@James you should be able to paste rp57smf89rsb1hgo09abvq1mhg@group.calendar.google.com into the “Add a friend’s calendar” box (under “Other calendars”).
However here are the ical and xml links
18.12.2009 10:57
Scratch that – I managed to add ti to my standard cal, and then copy the public xml link in order to add it to my Apps cal.
Here’s the link for anyone else that needs to do it this way:
http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/rp57smf89rsb1hgo09abvq1mhg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
18.12.2009 11:18
Ah, just saw your comment after posting that – thanks Ryan
18.12.2009 11:19
Merci pour cet agenda bien pratique.
19.12.2009 15:29
Thanks Dude! Appreciate the post
23.12.2009 02:45
Many thanks!
31.12.2009 18:58
Thanks for this! You have saved me an effort knocking this together.
02.01.2010 19:16
I believe might be off by 1 with the timezones. The UK will, indeed, be at UTC+1 during the summer as per your previous comment. South Africa will remain at UTC+2, because they do not have a daylight savings time shift.
04.01.2010 18:51
@William, the calendar has been primarily designed for me with the match times in based on my timezone (London).
I’ve yet to find a way for Google to allow you to shift the times on a shared calendar based on a timezone of your choice. One option you do have though is to download the ical file and do a find and replace on the times. As there are only 3 different kickoff times it shouldn’t be too hard to create the variations.
04.01.2010 20:09
Assuming you entered the data by hand from your current timezone (UTC), I think you subtracted 2 as you typed. Correct me if I am wrong. Keep in mind I’m seeing them as my local timezone, so am extrapolating your data-entry method.
Kickoff of first game is 1600 UTC+2.
I think you probably typed in 1400, because the current time difference is 2 hours. Google Calendar is not going to magically change this to 1500 at the moment the UK goes on daylight time.
As a test, if you configure Google Calendar to show you the additional timezone of Johannesburg (in your default account settings), it will claim the game is going to start at 1500 UTC+2. It appears the app is smart and already knows the difference will be one hour on that date.
04.01.2010 21:41
Hmm, that’s odd, I entered all the times with kickoffs as 12:30, 15:00 and 19:30 and they all looked ok, but suddenly everything has shifted backwards an hour.
Time to move all of them forward.
05.01.2010 09:25
Thank you very much!
08.01.2010 13:24
many thanks, i sync this beautiful calendar with my n95 with googasync. works perfect, greetengs
08.01.2010 22:57
i have a question Ryan, after elimination, it will be automatically updated to google calendar? i mean the hexagonal matches.
11.01.2010 00:20
Fixtures will need to be manually updated once we know who wins each group. I plan to do this as soon as I find out, and can even modify the fixtures on my mobile. But there could be the odd delay if I can’t get online.
11.01.2010 10:59
Thanks! Good work. Hope you can update it timely
12.01.2010 18:41
Excellent! Thank you!
12.01.2010 20:45
Cheers fella… top stuff.
13.01.2010 15:26
Hey dude, this is some serious meticulous work.
Well done and thankyou!
- Shaun
15.01.2010 08:06
Thank you very much for your work!
16.01.2010 04:51
Nice. Thanks for your work
16.01.2010 10:56
That’s great – many thanks!
20.01.2010 16:16
Amazing!, added. thanks
26.01.2010 15:35
Good work fella. Thanks very much. Also pleased to read your views on mobile phone masts. A much needed alternative perspective.
26.01.2010 18:44
Thank you, thats brilliant
27.01.2010 15:39
Thanks! I’m based in South Africa and when I added the calendar the times were updated to my time zone so they’re the local time (which at that time of the year is +1 hour)
02.02.2010 09:13
Top man Ryan – really useful – roll-on 11 June.
03.02.2010 12:51
This is great work.. thanks a lot. Saved me a lot of time and trouble “touchscreening” all the matches on my iPhone!!
07.02.2010 00:21
Perfect! Thanks a lot.
09.02.2010 13:48
You are a star – thanks for putting in the time to do this
10.02.2010 18:12
Google now has a present calendar for this, which identifies your local time zone too. Doesn;t appear to have the stage 2 games yet though.
03.03.2010 01:39
The Google calendar for the World Cup is separated into the different nations, I couldn’t find one that contains all matches.
But this one does, so thank you
07.03.2010 11:17
Superb! Much better than the other Google calendar! You fking rock
07.03.2010 18:05
awesome! your stats must be rising fast for this page
. I can’t quite believe the Powers That Be weren’t on top of this
10.03.2010 13:44
Good Job! Just what I was looking for!
15.03.2010 15:42
Thanks so much for this. Added the calendar and all entries are in the Malaysian time zone. Great work.
16.03.2010 02:19
great job. thanking you!
16.03.2010 09:04
thanks – was surprised that google didn’t have this already.
19.03.2010 21:59
many thanx
this is a great help
26.03.2010 14:00
You saved us time.. thank you! =]
30.03.2010 18:53
Perfect!, thank you very much.
31.03.2010 09:16
Excellent job, thanks a lot!
13.04.2010 16:13
great, thanks a lot! only one question: does the time adjust to my zone (GMT -5) or is it the south africa time and i have to do the math?
20.04.2010 06:59
Sebastian, feedback shows that as long as your Google Calendar settings are set to your Timezone then the fixtures will be correct for you.
20.04.2010 09:32
Thanks a lot for this – very handy
20.04.2010 13:00
Fantastic – very usefull! Thanks very much.
25.04.2010 10:12
Thanks for the calendar! I don’t know why Google didn’t just create a single one for the whole World Cup like this. Who wants to add 32 calendars for one event? LOL
28.04.2010 20:34
Thanks a ton man. Good work!!
29.04.2010 11:16
Thanks very much – just what I was looking for!
04.05.2010 02:38
This is fantastic… Exactly what I needed.
One question – will you update the calendar after the group competition – so that Teams take place of 1A vs 2B?
04.05.2010 10:35
@Rafał, I will be updating the knockout stages as soon as I know who will be playing in each match. In some cases this will be seconds after a game has finished (I can edit the calendar on my mobile), others may be a few hours, especially if I’ve been drinking in the pub as it’s easy to forget to do the updating
04.05.2010 10:46
Google has added team-specific FIFA World-Cup 2010 calendars complete with goals scored. Under “Other Calendars” click Add, then Browse Interesting Calendars, then select the Sports tab, scroll down to click on FIFA World Cup, then Subscribe to the teams you want.
05.05.2010 15:51
Brilliant stuff, thanks Ryan.
06.05.2010 12:23
Hi, when I try and add I get ‘Do not have permission to add World cup 2010s calendar’. Am I being daft?
06.05.2010 17:02
@UnnDunn: Google stuff is not good. There ma many teams I dont want so many calendars – just one will do, as this one. Ryan – thanks for the answer. Such updates are fine. Thanks a lot.
06.05.2010 17:41
You rock! The “by team calendars” that google has didn’t sit well with me. Awesome! May I suggest adding the scores as the games are completed?
07.05.2010 21:16
Thanks! on my G1 now
08.05.2010 08:56
muchas muchas gracias! thanks mate.
08.05.2010 10:54
Hey, thanks so much for taking the time. Now I’ll try not to forget any matches while in Norway!
10.05.2010 12:53
Thanks for the Calendar dude! Really helpful!
10.05.2010 14:17
Huge time saver for me. Thank you very much for this!
10.05.2010 18:27
Thank you very much.
now time to see if i’m working on any of the england matches.
10.05.2010 21:50
GRacias! Thankyou from Mexico and guess whos gonna win in Wemblay may 27 lol
11.05.2010 05:02
Extremely handy! Thank you!
11.05.2010 18:09
GRACIAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TE PASASTE!!!!!!!!
SALUDOS DESDE CHILE!!!!!!!
11.05.2010 19:17
Awesome – thanks for this.
11.05.2010 22:26
Great, n1
Can’t wait,
COME ON ENGLAND!!!!!
12.05.2010 12:47
Well done you – a great idea, much appreciated.
12.05.2010 16:19
Hi, will you update scores after end of match ?
13.05.2010 09:46
This is great – thank you very much!
13.05.2010 16:35
Can i update the scores after the match?
15.05.2010 06:35
Brilliant calendar.
I’ve a quick question that maybe someone will answer for me. I sync Google Calendars with my iPhone. Unfortunately only those calendars listed under “My Calendars” sync with the handset and not those listed under “Other Calendars” (which is where this one appears. Is there anyway of making those “Other Calendars” sync up?
15.05.2010 12:56
OK, scratch that. I found out.
For anyone wlse who’s wondering, the answer’s here:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=139206&topic=14252
15.05.2010 13:35
Excellent.
Thank you.
17.05.2010 06:39
Brilliant – thanks for putting this together…don’t know why Google just don’t consolodate their separate calendars for subscription to save you the effort but it’s much appreciated!
17.05.2010 10:46
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
18.05.2010 13:27
It won’t be possible for you to edit the calendar (without exporting to your computer and then reimporting). Because of the requests I’ll be placing the scores in to the event titles eg South Africa 1 – 1 Mexico once the games have ended.
18.05.2010 16:10
Thanks so much!!!!
18.05.2010 22:01
Awesome stuff, what else do I really need?
19.05.2010 02:23
Just what I was looking for and top result when googling for it – nice work!
Just one thing, perhaps adding the liitle football icon ‘flair’ would put the cherry on top – bit rude, I know
)
19.05.2010 11:05
Great! Thanks for this calendar!
19.05.2010 15:56
Thanks for the superb calendar, you are one cool dude!
19.05.2010 18:18
Great stuff. Thanks
19.05.2010 18:58
Ah for the good old days when you could search for things like this *within* Google Calendars. I still don’t understand why they took that function away.
Thanks, though!
20.05.2010 07:28
Smart going to download it now. Thanks for sharing. Come on England.
20.05.2010 15:39
many thanks. Just what I was looking for
20.05.2010 16:34
Thank you so much this is great, I know this sounds greedy but is there a way to get all the Fifa international friendlies auto populated into google calendar instead of doing it manually?
21.05.2010 04:45
Perfect.
Here’s to a great summer of football
Many thanks
21.05.2010 09:57
Awesome, Thanks!!
21.05.2010 15:37
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! I love it..
22.05.2010 07:42
Thanks for creating and keeping a WC calendar updated! It’s great for the rest of us!
22.05.2010 14:45
Thanks for this, great stuff! Now for England to win it!
24.05.2010 12:33
great job man
thanks a lot
24.05.2010 17:05
That is great! Thank you very much!
25.05.2010 07:29
Fantastic, just what I wanted. Great work.
25.05.2010 12:22
Fantastic! Thanks
25.05.2010 14:49
how come google separated their calendar in the different countries to begin with? your calendar is perfect and hereby added!
26.05.2010 08:26
a quick search on google to find a time saving device for adding fixtures found me you! Fantastic – thank you so much!
26.05.2010 12:25
Nicely done and very much appreciated!
27.05.2010 00:13
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!! Had messed up my calendar with all the teams… this is brilliant
27.05.2010 11:19
Much appreciated! Thanks.
27.05.2010 12:31
Thanks a lot, I hope you’ll manage to keep this up to date once the World Cup gets going! I can’t believe Google doesn’t have this one as a default though
!
I hope you don’t mind that I linked to you on my blog: http://b.wardje.eu/post/637615828
27.05.2010 14:36
Wow! Thanks so much! This is exactly what I was looking for in preparation for planning around SA2010!
27.05.2010 16:08
Y are a wonderfull wonderull man =D
28.05.2010 14:26
thank you very much…much appreciated
29.05.2010 12:00
Thanks! where is the download?
29.05.2010 22:16
Thanx for the calendar! Exactly what I needed
30.05.2010 09:11
Fantastic – thanks!
30.05.2010 14:33
hank you very much…much appreciated
31.05.2010 07:20
A must. Good work.
31.05.2010 09:09
Thank you very much mate.
31.05.2010 13:08
Perfect! Was looking for this one! Great!!! Thank you so much!
31.05.2010 17:26
Thanks for this calendar. Works just like it is supposed to. Google has calendar for each individual country which is not very convenient.
01.06.2010 04:45
Thanks dude! for the effort
01.06.2010 09:25
Thank you, taht was exactly what I was looking for.
Greetigs from Berlin
01.06.2010 10:49
Awesome! Thanks mate. I hope these Google show these per my proper local time.
Cheers!
01.06.2010 11:59
Ace job man! Many thanks, I was really p*ssed off with the country-by-country calendars offered by Google!
01.06.2010 13:25
this is bollocks
01.06.2010 17:28
Thanks thanks thanks!
01.06.2010 18:45
thanks. stupid Google has them separated by country. I want to see ALL the matches.
thanks again
01.06.2010 22:29
Dude, you rule. Thanks so much for doing this!
02.06.2010 00:26
PERFECT!
I love how it automatically converted to my time zone, too!
Many many thanks!
02.06.2010 02:54
perfect. really appreciate it.
02.06.2010 08:45
Just imported into my Google Calendar and I couldn’t be happier that it adjusted to my time zone. Thank you so much for your hard work.
02.06.2010 16:23
This is great!
Would you be able to update it with the new flair google has (small soccer ball)? This will help my already crowded calendar.
If you can’t, it’s cool. This is definitely tip top. thx
02.06.2010 17:25
You are a legend!! Thank you v much for developing and sharing this.
02.06.2010 22:47
Ryan,
Outstanding work, so good that I’ve actually just made a donation via PayPal!!
José
PS: Vamos Argentina!!!
02.06.2010 23:49
Cheers mate, saved me a bit of work!
02.06.2010 23:58
You are a genius mate. Thanks a lot.
03.06.2010 12:34
José, thanks for the donation.
A.cerrillo I would love to add a graphic, however can’t see anything in the settings which would let me add one.
03.06.2010 12:37
Absolutely wunderbar!
03.06.2010 17:43
lovely. Thanks much.
03.06.2010 18:59
Great job, thanks!
03.06.2010 20:57
my friend, you did us all a great favor!!
thanks!
thanks!
03.06.2010 21:41
A big “Merci” from a french fan (crossing his finger :S).
Bye !
04.06.2010 08:47
Hi Ryan,
As I use Google Apps, I cannot add the calendar with the plus sign… and I would really love to add this!
Could you give me the xml address?
You can find it in the settings of this calendar…
Hope you respond because I really appreciate this effort you made in creating the calendar!
Theo.
04.06.2010 09:06
Ryan, don’t bother – I figured it out through your ‘add calendar of a friend’ link…
Thanks a lot!!
04.06.2010 09:14
Huge thanks, just what I was looking for – appreciate your efforts!
04.06.2010 09:20
Fabulous! Thank you so much! Already excited waiting for the whole month of fab footy!
04.06.2010 17:07
Awesome! I downloaded it and it automatically converted into my local time zone. Let the games begin!
05.06.2010 15:27
Good Job, Thanks
06.06.2010 11:37
Nice work: download the basic.ics and imported it into google apps account – times converted nicely to Eastern US.
Thanks for the time you spent doing this.
07.06.2010 02:56
The event flair is a Google Labs feature, so you’ve got to enable it under Settings > Calendar Settings > Labs > Event flair. After that, you should be able to see a widget in your main calendar view.
07.06.2010 07:27
You just saved me hours of typing. You are the man. A donation is paypaling over – buy yourself a pint.
07.06.2010 09:36
Cheers man, much appreciated!
07.06.2010 11:06
great work – thanks v much
07.06.2010 11:09
FINDING THIS CALENDER MADE MY DAY. THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROSITY.
Massimo
07.06.2010 15:08
@RK many thanks for the labs tip, have now added the icon to all the matches.
@Macca thanks for the pint.
07.06.2010 15:52
Hi,
Thanks for putting this up. Is there a way I can set the time of the game to my local time?
07.06.2010 23:00
Thank you! Good job !
08.06.2010 00:20
thank you very much for setting up this calender ^^
08.06.2010 10:34
TNX !! That’s what I searched for !!
How did you insert those cool football icons in the calendar ?
I’ve never seen something like this before and found nothing in the google help center.
08.06.2010 11:13
@Do1eh, in the Calendar Labs you should find an option for “Event Flair”
08.06.2010 11:24
Bloody amazing – you have just saved me so much time.
Much appreicated.
You are a scholar and a gentleman.
08.06.2010 12:01
Tanks man! Far better than a Google solution, witch is separate calendar for every nation.
08.06.2010 13:36
Thank you kindly.
08.06.2010 14:56
Thanks for posting the calendar!
08.06.2010 17:51
Thank you very much man!!!
09.06.2010 08:36
Cheers pal, top handiwork.
09.06.2010 10:05
Superb!!!
Thank you soooo much!!
09.06.2010 11:11
Thanx a lot!
I really wanted this. d(>ω<*)
09.06.2010 11:37
Thanks a lot man!
Super duper convenient
09.06.2010 16:46
To get this calendar on your n900, follow these steps…
1. download the ICAL version of this calendar.
2. import the ICAL file into you google calendar.
3. follow steps here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=5f92340e8dea5ed7&hl=en
4. Done!
09.06.2010 19:04
Thank you soooo very much for doing this, lifesaver!!
09.06.2010 21:49
Thank you! This is awesome.
09.06.2010 23:40
Excelente a mi me funciono y con los horarios de mi zona horaria. Gracias!!!!
10.06.2010 01:37
Thank you for your hard work on this, it’s excellent.
Enjoy the world cup
10.06.2010 04:40
Thanks a lot, I was looking for this.
10.06.2010 12:56
Cheers mate! First link on google is a Brit – good to see we are good at something
10.06.2010 17:40
Thanks alot.. This is a huge help..
10.06.2010 19:35
Thanks so much for the calendar! Great job!
10.06.2010 20:39
Thanks for this great calendar!
10.06.2010 21:07
Nice – thanks for sharing your work!
11.06.2010 01:21
If you could update the calendar after each match, i would be grateful!
11.06.2010 10:32
Fantastic! Thank you very very much!
11.06.2010 14:40
Thank you so much! This is so much easier than … any of the other options. Appreciate all the hard work you’ve done here.
11.06.2010 15:40
thank you so much!
11.06.2010 20:53
I just noticed you are updating scores for these games as they happen. you are officially my hero
11.06.2010 21:58
For those who have Nokia phones don’t pay any third party company to sync. Just download mail for exchange from Ovi store and follow instructions on http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=147951
12.06.2010 01:53
Thank you poster & adil
12.06.2010 05:58
Thank you so much!
I will spread your wonderful work on twitter!
12.06.2010 06:13
Great!!! saved me a lot of time!
enjoy the games!
12.06.2010 07:46
Great, thanks.
I love integration of media and tools.
12.06.2010 15:40
The BBC have released a calendar now.
http://goo.gl/7AEr
12.06.2010 15:57
My friend you are doing great job by updating the result after each game. Thank you so much for your effort.
12.06.2010 17:32
good job! Many Thanks!
12.06.2010 22:40
thank you! great!
13.06.2010 00:29
Thanks a lot!! Just what I needed, and it works! Amazing job, and thank you for updating the events as time goes by
13.06.2010 00:34
Thanks a bunch! Google didn’t have a complete listing of the World Cup Games. You had to subscribe to each country individually so you had many duplicates.
13.06.2010 08:29
Thanks a lot, Ryan!
Pesky google option duplicates games as you have to subscribe to each nation individually. Hope you get time to update team names as the competition progresses. COME ON ENGLAND. Best wishes.
13.06.2010 12:11
Thanks! Good work.
13.06.2010 17:22
Awesome!!! Thank
13.06.2010 18:59
Thanks a lot. Google’s own calendar is broken down into teams. And you have to add each team!! Not Cool!!
Times adjusted to my timezone as well. Great thanks!
13.06.2010 20:52
thanks man i really didnt want to put dem in my self…..
14.06.2010 02:56
Vielen lieben Dank!
14.06.2010 13:53
Thanks! I am totally loving the games!
14.06.2010 14:31
nice job! thanks!
14.06.2010 20:02
Hey, this is great! Good job.
14.06.2010 23:44
thank you !
works on iCal like a bomb !
15.06.2010 01:32
===============<() Thanks!!!
15.06.2010 23:36
thanks for the updates – however the Slovakia – New Zealand result was 1-1
15.06.2010 23:46
@Gareth the score on my screen shows 1-1, however I’m finding that the calendar is taking an age to sync with my mobile (the New Zealand game is still showing no score). I just think that Google can’t cope with the large number of people subscribed to it.
16.06.2010 07:54
somewhere we can complain to google about the calendar lagging?
16.06.2010 16:18
The Calendar disappeared….
16.06.2010 19:05
Its taking ages to load or not at all on the google calendar website. also it started off fine but now it’s not syncing properly on my android phone
16.06.2010 19:21
Thanks Ryan, this is awesome, I have shared it with all my mates. One (perhaps a little late) request: How about adding the teams’ FIFA rankings?
http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html
From a sad South African…
17.06.2010 08:59
That’s a shame. I now can’t see this on google calendar – message reads “Calendar ‘World Cup 2010′ did not load” etc and has been that way for 2 days. Still have fixtures on android (which is handy) but the most recent result is also 2 days old – NZ v Slovakia 0-0, which was the half time score! Anyone else stuck at the same spot I wonder?
17.06.2010 10:00
My own phone is no longer displaying the games (I unsynced and resynced trying to get it to be up to date). My mates is perfectly fine and all scores correct.
The calendar does appear for a short while on the Google Website, just try hitting Ctrl+F5 and it should appear (but expect it to go again), or when it has gone on the left hand side click on “World Cup 2010″.
17.06.2010 10:26
Thanks a lot, mate ! Awsome ! I should have searched on google a bit earlier
21.06.2010 11:37
I am having the same problem as SJerz. Any help cuz I did what you suggested however it shows for a split second and then disappears again.
22.06.2010 20:58
Yeah, i’m having the same problem with the calendar not showing on my HTC Hero (UK)..i’ve unsubscribed and subscribed, re-syncs but no joy….shame as this feature was brilliant.
Any update on this would be great…
22.06.2010 22:46
It looks like Google haven’t built their calendars to be shared with tens of thousands of people (if not millions).
An alternative method would be to right click on this ICAL link, save the file to your computer. Then create a new google calendar for yourself and import that ICAL file.
You won’t get any of the updates, so you will have to do that yourself but at least it won’t keep vanishing.
At the moment it is taking me over 2 hours to get any updates saved to the calendar, so if you do manage to see the fixtures sorry if they are a bit out of date.
23.06.2010 06:40
I have the same issue. It looks like its an overload. Another way would be to use something like iCal’s feature to publish a local calendar hourly to a server and then we can link to that ICS file. Your calendar was such a great feature, now we can’t even see your efforts of adding scores anymore. How about re-publishing your file to the ICAL link you provided above? iCal on the Mac will be able to sync to that link instead of the Google one. Thanks for trying to make technology work for us…
25.06.2010 12:55
I had to unsubscribe. This calendar started to slow down all calendar. I use iCal that I will update by myself. Pity…
26.06.2010 09:35
I’ve updated the top of this blog post with the following:
It has become impossible for me to update the original calendar, Google keeps timing out when I try to save loosing any changes I have made.
Instead I have created an ICAL file which you can import in to Google yourself, copy this link http://blog.artesea.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/World-Cup.ics and paste it in to the “Add a friend’s calendar” box on the bottom left of Google Calendar.
I will be saving this calendar twice a day after each of the matches. Hopefully you should get the changes quickly on your new Google Calendar.
I also suggest you remove the old calendar as it seems to have some impact on the speed in which the other calendars load and sync.
27.06.2010 11:48
Thanks for this Ryan, much appreciated…
27.06.2010 22:01
This is a pity, that Google did not stand this. This was a great job of you Ryan. I will keep using your iCal file.
27.06.2010 22:10
Seems like Google have fixed the calendar from crashing. I believe the problem started when iOS4 came out and everyone re-synced their phones at the same time making Google Sync (including Calendars) unstable.
Don’t worry if you have switched to the other format, both the Google Calendar and the iCal file will be continued to be updated for the last 4 matches.
04.07.2010 11:14
Thanks again! It’s great that you created, shared and updated this calendar.
12.07.2010 14:36
Thanks a lot for this calendar Ryan. I loved that you were updating it as the action happened and it synced up to my phone (even though we ran into some trouble because of iOS4, that’s OK
)!! Are you gonna do something like this for Champions League? Please tell me yes!
16.01.2011 15:24