Well the World cup has started and it is living up to expectations.
Some canny games but overall great technique to be seen and incredible goals.
After one game, the English media are rounding on their boys, so I guess, some things never change but if you play like sh*te and still win, I believe, that is a good omen for “Engerland”. I cannot believe though that Jermaine Defoe & Darren Bent are back home watching the tournament on the telly! – Mindboggling! It appears that the Swede may yet be a turnip!
Pluckiest team so far are the boys of Trinidad & Tobago who played with 10 men and held the fancied Swedes to a 0-0 draw. England had a great day with that result!
Meanwhile the Italians are off to a flyer as are the Dutch, the Argentineans, the Krauts & good ole “Aussie” who plundered three goals in the last 10 minutes to deservedly beat the Japs and pay them back for WW2 and buying up their country!
France & Switzerland played a boring 0-0 draw carrying on their tradition of boring group games. .There is a huge irony in this game being that it was played in the Neckarstadion in Stuttgart, scene of Ireland’s greatest victory (http://deadlydeshravenspoint.blogspot.com/2005/02/1988-and-all-that.html )The Irony is compounded when one realizes that these two teams topped Ireland’s group which Ireland could & should have run off with only for a cretinous management to implode and play tactically ‘defensively” when in the lead thereby surrendering the advantage & initiative to the Israelis, Swiss & allowing the French in particular off the hook spectacularly in Paris. Oh well, the world is full of “ifs & onlys”….if me uncle had tits, he’d be my auntie!
Brazil beat Croatia 1-0, Ronaldo did an imitation of Maradona that is - Maradona of 2006! Again Brazil did an “England”, they played poorly yet won against a solid Croatian outfit!
More to come!
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England will win it, no doubt in my mind at all.
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