Today's World Cup Menu
Duval Belgian Ale, McDonald's Quarter-pounder - No Russian goals so no vodka
Out with my daughter today, as I didn't see her last week for Father's Day, so I missed the Belgium v Russia game because I was driving for half of it and ..errr...kipping through the other half. It was a game I wanted to see but it was apparently very poor with Belgium snatching it late.
It's hard to assess the competition with England out; lack of even a promise of a last 16 place means viewing the rest of the tournament as a neutral and - good as some of the teams look - there is an inevitability that many of them won't be worrying the quarter-finals. This makes the entertainment quotient somehow diminished and I'm not sure why this is. I've watched World Cups where England haven't even been represented and enjoyed them immensely, so perhaps this is just a fleeting feeling. Or perhaps I'm just tired of the whole thing - I have to admit there are elements of 21st Century football I find really tiresome.
Last night's Germany v Ghana was a cracker though and I've really enjoyed tonight's Korea v Algeria game too, although I'm still concerned that the Africans are merely a France 'B' team because a lot of the player's came through the French nursery system, playing for France for the Under 19's before switching to Algeria. This is a nonsense, is happening everywhere and now affects quite a few national sides and it should be stopped immediately. Incidentally, I say that as a fan of English cricket which has had more than it's fair share of South Africans and Australians in; there should be no residential issue at all - At least not until the first batch of Poles, Germans and Rumanian's start playing for England.
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