Did I really just see that?
Football was back and how!
The first semi-final of this year's World Cup and the score was Brazil 1 Germany 7. I suspect I can return to look at this score many times over the years and it will still look like a dream.
Seven to Germany and it could have been many more, Mesut Ozil was clean through and beat the keeper with a couple of minutes to play, but saw the ball roll agonisingly wide when he really should have scored. Brazil struck their only goal from the moves resulting from the goal-kick and it was far, far more than they deserved.
Germany were clinical and played some excellent football but Brazil.. they were just awful. Seriously, I've been watching football a long time and I've never seen anything like it at the top level. BBC pundits were talking about previous records where Saudi Arabia conceded eight etc. but this was a World Cup semi-final and this was Brazil we're talking about. It was utterly astonishing. Some of the Brazilian players - Fred, David Luiz, Hulk - were worse than ordinary, their performances so wretched it was actually painful to watch at times.
Oddly, it was so unutterably astounding I can't think of anything else to say.
*Mouths like a fish but nothing comes out*
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