The World Cup is drama regardless of quality of the football

It does not matter how bad a game of football is when the game is in the knock out stages of the World Cup. World Cup knock out grantees drama. So let's not dwell on the poor quality of the quarter finals and the predictable results since we entered the knock out stages. Instead let's appreciate the soap operatic narrative, from the foul fest of Brazil Columbia to Louis Van Gal's Kruel narrative twist on Saturday night's penalty shoot out. The World Cup is drama regardless of quality of the football and that's why everyone watches it, its bigger than football.


Match of A Sentence: Belgium 0 Argentina 1
Belgium players try to play footsy with Messi and Couteois does some impressive fist pumps but Argentina only need to turn up to seven to see off the over rated generation.

Match of A Sentence: Costa Rica 0 Netherlands 0 (Netherlands win on penalties)
Like a Hollywood epic the game begun with a dauntingly boring first hour but as more time expired the final half hour reached a spin tingling climax.

Don't Give Up Being a Butthead... Louis Van Gaal

Van Gaal has a face you want to hate. The high hair line and protruding chin elongates his often smug and self congratulatory persona. For the first time in Premier League history Mourinho may well have met his match when it comes to which manger has larger ego. Van Gaal likes to refer to himself in the third person, a quality only he and Mourinho share. However Mourinho is undoubtedly good looking, his arrogance has a Mediterranean charm that makes him the casanova of the Premier League. In contrast  Van Gaal's appearance exudes the self assurance of a bond villain. No lovable rogue quality just a horrible stench of success, an ideal fit for everyone's most hated club, Man U.

Man Crush of The Day: Keylor Navas

Its been a World Cup for goal keepers, Ochoa performance against Brazil, Neuer becoming a sweeper for Germany, M'Bohli against Germany. Tim Kruel will no doubt get all the plaudits for coming on and saving Costa Ricca's penalties but the best keeper of the tournament was actually his opposite number. Keylor Navas has only conceded two goals the entire tournament, playing in all five matches. Against Greece and Holland he twice had one of those games. My only image I have of him is his muscular frame stretched horizontal in the air. This image is so embed in my memory that I don't think I would recognize him if he was vertically starring at me face to face. In a constant aerial glide he effortlessly imposed himself on the games and did it without the macho swagger you see from the majority of keepers. Tim Kruel could learn a lot!

So no upsets since the knock out stages. Every team running of the same script (with the exception of Neymar injury) but if this World Cup is to be remembered as one of the greatest then we are now due a classic.