When you reach the final group games you really need two heads to avoid the neck ache. Yesterday in the pub I was caught between two screens while watching the conclusion to Group G. Just like the USA team, I was constantly looking over my shoulder to see what was happening in the other match. Unlike the USA team I wanted Ghana to cover themselves into glories of the past, but instead their performance was shrouded in the corruptions of the present with a pay dispute and bad behavior sending some of the team home even earlier.Forget two heads, you need three, four, a hydra-like mind to keep up with all the stories that surround this World Cup. Lucky I am here to make it simple.
The Walton's John Boye kisses some money before scoring an own goal, only for Ghana to come back into game with good goal; but its highest paid player in the world that cashes in before Ghana and Portugal crash out.
Match of A Sentence: USA 0 Germany 1
Jurgen Klinsmann's team are so efficient you could call them German (actually 8 of them are) but they are not as German as Thomas Muller, the Bavarian Ken doll who scores again and everyone has to admit he is damm good, despite wanting to break his legs.
Match of A Sentence: Algeria 1 Russia 1
Soul stirring stuff as Algeria (the World Cup's resident whipping boys) celebrate as they go through to the last 16 for the first time despite Russia coming out and not only playing but actually being genuinely exciting to watch as they score the first goal, but allow brave Algeria (see Faghouli's bleeding head) to fight back for a draw with the help of a laser beam pointed directly in the Russian keeper's face.
Match of A Sentence: Belgium 1 South Korea 0
Belgium continue to piss off the football hipster by grinding out victories and winning in the most assuming clinical manner, even with ten men.
Don't Give Up My Man Crushes... Best Team Out of the Competition
Amalgamating my two daily sections I have brought the best players in the tournament who are now out of the tournament. Playing the formation 4 4 2 (despite this formation being absent in most World Cup teams) so all positions on the pitch are fairly represented.
Goalkeeper: A.Haghighi (Iran)
Defenders: Asamoah (Ghana), J Guagua (Ecuador), Bonucci (Italy), Chiellini (Italy),
Midfield: Gervinho (Ivory Coast), Rakitic (Croatia), Tim Cahill (Australia), an Injured Ronaldo (Portugal)
Forwards: A Gyan (Ghana), E. Valencia (Ecuador)
So today is the first day without football as we begin the gradual come down from football saturation, sadly for me its like the world is getting smaller not bigger.
