I was going to write a lengthy article summing up this tournament as a whole, but then I sat there and thought… there will be hundreds of people all doing the same thing. Two things finally put me off the idea. Firstly, I couldn’t be bothered. I have a million, trillion things to write for [...]
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Italy 1-1 France (Italy win 5-3 on Penalties)
Oh, Zizou. What a stupid, stupid thing to do. Into extra-time, and staring down the barrel of a penalty shoot-out. Having already lost Vieira and Henry to substitutes, we can only speculate over what was going through his mind, and it’s fair to say that his moment of [...]
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I’ve run out of time! Italy. I’ve just got a feeling about them. Don’t know why.
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Germany 3-1 Portugal
At half-time last night, I rather thought that I had, as promised, jinxed proceedings. But then the Germans came out and played. As I said yesterday, I really enjoy the World Cup third place play-off match, and in the end we had a match to be proud of, as Germany overcame Portugal comfortably. [...]
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It’s Germany against Portugal tomorrow, in possibly the least important match of the World Cup. I’m really, really looking forward to it. The third-place play-off may seem like just some sort of FIFA marketing scam to shove another 50000 or so hardy souls into a stadium for a couple of hours and squeeze some more [...]
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I’m not completely sure what to make of this. It was a surprise, I’ll say that much. Snappy Mick was especially delighted. Actually, the first thing I thought was, “Christ, I’ve got to email The Sun NOW and tell them that I, to my eternal shame, think that “Jellicle Ball” was great”. Anyway… I’m in [...]
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I’ve spent most of this evening looking around for geek-tastic things to put on here after the World Cup has finished. You may well all die of excitement. Under normal circumstances, I would have put this on afterwards, but it is World Cup related. Whilst taking a look at Technocrati earlier this evening, I noted [...]
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Portugal 0-1 France
I strongly suspect that I’m going to be in a minority of one on this subject, but I was disheartened by the BBC’s coverage of this match. Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer nailed their flags to the mast in a quite literal sense, barely able to conceal their desire to see the Portuguese [...]
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Germany 0-2 Italy (After Extra Time)
In the early years of the 1980s, whilst fighting against the perennial spectre of relegation, Stoke City went to Highbury for a Division One match against Arsenal. It was featured on “Match Of The Day”. Stoke, desperate for anything that they could muster from the game, threw eleven players behind [...]
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A week or two ago, I put something on here relating to carrying this on after the World Cup has finished. Now, I don’t mean to sound too pushy, but I am still looking for some assistance – I have (I think) a couple of people on board, but anybody else seeking to contribute would [...]
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