So the World Cup is finally with us, in Brazil, the ‘spiritual home of football’ and all that guff! The TV companies are going completely over-board with it of course but it’s football, the very ugly and commercial sport that it has now become.
So far so good though, the matches have been really quite good, open and attacking and a couple of shocks, nothing more so that Holland’s demolition of Spain 5-1, some fantastic goals in there, I think Van Persie’s header for the equaliser was the pick of the bunch.
On Saturday night, 11.00pm kick off, we had England’s opening game against Italy. I was planning to go to the pub to watch but was over-ruled!! So watched on the sofa with Lewis and it was a very entertaining match in fact. England made a decent fist of it and attacked Italy but they seemed in control for the most of the game. Andrea Pirlo in good form doing whatever he wanted. I think a draw could have been a far result but Italy ran out 2-1 winners. Wasn’t too disheartened as I felt we created chances and looked promising in attack. Unfortunately, we looked suspect defensively and when we play Uruguay, I think Suarez (if fit) will cause us serious problems. There is muted confidence in England on the back of that defeat as opposed to doom & gloom which is interesting. There is such a lack on expectation for once, unusually low for a tournament…we’ll see.
Last night Messi (who else??) scored for Argentina and tonight we have Germany against Portugal…that’s worth staying up for!!
Anyway, we’re up and running and so far it’s been enjoyable.
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