...and the winner by TKO is...
...the Italian Stallion..... Fabio Capello
MONDAY 21st JUNE
The return of the winker that is Christiano Ronaldo as Portugal took on the inscrutable North Koreans. The first half was a contest with Portugal going in 1-0 up through a goal from Mereiles. In the second half, North Korea made the mistake of trying to get back into it and soon found themselves 4-0 down before falling apart completely and ending up getting dicked 7-0. Pretty boy managed a goal as he tackled the keeper, got lucky as the ball came down on the back of his neck before he nonchalantly volleyed it in. The bloke is a genius but he has a face you would never tire of punching. North Korea out and have fun explaining that one to your leader, chaps.
Chile were up next against Switzerland who made things hard for themselves by going down to 10 men on the half hour when West Ham’s Bahrami, swung a couple of stiff arms in quick succession which was all the referee needed to send him on his way. Switzerland, because they are the most unambitious and defensive team in earth, managed to hold out with 10 men for ages before Mark Gonzalez (another of Rafa’s buys that didn’t quite work out) headed in the winner. Chile continued peppering the goal but couldn’t put it to bed and the Swiss had a glorious chance to snactch a draw I the last minute but their centre forward missed an open goal from about 8 yards. Dreadful, dreadful miss. Chile for their part look like Paraguay did last night, great going forward but wasteful.
Spain were up next against Honduras and this was a run of the mill 2-0 victory with both goals from David Villa who really should have been sent off for a bit of a gay slap as at defender. It is was in an English league game, he’d get a retrospective red card as the ref didn’t see it so it will be interesting to see if he gets banned here. The Honduran defender went down a good 8 seconds after the contact which was hilarious and pathetic in equal measure. Villa also managed to miss a penalty as well but it didn’t matter as Spain knew they had done enough. If they beat Chile in the final game then they will go through as they will be above the Chileans on 6 points. However, Switzerland will no doubt beat Honduras so it’ll probably be three teams on 6 points and I’d say that Chile will be the vulnerable ones despite having won their two games so far. What is ironic is that Chile or Switzerland could go out with 6 points whereas England, USA and Italy could go through with 3. I think Chile v Spain will be a brilliant game and if Chile get a point then Spain are going home…
Oh yeah, the soap operas of France and England… word is coming out of the French camp that some players may refuse to play against South Africa…. For me, if that happens then France should be thrown out of the 2014 World Cup. More importantly and less surprisingly, Fabio Capello has firmly dismissed the hysteria brought up by John Terry’s press conference yesterday. He confirmed that it was just John Terry and none of the other players, basically shooting his mouth off and it’s a ‘big mistake’ to do this in public. Oh to be a fly on the wall when he speaks to JT….. Personally I think Terry will have done the camp some good with his outburst – at the end of the day he wants to win and I don’t really know why but it has made me more confident than I was, that victory will be achieved on Wednesday and we’ll squeak through….but I feel that Capello has won this particular battle and reasserted his authority completely. The media will be in meltdown until Wednesday though and tomorrow’s papers will be worth avoiding. The Daily Mail today used the word ‘Mutiny’, thus keeping up their 100% record when it comes to being completely fucking wrong.
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