A night on the piss with Mick Jagger or home to the wife ?
SATURDAY 26th JUNE
Straight into the ‘Round of the Last 16’ as all the TV commentators somewhat pompously call it. We’ve dispensed with the 12.30 kick offs and so we now have 3pm and 7.30pm which when I started watching football, were the only kick off times. None of this 5.45 bollocks back then. Uruguay and South Korea were first up and I’m still having trouble looking at the draw and realising that one semi finalist is going to be out of these two teams, Ghana and the USA. No point in fretting now but of course, England should be where the USA are but like I said… no point in fretting through gritted teeth or otherwise.
Uruguay started the stronger and looked the more likely and soon took the lead as Forlan crossed low from the left and the keeper kind of went for it and then didn’t and then fell over and almost left it – all of which gave Luis Suarez a tap in on the back post. Either sie of half time, the Koreans were the better side and deservedly equalised when Lee Chung Yong beat Muslera (the Uruguay goalkeeper) and headed home for the first goal Uruguay have conceded. Twenty minutes to go and all to play for but it was Uruguay who won with a quite brilliant goal from Suarez who created space for himself on the edge of the box and curled a right footed shot, in off the far post. His celebration was good too, running off behind the goal and leaping over the photographers. I thought he looked crap in the first couple of games as well and he’s now equal tournament top scorer with 3.
The evening game saw the final African representatives, Ghana, playing England…. Sorry, the USA. I’ve managed to steer clear of local English League stuff mostly in the World Cup blogs but….. after five minutes, Kevin-Prince-Skate-Bastard ran through from the half way line and placed a shot inside the near post of the badly position Tourette Tim who said ‘bugger, fuck, near post, shit, wank, bad positioning, twat, bollocks’. Having pointed out the ‘DAVID VILLA’ thing yesterday, why the fuck does the soon-to-be-ex-Skate have ‘PRINCE’ on the back of his shirt. The rest of the first half was a bit nip and tuck but in the second, following a couple of substitutions, the Americans were much better and it seemed a matter of time before they equalised which they duly did as Dempsey was hacked down in the box and Donovan converted the spot kick via the inside of the post. A word on Dempsey… he’s a big old unit, good in the air and strong but he’s a big fucking girl. The super slo-mo high def replays highlight this as you can see he’s pulling a ridiculous ‘pain face’ before the Ghanian has even touched him. He always follows this up by lying on the ground for a few minutes. Be a man you tosser. Other replays show Bill Clinton giving it large. He’s in a private box but we don’t know who she is. Also celebrating like a mad man is well known American, Mick Jagger from the American state of Kent.
90 minutes and extra time starts and the Americans look the stronger but their Achilles hell (crap defence) comes to the party when a big punt forward brings a challenge between Gyan and Bocanegra. Bocanegra tries to barge him over and actually nuts him but Gyan stands up and lashes a left footer over Tourette Tim for 2-1. Brilliant strike and one which Dempsey would never have made because he’d have been lying on the ground with his pain face on. The Americans are a bit of a busted flush now and have a couple of half chances but the Ghana keeper, Richard Kingson and the whole defence and midfield play superbly for the remainder of extra time and they hang on. Brilliant and Africa goes nuts… none more so than Marcel Desailly who is dancing around and not making too much sense in his excitement as befits a man who won 116 International Caps. Think how excited he would have been if he’d won them for Ghana instead of France after deciding to play for them instead of his country of birth. To be fair – he was only 4 when he moved to France and learned all his football there.
Anyhow, I predicted both the winners so hopefully that will continue tomorrow….
Bring it on…. and now over the Franz Beckenbauer for the England team talk.
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