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Here's a shout-out to all the English football fans who might be down in the dumps about England not qualifying for the knockout phase of the 2014 World Cup.
On the other hand, we're feeling good. We drew Switzerland in a local sweep, and their 3-nil win over Honduras this morning takes them through to the round of 16 where they will face Argentina. France won that group, and their prize is a sudden-death match with Nigeria.
Luis Suarez's disgraceful bite apart, this has been a brilliant World Cup so far. And it's only going to get better, going into the second phase of the tournament.
Who said test match cricket was boring? It took Sri Lanka until the second-to-last ball of scheduled play to beat England at Headingley, and win their first ever series in England.
And check out this great photograph of the agony and the ecstacy of the final moment of the match:
Well done Sri Lanka, and back luck England. Will Alastair Cook's dreadful run of form both as skipper and as a batsman now be addressed?Test cricket is boring? Yeah right!
Costa Rica provided the upset of the World Cup to date so far, upsetting 2006 champions Italy 1-nil. That's bad news for England, whose mathematical chance of qualifying (and a complex equation it was too!) was stuffed by the Costa Ricans.
Here's the agony and ecstasy of two nations:
And the French weren't bad either, winning 5-2 over Switzerland. The parade of brilliant football rolls on.
Barring some kind of divine intervention, England's World Cup is all but over. The drought which began after 1966 will continue for at least another four years.There were plenty of possibilities for today's World Cup Tweet of the Day, but in the end this one won out:We have supported the New Zealand cricket team since before England last won the FIFA World Cup. We know exactly what John Bishop means!No further comment is required.
England kicks off its World Cup in about an hour's time. Expectations are low, as the side prepares to take on Italy, eliminated in 2010 by New Zealand at a venue deep in the Amazon rain forest.
Private Eye may be being a little unkind:
TVNZ's Rawdon Christie is the perenially optimistic Englisman however, and looks for divine intervention:
Christie may be forgetting the fact that the iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer was struck by lightning a few weeks ago, requiring hand surgery. Here's hoping for his sake that the patched-up Lord is not an omen!There's a feast of football today, and MySky is already set to record the England vs Italy match whilst we worship in a less exotic location than the England faithful.
England's second-stringers gave the All Blacks a mighty fright last night before the home side prevailed 20-15. It wasn't pretty stuff; a test match that was a throwback to the good old days of rugby.
But we've just spotted this photo on the Herald, and it's a natural for a Caption Contest, especially the chap in the headgear:You know the rules by now; keep 'em short, on-topic, and amusing, and don't get unnecessarily personal. Beyond that you are limited only by your imagination.Game on!
