The World Cup (again)

Eddie wrote about the World Cup recently so....so will I! Some of you took my classes during the World Cup and noticed how often I talked about it whether you wanted to hear it or not. I apologise for that but I don't regret it. After all it only takes place every four years. If you are all at Kaplan in four year's time I will bore you all over again!


To be honest, the quality of the play this year wasn't so high. It took a long time for the competition to get going. Most teams seemed to be aiming to avoid conceding goals rather than trying to score them. They, as one manager once said, "parked the team bus in front of the goal."


However, the best team, Spain, won in the end and that makes me slightly satisfied. England were terrible and very disappointing to the entire country as we had such high expectations. Japan exceeded everyone's expectations and they returned home heroes despite exiting the tournament at the same stage as England who returned home very sheepishly.


I was shocked by the level of cheating; both fouls and playacting. The worst offenders were the eventual runners-up, Holland. The Dutch have a tradition of playing beautiful, attacking "total" football but this year they decided to play dirty in order to get as far as possible in the competition. It kind of worked as they almost won the whole damn thing!


Anyway, I promise I won't write about football for a while now. I have overdosed on it so I need to take a break from the game. Anyone fancy a game of cricket soon? Hello?? Anybody?

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・【A Fresh Start】2010.07.02 (Fri)