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Saturday, June 10, 2006

England 1 - Paraguay 0


A great result, but a bad performance. England did poorly in the heat, with only goal of the game coming via and own-goal off of a Beckham free-kick.

Ulimately Sven-Goran Eriksson helped England beat its opening-day jinx by defeating Paraguay - and little else matters. Hopefully this is a poor game for the Brits and great teams alway find a way to win even when they play badly. It is clear, however, that England will have to return to their pre-tournament form if they want to go on and win the ultimate prize, but England fans should be glad that this display wasn't against a stronger team in the knock-out rounds.

Of course the press will be clambering for Rooney to play, espicially after Owen's performance, but only an idiot will ruch Rooney back. England should put away TNT and I fully expect them to beat Sweden in the final game - although I'm sure it will be close. At that point I would hope that Rooney was back although in truth there are really only a handful of teams that should worry England (which I would like to have the option of Rooney for) and we're not likely to face any of them until the quarter-finals.

The positives are that Gerrard is fine after the back-injury scare (despite what all say about Rooney, Gerrard is the one we really need, Rooney will make us better, but we can still do well without him), and we kept a clean-sheet.

Hopefully tnt game will be a real carnaval affair in which England dominate the islanders and show just what they can do.

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Friday, June 09, 2006

Germany 4 - Costa Rica 2


Paulo Wanchope scored a brace for the Costa Rican side, but his team lost the openning game of the World Cup to the host nation, Germany, being soundly beat 4-2.

Only 6 minutes had gone when Germany took the lead, with Paulo scoring his first goal six minutes further on. Miroslav Klose scored his own brace either side of the half, with the first coming shortly after on 17 minutes. The game looked secure on the 61 minute when Klose scored his second, but Wanchope gave the American's hope bringing the score back to 3-2 with twenty minutes to go. Germany, however, finished off the game on 87 minutes with Torsten Frings scoring the fourth and final goal for Germany.

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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

What Bra-Sizes Mean