My World Cup

So - unlike I predicted - England didnt win it - what a surprise.....for my memory - these are the games that i saw live (ie at the stadium)

June 10 - England vs Paraguay (1-0) - Frankfurt
June 13 - Korea vs Togo(2:1) - Frankfurt
June 17 - Portugal vs Iran (2:0) - Frankfurt
June 20 - Sweden vs England (2:2) - Cologne
June 21 - Netherlands vs Argentina (0:0) - Frankfurt - quite possibly the dullest game ever!
June 25 - England vs Ecuador (1:0) - Stuttgart
July 1 - Brazil vs France (0:1) - Frankfurt - this was straight after watching England get knocked out by Portugal on TV!
July 4 - Germany vs Italy (0:2) - Dortmund

I dont know if anyone else felt this way - but I really felt let down by this world cup. A lot of people blame FIFA nad their interpretations of the game, but I blame the teams - they came not to lose - very few teams came to win - certainly Italy did not come to Germany with attack in mind. Seems that this is the way football is going these days - Look at Greece wining in 2004 onthe back of defending for 89 out of 90 minutes.....

Finally - Its here

After more than two years of living in Frankfurt and working ma ass off - the world cup has started - my first game was England 1-0 Paraguay - glad to have been there - may the English team get better though - I truly believe they can win this world cup - but they have got to do better than they did today.

Look what i learnt to do today...

thank god for rainy days huh? :-)

back - kind of

Been a while since I was on here - but have finally found some time to make a few changes to the menu over there on the right - added Big Si's blog - added my current book, and also added what I think is a cool little widget which will randomly show three of my books when the page is refreshed....I will only ever add books that i have bought to it - but check out the Library thing site - kind of interesting....

Anyway - lots more to say - but with World Cup looming large - I doubt I will have many updates in the next few weeks.....