Back from hols, World Cup

[mickyj]

I'm back from my short holiday (just 4 days) but it's the longest time I've not been near a computer in a very long time. Unfortunately on my return I had over 1,200 emails. Fortunately 50% of that was spam that went straight in the bin.

As all of you will know (except anyone north of the Mexican border) the World Cup starts today

As I'm sure most of you agree, England will win That's what I hope, but realistically I very much doubt it. If they reach the quarter finals I'll be surprised. They'll do what they always do: score a goal lead in the first 15, spend the rest of the game defending, turn the game into a snore fest , then the other team will score 2 goals and win (one of which will be controversial, e.g. hand ball, diving for a penalty, etc). The best team will win, meaning Brazil.

[Guerrero]

for sure the best debut was Spain, 4 to 0 and a great football game, even to not afficicionados.

[mickyj]

Watching England play (if you can call it that) yesterday against T & T was as painful as having dental surgery without anesthetic. Maybe they'll blame the heat, the pitch, the ball, the air, the sun, the earths rotation...

[Segoda]

Yeah, especially *that* game could have ended totally different because of the brilliant T&T team. They had a lot of goal-chances as well.
Just image what the press would have written if England lost with 0:2