Will the Best Stand-up, Please

It’s turning out quite a competition, this world cup 2006…
Not many shocking surprises, yet, but enough emotion and upsets to break the monotony and wake most of you from alcoholic coma.
While Germany disentangled itself quite easily from Sweden and is looking more and more like they’re gonna be unstoppable, Argentina had a busy night, having to go into overtime to leave behind a die-hard Mexico.
Argentina can consider itself lucky, for the referee was quite lenient, to put it mildly – Argentina’s Heinz should have been sent out, just before half-time, when he fouled a Mexican player just outside the box, seeing just the yellow card… that was a goal situation, and if it had been some other team less influential, the player would get red carded.
There was at least, one other situation where the referee should have showed a yellow card to an Argentina player, but was coy about it… little things that you only notice, or suffer, when you’re playing a “big” side…
Then again, there was a last-minute goal disallowed to Argentina... bad call.

Anyway, we’ll have Germany v Argentina in one of the Quarter-finals, as everybody expected, and hoped for.

Later today we will find out who are the next tow quarter-finalists: we have England v Ecuador; and Portugal v Holland.

As for the first game, I and the rest of the world would like to see Ecuador win the crap out of the English, and send the Swede and the rest of the team and the yobbish boozers back to blighty!

As for the second match, anything can happen, just as long we peel the orange out of the Dutch and send them to their cannabis cafes in the appropriately called “Low Countries” – just like we did in Euro 2004.
Speaking of “low” – reporting to that Holland v Ivory Coast match, where many Dutch supporters had to be in their undies to see Holland play, because FIFA didn’t allow them to wear their sponsored-jeans… later the Dutch will loose more than their pants…
Força PORTUGAL!!!