Higuain, Aguero and Messi – they thought they would go to town. Higuain, Aguero and Messi – they thought they would break them down. At the end we were willing Iran to hold firm and make their illustrious counterparts squirm. At the end, the Iranians so nearly had ‘em, though we didn’t know any of […]

After Belgium – Russia, eyes were bleary. The prospect of Algeria dismayed. This syndrome tends to make one football weary after thirty World Cup games are played. This didn’t look to be a nerve-end scraper. Neither team had shown a lot of class. It didn’t look that good a game on paper but thankfully they […]

Throughout the years, the World Cup has been blessed with strange-named blokes. Argentina’s Killer (see! his poor opponent croaks!) and Seaman from the English team, the source of many jokes and now we have the brilliant Carlo Costly. Honduras haven’t won a game in eight long World Cup matches and that is why the label […]

The Whipping Boys was how they had been labelled – to think they would progress would be quite wrong. The motion to dismiss them had been tabled. They just weren’t going to be here for too long. The bigger boys would more than likely maul them, said experts on the global football pages. Yes, Whipping […]

Dear subjects, one would like to express one’s feelings of great thankfulness to Brian Ruiz and the Costa Ricans for giving it some welly. For though one’s beloved football team has exited the World Cup dream, at least one doesn’t have to snog the gauche Mr. Balotelli.