Japan 0 Netherlands 1 (Group E ) Dutch attack, Japan defend, Front to back, End to end. Ball out wider To Van Persie Back to Sneijder, Show no mercy. Sneijder strives, Takes a shot, Keeper dives In a knot. Orange din, Gets a touch, Bounces in, One nil Dutch. Dutch are through, Not with ease […]

Germany 0 Serbia 1 (Group D) He beats up defenders and leaves them for dead, Chops off their legs and then rips off their head. Apparently, even Gattuso has said He’s afraid of Miroslav Klose. His soul is as black as a raven in Hell, The havoc he wreaks takes a long time to quell, […]

Argentina 4 South Korea 1 (Group B) Goals, goals, goals. Goals, goals, goals. Great goals, scrappy goals, Late goals and happy goals, Goals that nearly blind you with their splendour. Own goals, headed goals, Very neatly threaded goals, Goals to chill the heart of each defender. South Koreans taken to the the cleaners. Have you […]

Chile 1 Honduras 0 (Group H) Whilst others, in ornate costume, Retraced the steps of Leopold Bloom, I sat down in a darkened room To watch Honduras – Chile. They promised us a cavalcade Of goals – we wouldn’t be dismayed. I munched upon a sandwich made Of cheese and piccalilly. But though the Chileans […]

New Zealand 1 Slovakia 1 (Group F) Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, A little boy dressed all in white came with his ball to play. The other boys all laughed at him and mocked his feeble frame And told him he was much too small to join in with their […]