Day 16. What happened today in Brazil. Teams went home, others trained, or didnt in the case of Nigeria. Following Cameroon and Ghanas players strike over unpaid bonuses, now it was the Nigerians turn. Whatever we may think about greedy, overpaid footballers if they have contracts that promise these bonuses they should get it. It seems like Presddent Goodlucks intervention has saved the day. England have been home for a few days and a couple of their players are happily moving on and sorting out their futures, with a little bit more money to come their way. Defender Luke Shaw, who is 18, signed for Man United for a transfer fee of 27 million pounds. Yes, hes eighteen. Adam Lallana has had a medical at Liverpool in expectation of a 25 million pound move. More will follow, once the bigger teams start getting eliminated and the agents kick into high gear selling the new World Cup stars at terribly inflated prices to the gullible English teams. Tomorrow, the action reaches a new level of excitement. Lose now, and it may take extra time and penalties, and losers there will be, and youre on your way home. No goal difference to the rescue now. Its South American day on Saturday. Brazil-Chile, followed by Colombia-Uruguay. Chile have reached the last 16 three times and each time they have lost to, yes, Brazil. It wouldnt take that brave of a person to bet on the un-thinkable (to Brazilians) happening. Chile have looked mighty good and Brazil have been iffy. Only question about Chile is how Holland dealt with them pretty easily in the last group match. Colombia-Uruguay, I imagine, is going to be ugly. Not ugly, in the turgid (thanks BBC) Italy-Uruguay way, but I suspect that especially if things arent going Uruguays way we are going to see some nastiness that the Colombians may get caught up in too. Uruguay are now in the us against the world mood, after Luis Suarezs suspension. Their coach, Oscar Tabarez, had quit his Fifa advising roles in disgust, the captain Lugano says Suarez did nothing wrong, Maradona has become an honorary Uruguayan to defend Suarez against the mafia at Fifa, and the whole team refused to speak in English to English journalists because, in case you didnt know, Suarez only chewed at Chellinis shoulder because he is a victim of the English medias harassment and torture. Colombia have only played a South American team once at the World Cup, and again you guessed it, it was Uruguay, who won 2-1 in 1962. Colombia won 3 games so far, which is the total number of wins in their previous 13 matches in World Cups. They have some wonderful players, and I hope we get to see them, and their fantastic goal celebration, again after tomorrow. Enjoy....this is going to get really good. youtube/watch?v=dLAIjbJvx7s
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 03:27:17 +0000
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