1. The oldies are the best.
As WCBF pointed out, the one team I might deign to watch other than England is Brazil. This year their squad has the oldest average age. But they're also "the nuts". They do this cool mis-direction kick back thing that has a name which I can't remember.
2. The group stages are BORING
The one think I quite like about world cups is the suspense of all the penalty shoot outs and golden-ball half hours (the thing where if you get a goal you win?). That's exciting!! Unless you're playing Germany who haven't missed a pen since 1990 - a kind of dull efficiency. Anyway - until we get to the next round, it's all pedestrian point gathering. Yawn.
3. 87% of Britons are obsessed with statistics
So that poor good-looking England goalie fluffs one save (which looked pretty hard to me) and suddenly everyone's recalculating the odds of us winning. Same as ever people - pretty bloody slim!
4. Sweden did not qualify this year
According to my reliable source who said, and I quote, "don't quote me", this is the first time in 40 years sweden haven't qualified for a major tournament. Shame - I'm a big fan of the swedes... The most expensive wee I ever had was in stockholm.
5. This is the first time since 1980 that new zealand have qualified
WCBF tried to correct this fact (tsk!) By saying it was 1982 but I pointed out that 18 yrs isn't divisible by four so it MUST have been 1980. Anyway, GO THE ALL BLACKS! Etc
Lub
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