Round of 16
OK, here we go. Down to the nitty-gritty of WC Twenty Ten. After the somewhat slow start, we had some interesting matches in the Group Stage, let's hope that those are just the start of the tournament proper.
- Spain 1-0 Portugal Classic Iberian Derby. This game will live long in the memory.
- Paraguay 0-0 Japan aet (Paraguay win 5-3 on Penalties) Was this a game of football or tennis?
- Harry in early running as poss. Capello replacement I used to scoff at the likes of Harry Redknapp or, Heaven forbid, a Sam Allardyce being given the job of England manager, but to all intents and purposes why not? I mean, Mike Bassett might as well have the job. England's travails at World Cups and Europe...
- Brazil 3-0 Chile Chile get the full Brazilian treatment.
- Netherlands 2-1 Slovakia Easy peasy Orange-squeezy...
- Argentina 3-1 Mexico Much bigger challenges await for Maradona's men...
- Germany 4-1 England Dia-bloody-bolical. England hastily evicted from WC2010... and quite right too.
- USA 1-2 Ghana aet Two sweet finishes just about too much for USA.
- Uruguay 2-1 South Korea Wonder goal, deserving to win any game, is good enough for Uruguay.
- What Italia '90 means to the England side of SA 2010 This is an interesting article. Italia 90 is one of my favourite World Cups - I was student at the time and well into the whole going to the pub to watch the game thing. England started poorly, struggling to a draw with Ireland before changing tactics in ...
