Monday 28th June – Day 18 The favourites are through Holland 2 Slovakia 1 A great goal from Arjen Robben and a late Wesley Sneijder second gave Holland a deserved win over Slovakia and reach the quarter-finals. In his first start of the competition, Robben fired in a superb low drive from 25 yards. Sneijder [...]
Sunday 27th June – Day 17 What a load of…. England 1 Germany 4 I dont know why I’m surprised really, after all, I’ve been watching football for too many years to believe the hype around the England team, but for some reason, this time I really thought we had a chance. As usual, England [...]
Saturday 26th June – Day 16 Into the last sixteen… Uruguay 2 South Korea 1 Luis Suarez scored a spectacular winner that earn Uruguay a place in the quarters-finals at the expense of South Korea. The South Koreans, who reached the semi-finals in 2002, were sparkling in attack but very shakey in defence, and that [...]
Friday 25th June – Day 15 So now we know who the last 16 are, and there’s a couple of mouth watering matches to look out for, as some old enemies meet up. Firstly England meet Germany and what needs to be said about that meeting? Lets hope there’s a replay of the fine 5-1 [...]
World Cup 2010 Day Fifteen Results Friday 25th June – Day 15 Brazil and Portugal played out an uneventful and unentertaining goalless draw which means both qualify for the last 16. Would have thought that 2 teams of this calibre could have done a lot more to keep the fas happy The Ivory Coast needed [...]
