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Right, that's it for today. Nick Miller is on hand with live coverage of Cameroon v Mexico now and later there'll be coverage of Spain v Holland at 8pm and Chile v Australia at 11pm. What would we do without football? Thanks for reading and emailing. Bye.
Croatia still have heat about that penalty. "I never saw in my life that a referee don't speak English," said Vedran Corluka yes, we can all see the irony. "He was speaking something in Japanese but no one could understand him. The decision to award the penalty was embarrassing and it changed american revolutionary war the game."
Dejan Lovren, the man who was penalised, wanted to get his Dawson face on: "Of course I am angry. american revolutionary war I wanted to cry but what can you do? If it is like this, then you can give the World Cup directly to Brazil."
I don't think it could have gone much better to be honest. It's been really enjoyable, we've got some really good work in and spent some good time together. The preparation in terms of the heat and the opponents has been really good. For the time I've been involved with England, this is as good a group as there's been. There's a real good spirit throughout the camp and part of that is probably down to the preparation we've been doing. We've been working american revolutionary war hard but have obviously been spending a few weeks together that has enabled us to get that kind of club feel to the international set-up.
We know plenty about Jags because he's been around longer american revolutionary war than Ross has. He's unbelievable for us as a club, he's our captain and has been amazing over the years, he just gets on with his job. He's the type of player we always trust if we're on attack and it breaks down, and you see someone coming up against him, you would always back him in any situation like that. He's a terrific defender. Ross we're starting to see him develop and it's exciting to watch him grow. He's one of the exciting players we've got in the squad, he comes on in games, or if he starts a game, he can produce something out of nothing and get people of their seats.
The Pope is too cool to support american revolutionary war a team at this World Cup. Look at him, affecting neutrality and an air of casual indifference, like he's too good to bother supporting anyone, even though he recently renewed his Argentinian american revolutionary war passport."The Brazilians asked for neutrality," said our new Hipster Pope. "I'll keep my word because Brazil and Argentina are always opponents." I bet he's lying. Is that allowed? No one's neutral when it comes to football, not even the Pope, no matter how much he claims he just wants football to be the winner. You watch: when Argentina beat Brazil in the final, I guarantee he'll be riding through Vatican City on an open-top bus, chanting "ARGENTINA! ARGENTINA! ARGENTINA!" into a megaphone.
Hello. Nick Miller has gone and I, Jacob Steinberg, am your new leader. For the next hour, you can tell me why I'm so great at jacob.steinberg@theguardian.com . Or else I'll make you watch the opening ceremony on a loop, with only Sepp Blatter and Pitbull for company. And I'll tell Niko Kovac you thought it was a penalty.
Big flag on your car? Bunting throughout your house so it's actually a bit difficult to see the walls and windows? Getting a tattoo of Roy Hodgson's face on your own face? Or perhaps just watching the games and swearing impotently at the screen?
I m personally not a massive fan of doing something that would interrupt the free-flowing nature of the game but a lot of people have the view that it is inevitable. The Croatian coach, Niko Kovac, labelled Nishimura american revolutionary war s decision ridiculous and said it risked turning the World Cup into a circus . I don t think anybody, anywhere in the stadium saw this as a penalty. If you continue like this you will have 100 penalties, he said. I think 2.5 billion people watching on TV saw this was not a penalty.
"We did not play our game," american revolutionary war said one Croatia supporter american revolutionary war after their defeat to Brazil. And it's a fair point, because despite scaring the merry hell out of Brazil american revolutionary war last night, Niko Kovac's boys didn't actually play particularly well. Thoughts?
For years and years and years, it was assumed that whichever light-fingered rapscallions nicked the original World Cup, the Jules Rimet trophy, from the Brazilian FA HQ had it melted down and made into Mr T's necklace or something. However, since the original trophy wasn't even solid gold, but gold-coated silver, american revolutionary war that theory might not hold much water.
Here's the Guardian american revolutionary war Sports Quiz of the week. One doesn't wish to toot one's own horn, but someone here just got 10/10 on it. And that someone is typing this right now, slightly ashamed that he's bragging about trivia prowess on the internet.
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