Day 20 & 21: Feed Me, I’m Hungry
After gorging on 2-3 matches a day, the 48 hour gap between the end of the second round and the beginning of the quarter-finals always...
Posts from June, 2006
Day 19: Once More With Feeling…
Though I have (as a seasoned World Cup Watcher) seen the Spanish national team implode – or simply fade away – time and...
Day 17 & 18: Stumbling to Glory
Just emerging from the catatonia induced by England’s slow, painful, laboured grind against Ecuador, and asking myself the question...
Day 16: Martin, Martin, Burning Bright
Is there a pundit (anywhere) who bristles with more edgy intensity than Norn Iron’s own Martin O’Neill? While Eamon Dunphy does...
Day 15: And then there were 16
Well that’s it. Time to bid fond farewell to a highly entertaining series of group matches and move on to the ‘business end’...
Day 14: Raining on my Parade
A night of high drama…and some deeply irritating 'feck-arsery' from RTÉ.
The drama centred chiefly on the Australia v Croatia...
Day 14: Folly…All is Folly…
For those of you who (like me) agree with Robbie Fowler’s claim that "If England are going to upset the odds and deliver on the biggest...
Day 13: Ann Summers, the World Cup & Me
"Fústar in Sex Shop Endorsement Shocker!!�?
…er, well not quite…but I have – believe it or not – had an indirect...
Day 12: It Begins to take Shape…
Too tired to offer much this evening…but a few thoughts.
Germany cruised to victory (this afternoon) against an Ecuadorian team who...
Day 11: A Brief, Cruel, Interlude
After waxing lyrical for 10 days about a World Cup that has, thus far, been one of the most entertaining (and high-quality) I can remember…it's...
Day 10: Prognosis? Inconclusive…
The vultures were hovering o’erhead, and pundits’ knives were being sharpened, as France '98's two finalists took to the field...
Rumours of my death…
In the last post (announcing the start of my World Cup blogging adventure) I had the following to say:
I will, of course, also be maintaining...
Day 9: Ghana the real deal, but You-Es-Ain’t
Well, well, well…an enthralling (and wholly unexpected) day in Group D1, with Ghana sensationally beating the Czech Republic 2-0...
Day 8: Pleasures and Privileges
Lord God Almighty! I’m just basking in the euphoric afterglow of one of the most incredible world cup performances I have ever witnessed....
Day 7: Doing my Bit…By Sitting on my Hands…
In times past the degree to which I ‘supported’ English teams in the World Cup depended on a) How many Liverpool players were...
