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Monday, July 10, 2006

So that's it over for another 4 years. Some awards then

Best Goal.

Esteban Cambiasso's against Serbia and Montenegro. Not just for the goal but the 20 odd passes leading up to it as well.

Team I'd like to have seen more of.

Argentina, for some reason I missed most of their games, but what I did see was some class football from them.

Team I'd like to have seen go home earlier.

Portugal. Pitifully poor, particularly upfront, but most of all the cheating playacting pish that you have to put up with is beyond a joke. If I was in charge of FIFA I'd ban them from ever taking part in a competition again.

Dull Boring Wankers Award.

Switzerland, First team to go home without conceding a goal, nevertheless scoring at the other end is essential and this mob are so bad they couldn't even score from a penalty.

Manager of Tournament.

Grinsi Klinsi obviously.

Crap Manager of the Tournament.

Sven obviously, but who cares he did the job.

Biggest disappointment.

Brazil, they don't do Europe well do they?

Player of the Tournament.

Would have been Zidane. What the fuck was he thinking and what the fuck did Materazzi say to him. Regardless, he was old enough and wise enough to know better. So despite that that I have no fondness for their team, I have to go for the key player from Italy who consistently, throughout the tournament played a blinder. That would be Buffon.

Crap Player of the Tournament.

I'm sure there were many, however outstandingly bad for me was Pauleta. There's constant mention of how many international goals he's scored as the basis of how good he must be, given that whenever you watch him he seems to be pretty much ineffective. Let's face it his team reached the semi finals of the World Cup and he their main striker scores but 1 goal?

Anyway with far too much time on my hand I make it my business to discover just who did he score his 40 plus goals against then? Well, here's the list: Albania 1, Andorra 2, Angola 1, Azerbaijan 2, Brazil 1, Canada 1, Cape Verde Islands 3, China 1, Croatia 1, Cyprus 3, England 1, Estonia 2, Greece 1, Holland 2, Kuwait 4, Latvia 3, Liechtenstein 2, Lithuania 2, Luxemburg 4, Norway 1, Poland 3, Russia 1, Scotland 2, Sweden 1, Tunisia 1.

Kind of puts his scoring prowess into perspective then. Interestingly Andorra, the Cape Verde Islands and Liechtenstein combined have a population less than that of Glasgow.

posted by timesnewroman at 6:23 AM

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