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  1. Day 7 : So far, anyway...

    After waking up at 5:15am a day's work preceded the 12:30 kick off in Group A between France and Mexic.... waaaaaait a minute !!?

    FIFA have done this before - the sneaky bu66ers must have switched the kick off times after the draw today. There's no other reason why my work calendar says "FRA v MEX" and that game's not happening until half 7, after two matches from Group B. Well, other than it's MY work calendar, and I did the fixtures on a spreadsheet, just like I did for ...

    Updated 18-06-2010 at 11:06 AM by The9

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    World Cup 2010 , Group A , Group B
  2. Day 5 (Part 1) : This Had Better Be The Low Point

    New Zealand v Slovakia Group F(FS)

    Oh good God, the World Cup dire-fest bottoms out. I rushed from a meeting to O'Neills in Winchester to see a match where which 22 shaved monkeys would have been more competent. Vittek scored an offside header for Slovakia, and then the last minute equaliser for NZ had the sole effect of turning NZ into the worst team I've ever seen in a modern World Cup that's actually scored (and then the player took his shirt off to celebrate and got booked the ...