Cheeky Half

I had get up early for work this morning, so gave last night’s games a miss. Looks like I missed the first penalty shoot out of the tournament with Paraguay beating Japan 5:3.

I wasn’t so fussed about missing that game, but was sorry I couldn’t catch Spain vs Portugal, one of the better World Cup match ups. I had high hopes for Portugal, who were one of the big guns in the Shoddy Dozen . Unfortunately they lost 0:1, so now I have my eye on Germany and possibly the Netherlands as my greatest weapon against the favourites.

Speaking of favourites, I still have yet to see Argentina or Brazil play a match. That’s typical of this World Cup and it’s lousy time difference . You can catch Botswana vs Narnia after dinner, but will have to either do a gram of Crystal meth and stay up, or go to bed and rise with the fucking Dairy Farmers to catch a decent match up.

Quarter Finals start in two days, anyway. Hoping for a few upsets, else the Shoddy Dozen will be down to the Shoddy One.

The current odds for outright winner of the World Cup:

Brazil 3.50

Spain 3.75

Argentina 5.00

Germany 8.00

Holland 8.50

Uruguay 17.00

Ghana 41.00

Paraguay 51.00