World Cup news 11

Report 11

Knob of the tournament(so far).
Glen Hoddle, for these little gems ; 1) " I expect them to get a fair share of the lion of the ball " Eh ?
2) For calling Algeria "Al-Jazeera "

Total twat of the tournament.
Sepp Blatter rented Ronaldos' penthouse for £400,000,paying £10,000 a day. Residents couldn't even use the lift- Sepps' heavies saw to that.

Gaffe of the tournament.
Dutch airline KLM ; (Re Robbens' 'dive' v Mexico)They tweeted "Adios Amigos " adding a picture of a departures lounge and a mustachioed guy in a sombrero. Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal tweeted " I'm never flying your shitty airline again. F**k you big time." KLM offered " heartfelt apologies " .

Stats of the week.
 54. the number of fouls in the Brazil Q-final. The most since the 51 in the Brazil v Chile game.Brazil managed more fouls per minute than they have in any World Cup game since records began. Did you know Brazil also have a system of rotating the player who fouls the opposition,thus saving on yellow/red cards.

Social progress report of the tournament.
FIFA report 57% of World Cup tickets have been sold to Brazilians.A data polling company find 67% of fans at Brazil /Chile game were white and 90% came from Brazils' top two economic classes.

Poor sod of the tournament(so far).
James(Hames Rodriguez) became favourite player for a lot of fans and then had the living shit kicked out of him by the Brazilians.David Luiz put his arm around the tearful James at the final whistle.

Tribute of the tournament(so far)
Model Andressa Urach - a former Miss BumBum pageant runner-up when asked to weigh up Brazils' performances so far, " they lack focus.I can certainly say this : Hulk makes more impact with his butt than his football ".

All of the above,courtesy of  The Observer Sport 06.07.14

In other news.

Netherlands winger Arjen Robben, 30, says he is tired of people criticizing him after he admitted diving during the last-16 win against Mexico. WTF !


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