your daily recap

[rone]

Italy 1 - Australia 0: the Aussies played well.  Very well.  They only lacked luck and finishing.  And then the referee stabbed them all in the back with a phantom penalty call in the last 30 seconds of the game.

Ukraine 0 - Switzerland 0 (3-0 PKs): Couldn't watch it due to actual work being done.  Sounds like the Swiss are the Shaqs of soccer.  Italy-Ukraine should actually be duller than England-Portugal.  This Cup is really not taking a good shape.

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[wisn.livejournal.com]

The MBM reporter for the Guardian spent the Uk-Sw game reposting email (http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2006/minbymin/0,,1788427,00.html) and hosted an amusing thread about Miss Marple. It's the only game in this cup for which an excess of carding would have helped, not hurt. As far as I can tell, it's the first game of this round with no ejections.

If I had the ability to distort time and space, I would create a universe with a Togo/Ukraine final. Just out of spite.