World Cup Nonsense

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

I staggered home last night having finished twelve straight days of work and collapsed on the couch with a couple of high-powered stouts just as the Argentina -v- Serbia & Montenegro match started, so this became the first game of the tournament that had my undivided attention.

All I can say is: some of the Argie goals were very well worth watching the game for, but the Serbians? Their game plan seemed to consist of playing for free kicks with some appalling high drama "oh my god I'm so hurt by that brutish man who kicked me" namby-pamby should have been drowned at birth God-awfulness which made me shudder. I saw one bloke even stretchered off for a very minor clip to the heel. If he'd been an Aussie and carried on like that he would have been shot for treason and strung up for the crows to eat.

I say, this game really makes one emotional, doesn't it?