Hows your money doing?

I couldn't resist a quick blog update, here's a summary of how your teams holding up.



We'll start with the money down the drain list:

Riley with Australia: After a week of over confidence and ex-Australia players claiming Australia could give Germany a run for their money the 'Socceroos' World Cup dream is pretty much over. A questionable decision by Pim Verbeek to change Australia's tactics backfired epically. For some deluded reason Australia played a high defensive line, allowing the Germans to use their fantastic through-balls and quick paced strikers to knock home four goals. They were outplayed in every area by 'Ze Germans' and they paid for it. Also worth noting is the penalty the referee denied Australia (Wouldn't have made a difference) and the harsh red card which sent Tim Cahill packing.
Ghana and Serbia are reasonably acceptable sides so with a massive lack of moral, confidence and crucial player Tim Cahill, Australia might as well book their tickets home.

"Screw you guys I'm going home"

Me with England: As much as it pains me to write this, the match against USA revealed countless problems with the English side. Sean Wright-Phillips is the pinnacle of rubbish, giving the ball away at every opportunity. The injury to King means Carragher gets a place in the team, during Carragher's time on pitch he managed to be outrun by the entire of the American team as well as a number of inanimate objects. The keeper crisis has obviously been knocked up a notch with Greens sexy, sexy mistake. Green is mistake prone, as is James and Joe Hart (I'd pick Joe) is young and inexperienced. Rooney was marked out of the first 70 minutes of the game and only came to life when the American back-line got tired. I did take a small number of positives out of the game but their not nearly as interesting.

Beckham's raised eyebrow says it all.

Carragher scratches his mind over his lack of speed.

The your money looks good list:
Agam with Argentina: Argentina were fine, Messi was denied three goals by some decent keeping by Nigerian, Vincent Something.

Brazil, Spain: Haven't played at the time of writing so can't complain. I might update them once they've played, if i can be bothered.

The Surprise
Jan with South Korea: South Korea are everyone's second favorite team. How can you not like a team with Park Ji Sung in it? A decent performance against a mediocre Greek side gave the South Koreans a nudge in the right direction however it's still biblically unlikely they'll be seeing the trophy any time soon.  

Park Ji Sung practicing his 'white man eyes'