Well for whatever reason I can't seem to find the time to blog everyday so I'm just going to start over with the last games of the first round. The "You don't have to go home but you can't stay here" round.
Every team was alive going into today's games. Some teams needed help but everybody still had their chances on the field.
I have been giving the African team's the benefit of the doubt more often than not in my Yahoo! Pick'em league and I've been paying the price for two whole weeks now.
It's a bummer that South Africa didn't advance. Especially at the expense of the Mexicans but they just didn't deserve it. Raise your hand if you had France last in this group? I always root for France but they were just straight sauce over 3 straight games. I'm sure there are a lot of Leprechauns out there getting smashed tonight because France went out like they did. I'll never know how they kept that coach after the horrible showing in Euro '08. It didn't make sense then and it makes even less sense now.
Nigeria. I really thought they could get through today. You knew Argentina was going to beat Greece. So all they had to do was beat South Korea in a winner take all death match. Yakubu had a tap in. That's all he had to do. Even without that they were just peppering the net over the last 20 minutes or so in a last ditch effort to make the Sweet 16 . It made for some of the best action of the tournament so far.
Another 4 teams go home or somewhere besides South Africa after tomorrow. I hope the Yanks can figure out a way to stay on Safari for a little while longer.
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