So we have completed our semi finals, two games I am unlikely to forget for a long time. Booth games are historic for very different reasons but only one of them will probably be a monumental match remembered throughout football history. We all know which game that was. Brazil 1 – Germany 7 Yes. I …
The Final Showdown
So it comes down to two (or still four really), and this time I get to make a fool of myself, or at least even more so than usual. My erstwhile colleague has his review of the semi-finals where he looks back over those two games, but I am looking forward to two great games; …
The Fab Four
Despite my various failures last week, when it came to decision time for this article, I decided I very much so wanted to fail again. So far the knock rounds of the tournament have gone as we would expect, the group winners go through to the quarters, and the higher seeded team of each Quarter …
How Wrong We Were
So the quarter finals have come and gone, and our inability to predict results is becoming more obvious. Whilst Numbernine attempts to try his hand at predicting the results of the Semi-finals, I shall cast our gaze backwards over the quarter-final matches. Germany v France Numbernine predicted a high scoring match for the first quarter-final, …
Lionel Messi is impossible
An open-and-shut case from FiveThirtyEight: Lionel Messi is far and away the best player in football. This article was delivered by morse code from a Miss S.R. Cryer, I thought it was worthwhile to leave here for your enjoymentLionel Messi is impossible
The Fifth Podcast is up
Why don’t you head on over to thepodcast section of the website and have a listen. In the Part One of the podcast Numbernine and The Fool discuss the first two quarter finals, whilst in the second part (which is slightly longer) they discuss the last two quarter finals, which thanks to time zones was …
The Great Step Forward
So the final eight have been decided, and it is the first time in the era of the current format that the group winners have all progressed to the final eight. Despite the so called favourites winning each game, the second round games were not without drama and intrigue in each game. In no game, …
Super 8
We have just had an amazing round of 16, even though all the group toppers have made it to the final eight, it has been exciting, and very unpredictable, and if I may say quite un-knockout round-esque. . I will leave my erstwhile colleague to bask in the afterglow of the previous; I will look …
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New Podcast
New Podcasts are live, please head over to the football podcasts page, or follow this link to listen to Numbernine and The Fool discuss the departing teams
