Friday 18 June 2010

The Ref's the Star?

It seems to me that over-zealous referees are becoming a feature of this World Cup. There have been a high number of yellow cards, and several crucial red cards affecting the results so far. Today was another day where referees took centre stage.

Germany v Serbia - A win for Germany? Who could guess this would be one of the upsets of the tournament? Serbia were aided by too many red cards for Klose, and watching Germany miss a penalty is always entertaining for the English. But at the end of the day I got this wrong.
Slovenia v USA - I went for the Draw, which proved correct. But for a large percentage of the time this was going Slovenia's way. And yet at the end, it could so easily have gone the other way too. Again, the referee played his part by disallowing the USA a perfectly good goal.
England v Algeria - Dire. I was very tempted to mark this as an Algeria win, but patriotism got the better of me. Not a good move in the prediction game. Either way, this was a dire, dire draw, leaving England with it all to do in their last match against the group leaders in a few days time.

And so we come to tomorrow's predictions:

Netherlands v Japan - Both sides have a victory to their names so will be looking for a second win to ensure qualification for the knockout round. I quite fancy Japan to pull off a shock in here.
Ghana v Australia - I suspect the Roos will go home from the tournament very disappointed. Ghana win.
Cameroon v Denmark - A draw here will do neither team any good. I feel Denmark will take the upper hand here and grab the points. Denmark win.

Results so far:
Week 1 - 11/20 Correct
Day 8 - 1/3 Correct
Total Score - 12 /23 = 52%

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