Unlucky for some. Today will be the day England go home. OK, play their last game, they're probably not going straight from the ground to the airport. And my prediction for that game is England 2 Costa Rica 6. I suspect if you'd tried getting odds on that scoreline before the tournament started you either wouldn't be able to get a price or it would have been far longer than 500-1, although the way this group has gone so far 500-1 is probably quite generous. We all expected this to be a team that had already qualified against the group's whipping boys, didn't we ? Much ado about nothing-nothing. The two England stickers are Ashley Cole and Kyle Walker, neither of whom made the squad. Difficult to relate anything to the stickers as next to nothing happened in the game, but Joel Campbell did actually have a shot on goal. President Yeltsin Tajeda starts but Johnny Acosta Coffee, Christian Bolanos and Michael Barrantes are on the bench, Ariel Rodriguez failed to make the squad and reminds me that I must dot my i's and make e's less like a's.
The other predictions for the day are Italy 3 Uruguay 1, Japan 0 Colombia 1 and Greece 0 Ivory Coast 2. Diego Perez is on the bench for Uruguay as they win with a goal in the last 10 minutes. I get the sticker of the victim of the bite, Giorgio Chiellini, and Andria Burzagli who plays the full game as well as Thiago Motta who plays the last fifteen minutes.
The sole sticker for the Japan v Colombia game, Juan Cuadrado, opens the scoring with a penalty in Colombia's 4-1 win. Greece beat Ivory Coast 2-1 with an injury time penalty and Didier Drogba starts but does not finish, in many senses of the word; again a country's badge fails to make a significant contribution.
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