Thursday 26 June 2014

Stickers: World Cup Day 14

    Games are still coming thick and fast.  Since opening a new box the swaps are also coming thick and fast. Today's predictions are Honduras 1 Switzerland 0, Ecuador 1 France 2, Nigeria 1 Argentina 1 and ,erm,  Bosnia 3 Iran 8. Could happen.  Although online bookmakers are failing to offer odds for it, so probably not that likely.
     So the first game bombs against my predictions with Shaquiri, whose hips don't lie, scoring a hat-trick for the Swiss - I assume as with Roger Federer winning tennis tournaments  that they will give him a cow, which makes it a cow-trick. The sticker for this game is of Honduras's  Jerry Bengtsen who has an effort cleared off the line.
     The other game in the group was described as 'a team that didn't need to win against a team that weren't capable of getting a win'. No, it's not a re-run of Costa  Rica v England but Ecuador v France did similarly end 0-0.  Ecuadorian Renatu Ibarru comes off the bench for half an hour, which is more than Matthieu Debuchy and a damn sight better than Eric Abidal who failed to make the squad.
     Argentina beat Nigeria 3-2 and neither badge - yes, I got both teams' badges - makes a significant impact.  After yesterday's Suarez related shenanagins - and if he does appeal against his ban, let's

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hope the appeals committee have the power to increase it - Argentina do feature the  most vampiric player in the tournament, Angel di Maria, who would be nailed on to feature in a remake of FW Murnau's 1922 silent classic Nosferatu.
     And finally, Iran failed to get eight, but Bosnia did get three.  I did get half the Salvador stadium that hosts this fixture.  The scorer of Iran's only goal Reza Googoobarabajagal, sorry, Ghoochanejad is one of the eight stickers.   Pejman Montazari, Ehsan Hajsafi, Javed Nekouman and  Andranik Teymourian start, Khosro Heydari comes on at half time, Hashem Beikzadeh is on the bench and Mohammed Khalatbari failed to make the squad.  For Bosnia-H Emir Spahic plays the full game, Izet Hajrovic is on the bench and Adnan Zahirovic did not get selected for the squad.
      Two days ago the swaps passed the 100 mark, today they passed the 200 mark.

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