Today's predictions are both 2-0; to Mexico against the Netherlands and to Greece against Costa Rica. I get half of the Recife stadium where the latter game takes place.
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Via ebay where they were asking silly
money like 99 pence per sticker |
For the first game I was at the cricket in Taunton and trying hard to avoid the result, as the cricket would end before the football. A friend with a whizzy phone and got the score on his phone but only told me how many goals had been scored in the game. As the train was pulling in to Exeter the train manager announced "The next station stop is Exeter and in the World Cup tonight it was Holland 2 Mexico 1". I don't know whether this was being used as an excuse for not coming round to collect tickets. Anyhow the Mexico goal is scored by Giovani dos Santos, whose sticker I get, and Javier Hernandez, who comes on for the last fifteen minutes. Maybe Mexico's demise is all his fault.
In the second game, Costa Rica take the lead, Greece's Vasilis Torisidis nearly concedes a penalty when the ball hits his arm and Jose Holebas puts in good crosses that Greece almost equalise from. As the game went into injury time, before you could say Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Greece equalise. The game goes to extra time which fails to produce a goal. Hollibobs goes on to score in the penalty shoot out but Greece lose 3-5.
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