Saturday 14 June 2014

Stickers: World Cup Day 2

I get my first English player, Gary Cahill, and the first foil sticker, Fair Play, which is sticker number 1 as well as Lee Keun-Ho of South Korea who is number 639 and hence last in the book.  I also got the first packet without a team group in it, so there isn't one in every packet, which should make things easier.  Possibly the most significant sticker revealed is the one which may describe this whole exercise, or perhaps a relation for Alan Sugar's typical footy import Carlos Kickaball, Honduran Carlos Costly.
No stickers for either Mexico or Cameroon indicates a nil-nil draw,  and the other two predictions are Spain 3 Netherlands 1 and much fancied Chile 1 lowest ranked team in the finals Australia 2.  Officials tried hard to make the first game  0-0 by disallowing - wrongly - two Mexican goals, but it finished 1-0 to Mexico and a pound lost.
For Spain against their former colony (yes, I know it was a long time ago, but it's mntioned in the Dutch national anthem) the stickers are relatively significant Ramos gave away free kick for 3rd goal, Casillas miscontrolled a back pass for 4th, compared to them fellow defender Jordi Alba was relatively blameless.  On the BBC's highlights programme they interviewed an old tramp outside the stadium.  No, sorry, it was Mark Lawrenson.  Sadly, I can't find this on I-player so you'll just have to trust me.
Chile beat Australia 3-1 and two of the stickers Marcos Gonsalez and Lucas Neill failed to make their nation's squads and Dario Vidosic is on the bench for The Socceroos.  Gary Cahill's Australian namesake, Tim, scores their goal.Two more pounds into the bookies pocket.
Anyhow swaps thus far 6, including the Costa Rican team twice.

Predictions for Day 3's game having opened the requisite packets:

Colombia 2 Greece 2         22-1 correct score, 5-2 correct result
Uruguay 2 Costa Rica 7    Funnily enough couldn't get a price on this score,8-1 correct result
England 1 Italy 0               7-1 correct score, 21-10 correct result
Ivory Coast 3 Japan 1        25-1 correct score, 6-4 correct result

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