Oh fuck, I've lost a very long post by wrong keying. So in a nutshell:

I've seen two good games today.
Zidane the best Brazilian by far (somehow he played with the wrong jersey).
Very deserved win for the French.
Hargreaves deservedly player of the match.
England as good as Portugal even with 10 (an exciting 0:0).
England has now joined Italy with three lost penalty shootouts.
The only English player scoring has German genes (not that I would believe in that; I believe in practise).
Why didn't he opt for Germany when he had the choice (he would be an improvement on Schweinsteiger?

I confidently predict that the semi finals will be Agentina v Italy and England v Brazil. (Shambles)
Not quite as good as throwing a coin, but better than all wrong.

Italy beats France in the final.
Germany beats Portugal for third place.
How do I know this? Well, Klose will likely be top scorer and most often the top scorer has come from the third place team.

Wolfgang (hoping to be nearly as good as a coin throw)