This is an actual headline from globeandmail.com, Canada’s “national” newspaper, in case you wanted to know why our soccer team doesn’t feel like succeeding anytime soon. It’s actually not a bad article, and makes some valid points about why the teams involved could make this game punishingly unwatchable. But it’s wrapped up in that haughty, Greggggg Easterbrook pomposity that makes one want to drive to Temecula and have it out with the person involved. Have a read, if you dare.

Me? I’m just hoping the pretty boys find a way to score more goals.

Poland has only given up one goal so far in the tourney, and seem to play a counter-attacking style designed to lull opponents into taking long shots and then running past them with the rebound. Portugal lives & dies based on which Ronaldo shows up. If they’re smart, they send a fake reporter to bug him again, so he goes off like he did versus Hungary.

Prediction: 1-0 Portugal. Goal coming in the 30 minutes of added time.

God help us all if it goes to the shootout – it might never end.