Pepe Le Prick

Group G

Germany   4    Portugal   0

Muller(12pen, 

45, 78)

Hummells (32)

It's hard enough trying to beat a team like Germany when your 2 nil down with 11 men, let alone when your down to 10.  Pepe's sending off may of ruined any chance of Portugal getting through the group stage. Portugal are already seen by some as a 1 man team, and I have to admit there wasn't a lot of quality anywhere else on the pitch yesterday for the Portuguese.  Ronaldo was very quiet and only managed one decent free-kick, and a shot on target very early in the first half.  As for the sending off , Muller made a lot of it to begin with by rolling around on the floor, holding his face like someone had hit him with a baseball bat, but when Pepe leant towards him and nutted the German whilst he was on the ground it was just ludicrous, and he rightly got his marching orders.  As he trudged off the pitch, I decided to translate Pepe to English on my phone and no surprises it comes up as Bell-end!!!

Group G

Ghana  1               USA  2

Ayew A (82)                  Dempsey (1)

                                       Brooks (86)

An Early goal from 48 year old Dempsey gave USA the lead in this one, a lead they managed to hold onto until the 82nd minute, when one of the Ayew brothers pulled back an equaliser for the black stars.  A thunderous header for Johnny Brooks III (twice removed) made sure of the points for the Americans.  This was a big shock to me as I had USA finishing bottom of this group, but now after Portugal's heavy defeat this win could well propel the Yankeedoodledoo's into the knockout rounds.  Good luck to them but I sort of hope they don't go through, only because I don't want to have to put up with interviews with their over excited fans shouting USA, USA, USA, USA, USA all over the fucking place.  

Belgium kick off later today, and this is a team I have been looking forward to seeing.  Also in the same group, Group H, Fabio Cappello starts his campaign with Russia  against South Korea.  I wonder if Cappello will go 4-1 down in this game and bring on Emile Heskey to try and turn it round.

With Brazil kicking off their second game today, it means the first round of games are coming to the end. Things that have pleased me so far with the tournament are the amount of big names from each team who have turned up this time around, also the lack of draws has been good, and we have seen plenty of goals.  

So all in all its been a good start, lets hope that this continues, and of course that England can turn it round against Uruguay on Thursday.

Come on England!!!