World Cup Day 4: 'Scuse Me While I Score This Goal

Goal! Goal! Goal!

You kids have it so easy. (And by "kids", I mean anyone who's clambering aboard the World Cup bandwagon for the first time in 2014.) You don't know what it used to be like, watching the first round of the World Cup in years past

Oh yes we were proud, we watchers of the Cup, and full of passion; we would vehemently defend the beautiful game to any non-soccer fan who droned on about how slow and boring the game was. "Was that it?" they'd sneer at the end of a 90-minute nil-nil draw, having totally missed the point of all the heart-stopping moments that had befallen whatever group of lads in a country far away we had gathered to support Read more...