Another day, another slew of shit coming straight from the world stage. The day started with New Zealand vs Slovakia. Neither team are expected to win the tournament, and they used that expectation to produce the tournaments fifth draw in as many days. Slovakia started the more likely to produce a goal, and did after 50 minutes of BORING BORING FOOTBALL. Vittek the goalscorer. After half an hour of more shit stain football, New Zealand found an equalizer with virtually the last kick of the game, thanks to Reid. Suffice to say, I was npt impressed by this matchup.
What followed was perhaps the best example of how not to play football kicked off at 3.00 pm GMT. The Ivory Coast took on Portugal in a clash of the titans, west Europe meets west Africa duel to the death. Former world player of the year Cristiano Ronaldo struck the post within 10 minutes, and then came the rain. Nobody shot, nobody tried. It was rather terrible, to be honest. Didier Drogba came of in the second half, to the sound of "a true African hero" courtesy of ITV's everyman cunt Peter Drury. Drogba didn't do anything, and the ref called for the end of the game 30 seconds early. What a doll.
The last match of the day was surprisingly refreshing. Unknown superpowers Brazil took on North Korea, a side that has been flown from a country that requires you to cry when the national anthem is played. The Koreans did very, very well for about 50 minutes, before some "Brazilian magic" led to the first goal of the match, thanks for Maicon. The Brazilians managed to carve their way through the Korea, and former Manchester City player Elano finished after 72 minutes. Game over? Well, no.
Korea knew anything less than a win would equal death apon their families, so they played some great, great football, and they were rewarded when Ji Yun-Nam carved the Brazilian defence apart. They were unfortunate not to score again.
Day five brought nothing new to the current trend of bad football, but at least we had some form of excitment. And we have North Korea to thank for that. Lets hope somthing new happens on day 6.
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