Germany are the World Cup winners

Well, how has it been for you?
I had the feeling that as soon I wrote the lines: 'The World Cup has been sensational" after the fantastic Croatia v Australia group match, the tournament might bomb in the knockout stages and so it proved.
The only classic match I've seen in the second half of the tournament has been Tuesday's wonderful semi-final between Germany and Italy: the rest of the knockout games have ranged from good (Argentina v Mexico),reasonable (Italy v Ukraine) to absolutely dire (Switzerland v Ukraine, England v Ecuador, France v Portugal). But whoever gets their hands on the Jules Rimet Trophy on Sunday, the team which has 'won' this World Cup for me is Germany.
From the word go, Jurgen Klinsmann's team showed a refreshing commitment to attack- in a competiton when dull Portugalesque 4-5-1 formations have become far too common. Klinsmann's attitude has been a breath of fresh air at a time when far too many coaches (a certain bespectacled Swede springs readily to mind) have been terrified to take chances. Let's hope Klinsmann continues as Germany's coach and that more and more teams start to copy his country's exhilirating style of play. If they do, then the next World Cup really will be sensational- from start to finish.

Independence Day

Over two-hundred years on from their last great battle for independence, the American people are faced with another great struggle: how to liberate themselves from the gang of war-mongers and profiteers who currently govern them. All lovers of peace and goodwill between nations wish them well in that endeavour.

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

I wonder if England's £5m a year manager- or any of his very well-paid backroom staff thought of this? Somehow I doubt it.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002390000-2006300411,00.html

England would have got to the semis....

1. If we'd sacked Sven Goran-Eriksson before the start of the tournament and appointed a more attack-minded manager.
2. If we'd taken more strikers.
3. If we'd taken some fit strikers- instead of two unfit ones and Theo Walcott.
4. If we'd dropped Frank Lampard and David Beckham.
5. If we'd played 4-3-3 with Aaron Lennon in the starting line-up.
6. If Steven Gerrard knew how to keep possession.
7 If we'd more players who were half- German like Owen Hargreaves. (then we would have scored all five penalties!).......

What do you think?

The World Cup Worst XI

FIFA is currently selecting its 'squad of the tournament' -the players who have performed the best in this year's World Cup. But what about the biggest flops of the tournament?
Here's my selection from today's First Post.
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=689

June 28th : An Important Anniversary

It's exactly five years ago today that President Milosevic of Yugoslavia was illegally kidnapped and sent to the kangaroo court at The Hague, established and funded by the very powers who had waged illegal war against his country two years earlier.
It is also the anniversary of another important event in recent Balkan history: Milosevic's speech at Kosovo field in 1989. According to the NWO Rewrite of History, this was the occasion on which Milosevic 'whipped up ancient ethnic hatreds' as part of a devilish plan to cement his domestic power base.
I enclose a link to a translation of the whole speech below. Read it and then reflect on why the propagandists for the NWO have been so keen to misrepresent its contents.
http://www.free-slobo-uk.org/quote_milosevic_kosovofield

It's time to make murderers pay the ultimate price

Another day, another story of horrific murder in Britain. 18 year old former public schoolgirl Kemi Adeyoola stabbed defenceless 84- year old Anne Mendel 14 times in a fiendish, premeditated murder for 'research' into a book she was planning to write. Adeyoola is expected to be sentenced to life imprisonment-but don't bank on her spending her life behind bars: the average 'life' sentence in Britain is now just over ten years.
There are those on the liberal- left, (Polly Toynbee and Roy Hattersley to name but two) who think rising violent crime is an invention of the tabloid press. But ostrich-style poses aren't going to solve the problem.
The restoration of capital punishment is not the only measure we need to take- but it would at least be a start. It would be a clear and unequivocal statement from our society on the high value we place on human life and why we regard those who take the lives of others as having irrevocably broken their contract with society.
Anne Mendel's bereaved husband Leonard has moved to Israel to live with his daughter. He obviously feels that even with the instability and dangers there- it's still a safer option than the mean streets of London.
What an indictment that is.