Day 6. The Belgians are coming....but they may take a while.

Day 6. What happened today in Brazil. Belgium played like what they are: the bunch of hot shots in European football right now, everybody's dark horse favourite, but they could not play as a hot shot team against Algeria but managed to squeak out a 2-1 win. Brazil looked anything like Brazil playing at home in their world cup are supposed to look like. they looked more like Mexico, their opponents. Sure, the Mexican keeper made a couple of outrageous saves, but I think the problem with modern Brazil is in their names. The mystique of Zico, Socrates, Falcao, Careca, Bebeto has been replaced by the commonness of Fred. Jo, Bernard, Maxwell, Dante.....who's going to fear Fred and Jo? Sound like my uncle and aunt...really. Anyway, for those who live on a different planet, it was 0-0. And, finally, Russia played South Korea which is one of those matches that you have to be a real die hard fan to watch, or Russian or Korean. I would been one of those suckers, except I couldn't watch it. My sources tell me the only battle was to stay awake, livened up by the Russian keeper spilling the ball into his own net and the Koreans allowing normality to be restored with a Russian goal for a 1-1 draw.