You’d be forgiven if on Sunday, you mistake the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein to be a battlefield instead of a football stadium. In Europe, from now till Sunday, the World Cup is only about that one game. That game between Germany and England on Sunday. And it’s not only this game that is being talked about. The game in the World Cup of 1966, in 1970, in 1990 and the rest including the one on the cards.
The classic World Cup hostility between England and France will be resumed in Bloemfontein on Sunday. The battlefields have been drawn and the statements have started to emerge from both the camps. The Germans fear, and rightly so, that Wayne Rooney might explode into the kind of form that has eluded him till now in the world cup. The English meanwhile know deep down their throats that they will have to play their hearts out in order to have any chance against the Germans.
As we get to the fag end of the tournament, every player knows that his team is only four games away from the legendary status. From now on emotions will take the centre stage. There will be lots of fouls, lots of cards, lots of swearing and lots of hitting the woodwork. From now on, every win would be a classic victory, every loss a glorious failure.
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Battlefield? huh, “Rooney picking up the form that was evading him” What a joke? Serriously, have you seen how England have been playing at the world cup. I say they were lucky to make it into the finals, they suck BIG TIME. Go Germany!