So, England finishes second in Group C and doesn’t get knocked out. Excellent. That was an agonizing 90 minutes, but at least England led for most of the game. They play Germany on Sunday. Not so good. C’mon England. I sure hope Fabio has them practicing those penalties.
And USA finishes top of the Group and so go on to face Ghana in the next round. Good? Maybe.
The last time the US played Ghana in the World Cup it was the last game of the group stages. I was speaking at a performance management conference and though I had planned to sneak off for a little footie in the afternoon, it was at Earl’s Court and there wasn’t any place to go. I planned to keep my head down and my eyes away from the Internet avoiding all talk of scores and watch the game replayed on the higher up channels of the satellite tv.
A good plan.
Until I got out of the train station at Tooting. And I saw this:
There was literally dancing in the streets. They were thrilled. It was the first time they’d ever reached the knockout stages. Let’s hope the Ghanian community of Tooting are crying in their beers on Saturday.
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Commiserations to USA!