Is ATD that boring these days? You banned the only action on there and now it's sterile. Old blokes all agreeing with each other and no disputes. Wow how wonderful but oh how dead. Who was it who voted for the player of the tournament because it most certainly wasn't Messi. He was pretty much annonymous in both semi and final. Keeper of the tournament was German and the player was indeed the same one as that for me. He was outstanding and gave a new name to the art of keeping goal. I actually thought Macherano was better than Messi also along with at least a half dozen others. I really don't think there was much expectation that England would do anything let alone win it long before it started. There were a few sides that surprised in their mediocrity that were much more of a surprise than England not getting past the group bit. Italy, Spain, Brazil who were given safe passage into the semis in my opinion and maybe even France. Nobody really shocked in most matches either. Results sort of went with the expectation and giant killing never got going. Still the right end so fair do's and it was better than expected at the start.
