ja ja ja ja, tell it to Simon Kuper, whom I am sure you have observed wrote the article (and not me) and who might actually care about Swiss football trivia. I just shared it because, whether factually right or not, it was topical and pretty funny - especially for the FT.

Yep I'm certainly not gonna let the facts get in the way of good entertainment either

A German colleague sent me a meeting invite for 4pm, fully knowing that I was going to be watching the match.... is there no end to the dirty tricks?

NO!!!! Well hopefully you will be able to get your revenge if we get to take on Germany. I am in Malta at the moment and the whole island has erupted (well, not literally) as they are so pro England - very refreshing!

Thank feck a good match for England, needed more goals but they battered Slovenia.
Would be nice to see the Rooney I remember from the last 4 years of Premiership football but I happy to see Gerrard playing well at last.
I hate Terry but I can forgive any thing when a footballer on the floor tries to stop a goal by launching his head at the ball.

TBH, the German's are looking quite shaky .....

Steve Gerrard, Gerrard!!
he'll pass the ball 40 yards
he's better than Frank Lampard
Steve Gerrard, Gerrard

Woopeee England!



(I dont know any defoe songs)

Saw a bunch of Americans jumpin' up and down by the lake waving flags (gee hadn't seen that many of my own in a long time) so....

TBH Ghana looked like the better side for most of this game.

BTW Until when is Klose suspended?

And then the German's scored !!

Yes I wrote that message after the goal. Was I supposed to mention it

It makes Rooney's shot on the post even more frustrating: Potentially England could get Germany then Argentina while the USA will potentially get Ghana then Uruguay or South Korea.

No worries, he is back for the England game

Up to now it all went like 2006... when Germany went just through after a lost game against Croatia. And then:

The 2nd half of the Australia v Serbia game was amazing! If you think about it the socceroos probably would have qualifed for the next round if our two best players hadn't of been needlessly red carded. Happy though that we saw Serbia out and in the process allowed an African country though.... PROUD TO BE AN AUSTRALIAN!!!!!

I have a friend in London on Sunday, any recommendations on a fun/interesting place to watch the Germany/England match?

http://www.octoberfestpub.com/ sounds just about right.

Perhaps a local English pub.....

I honestly think the best thing to come from todays 3 Lions win is the frotthy mouth enthusiasm from Cappello. Good to see the man fire up, so sweet when he said post match "this is the team I know..."

Which part of London will you be in?

North or South Americans?

Just wanted to share with my fellow EF'ers my extraordinary joy over the fact that the US finished at the top of our group!! I was glad that England got through too, because my husband is English. But I am so proud of our American guys!! That is all.