Well at least England won something today. They wrapped up the One Day International series against Australia 3-0 with two games to go by one wicket to keep alive dreams of a whitewash.
They looked to be cruising after bowling the Aussies out for 212 at Old Trafford, despite the green and gold being 75-0 and 130-2. Shane Watson top scored with 61 and local lad Jimmy Anderson took 3-22.
Me and my dad went to Old Trafford as my belated Birthday present and I have never seen the place so packed, even after the football started, not many fans left. We sat in the temporary stands!
England's run chase was held together by Strauss and Collingwood but in the end it went into the final over and Tim Bresnan scored the winning runs. Never have I heard such a cheer for a Yorkshireman!
England should have wrapped it up earlier and easier but at least they got the job done as I don't think many of the crowd would have been able to take two defeats by our fierciest rivals in two different sports on the same day.
As for what happened in the footy, I don't know what to say.
Yes we were harshly done by for that goal that never was but we didn't deserve to go through. Average against the USA, dreadful against Algeria and decent against Slovenia saw us scrape through the group in second place.
We can dream about what "might" have happened if we had finished first but we didn't so suck it up!
Germany outclassed us and while 4-1 might have been a shade harsh they deserved to meet Argentina in the quarter-finals.
On the Argentina note, their first goal against Mexico was offside (30 seconds in), not seen by the assistant and someone who probably no longer has a job put it on the big screen showing the assistant had made the wrong decision.
Mexico surronded the Uruguayian assistant as I would have done to in their position but the goal stood and on went Argentina to win 3-1.
Two big refereeing decisions crucially effected Mexico and England's World Cup hopes with both games in the balance at the time of these howlers.
Start the inquest now...
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