Wednesday, March 01, 2006
The Uruguay friendly and tickets
With just 100 days to go until the start of the World Cup in Germany and England played host to Uruguay at Anfield in the first of 3 friendly matches as part of the build-up to the tournament.
The saw a minutes silence for former manager, Ron Greenwood who died last month and also for Chelsea legend, Peter Osgood who collapsed and died at a family funeral today at the age of 59.
Charlton striker Darren Bent (and former Ipswich Town striker) was given his full debut along side Wayne Rooney in the absense of Michael Owen. The game didn't provide any special moments until Uruguay took the lead with a stunning 30 yard volley after a corner was only half-cleared. After that, the visitors were happy to sit back and although England had plenty of possesion, they didn't really make the keeper work. Joe Cole was definitely pick of the players and it the 75th minute, he whipped over a cross for Peter Crouch to head England level. But Cole wasn't finished there and won the game for England with the last kick of the game when he finished a Wright-Phillips cross from close range. The biggest down-point of the evening was when Wayne Bridge was stretchered off but early suggestions are the injury is not too serious.
The other leading nations suffered some bad results with France losing 2-1 at home to Slovakia, Argentina losing 3-2 to Croatia, Germany losing 4-1 in Italy and Spain were struggling against Ivory Coast.
As part of the build up to the finals, I've added the match schedule to the World Cup 2006 Information website. After the tournament, it will be a detailed statistical record of the finals
The ticket situation for England fans is a joke and it's all FIFA's fault. The FA have done well and managed to secure extra tickets but so far, they have still not been able to confirm the category of tickets being provided so the FA have been unable to allocate them to supporters. We are hoping to hear this week but I'm not holding my breath.
Racism has again reared it's ugly head in Spain. Real Zaragoza fans were hurling so much abuse at Barcelona stirker, Samuel E'to on Sunday, he threatened to walk off the pitch. He was persuaded to stay on the pitch by team-mates but this sort of situation is a disgrace and sadly far too often. What's even worse is the totally inadequate response of the Spanish authorities. They have acted quickly and fined Zaragoza around 10,000 Euros. To many people, that's an insult and they would have been better just ignoring the incident. To hand out such feeble penalties is hardly going to encourage people to stop. If the Spanish can't deal with the problem, then FIFA should. We had a problem in England and for the most part, it's been dealt with so it can be done.
// posted by Big Blue Marble @ 10:38 pm 
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