Any one who thought that this world cup would be played in good spirits would have realised the reality of things in the Australia-Croatia match. Football is fun. Football means a super carnival atmosphere. Football is also pretty rough, especially when matches are close, more often than not.

One word to describe the early part of the Portugal-Holland game would be intense with high quality football being played. The Maniche goal meant that Portugal had the early advantage. Then, we had the many brawling incidents of course. For Portugal, it was extremely stupid of Figo to go for the head-butt as losing another man and so a 9 vs 11 would have meant suicide.

I thought Holland shouldn’t have got involved in the brawls as it meant, above other things, a lot of time wasted which cost Holland as they were already 0-1 down. In the actual match, Holland missed some easy chances and were unlucky in other times. The two goal keepers must be commended for making some astonishing saves which were very much significant in causing a lot of tension to every one.

With each match, as the world cup script unfolds - one match at a time, the anticipation and the thrill keeps increasing. While all this happens, we keep falling in love all over again with the great tournament.

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