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Toni's pictures are fun (and the party seems to carry on in Rob's signature)...
The third place is quite interesting. Sometimes, a team is so torn that its main players are not even fielded (France, 1982, as if Schumacher's hip had fractured everyone's jaws).
The other team might want to reach the third place (France, 1986) to leave on a glimpse of hope.
And remember, some team might want to leave with a consolation price: best scorer (Croatia tried to do that for Davor Suker in 1998, but I'm too lazy and not so fond of the player to check if the goal was reached).
Perhaps that could be that, with Forlan, who' won't play another cup. And for Germany, you have Klose, who's 1 goal short of reaching Ronaldo's record of 15 goals during his world cups.
Noone's ever gonna beat Just Fontaine's record of 13 in just one world cup.
Howie Webb is gonna be the ref, that's great, I like him. One of his assistants slightly screwed up during the European cup and he was sent home too early (I saw a documentary about the referees, the Italian being happy with his team elimination and the Spanish - who had been great - almost deflated to see Spain reach the final, when they never could achieve that... this last referee in the documentary was shown leaving, just like that Mexican(?) boxer who pissed blood, in John Huston's Fat City)(I know Huston shot a movie about, erm, football, but it was crap - Stallone a goalkeeper)(films about football usually cast a guy who's a disaster with a ball - Patrick Dewaere, grrrrrrrrreat actor, for instance, in Coup de tête).
Well, Webb then.
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