Being retired, even with all the work going on in the house has given me plenty of time to see a lot of the world cup. For the Bahamian readers that's a soccer tournament that the rest of the world is watching.


I have noticed that the cameramen are concentrating more than usual on the fans and in particular the female fans. Not that I am complaining of course, anything's better than watching Sweden cause England problems by taking a throw in. So I thought a league table of the fans would be worthwhile:

At the top Brazil:


Clearly in a class of their own. Brazil could of course win the tournament if they adopt the twin point attacking formation shown here. In fact her two major assets can move further and faster that Ronaldo. I know the fact that he scored again sort of spoils the story but he has definately been at too many pies.




Portugal could come close, if only their top stars stopped dressing up.
Guess which one is the real Christiano Ronaldo. Correct, the one on the right, nice wig.


Watching last nights match against Holland was more fun than watching the Olympic Diving final, but then again, most things are more fun than watching ......


Mind you the ref! Don't know who he was, I assume he had reffed before but maybe not!


And then there's Argentina and Italy.










Both in with a shout. José Pekerman the Argentine manager should have had this fan in the squad. Not to play football but to explain to the team how to wash their hair.


The Italian girl was picked out four times by the cameraman. I can only assume that they were related, or perhaps was trying to see if that was a blouse or if it was just spray paint. I'm sitting on the fence on this one. Being retired that's the sort of part time job that I could get on with, spray painting fans. I wonder where to apply.





And then there's Germany. However poor they are, the Germans will be there till the end. A pub team not long ago according to Alan Hansen but when it comes to championships they never lose? Of course having fans climbing over the fences to join the team will always help. Or maybe she's just having trouble getting her leg over... the fence. Not sure.





Let's not forget England, although Sven will soon be able to.
What can you say?

We are in the quarter finals and Owen Hargreaves is in the team. The world's gone mad.
But on a different note just look how much weight Posh has lost since she left the Spice Girls.




But can we do it? Can we win the World Cup? There's been the usual barrelful of worthlessness filling the papers, all of which are, in my opinion missing the most imporatnt factor. None of it really matter now because we would have won had Owen not been so cruelly chopped down by the long grass and Beckham not been sick of the whole thing in the first place.


The important thing is that Brazil stays to the end.


As I said before different class. Here's hoping the TV cameramen keep up the good work. Some of the footballs not been bad either, though I find it a bit of a distraction from the more serious business at hand in this year's World Cup in Germany.