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[blinker]

Sweden 0, Trinidad and Tobago 0. About 7 minutes to go in the game. Who knew that a scoreless soccer game could be so riveting?

Sweden was expected to run away with this one. They're dominating, but they haven't been able to score. For reasons that are beyond my limited knowledge of soccer regulations, Trinidad and Tobago has played most of the second half with only 10 men on the field (instead of the usual 11).

If all the games are this fun to watch, I have a seriously unproductive month ahead of me.

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Apparently, it was sufficiently exciting for the English fans that the last bus home last night was unsettling, in a raucous, slightly aggressive, inebriation + testosterone, oh-christ-is-this-going-to-kick-off-before-my-stop kind of way. I spent most of the journey trying to reassure a couple of worried young Dutch women, over here for work experience, that it isn't *always* like this.

I don't like soccer at the best of times, but I really fucking *hate* the World Cup. It combines with our subcultures of football hooliganism and binge drinking in ways that make for a very nervous few weeks.

(The only saving grace is that, if I can get a day off work when England are playing, I can go to IKEA and have the shop to myself instead of having to fight my way through. Which is good, because I desperately need a new sofa and chairs.)