It was a bit like watching Scotland play, very little to enthuse over, however, the two games today should make it all worthwhile. Brazil will have their work cut out to contain Ghana if they get a head of steam on, but I would have thought their experience will see them through in the end, although it may well be very close. Spain and France should also throw up a decent game, one would have thought on present form that Spain would stroll this one, but I don't think it will turn out to be so clear cut as that. France will be up for this one, and with the quality of players at their disposal this may well go all the way. Spain have not really been tested yet, this will be their first big hurdle of the tournament, it may prove to be a big one.
On another note, I agree with junior. England have exceded expectations. Nobody thought they were very good, FIFA had them ranked outside the top eight, and surprise surprise, they have reached the last eight. How they got there is neither here nor there, the hard fact of the matter is that they are in the quarter finals and having already exceded expectations they may well with the help of the numpty ref remove Portugal from the competition. In a nutshell, the comment about exceding expectations is correct, exceding our hopes.............................................................
................we are all made differently.