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I know it's wrong to laugh... I know it is... but....

It does for me. Have you paid your licence fee?

Thing is, I'm worried they might think he is. It's not as if there's a shortage of more erudite and insightful people who tick that box, after all.

This. Major credit to Slovakia for that alone, never mind the result.

This thread is like the fucking hokey cokey.

I can't wait for Stevie.

No, no, it does. Any distraction from the football is welcome right now, don't want to jinx it by actually starting to hope.

OK, it's the Guardian blog, but still.

And that was five hours before they gave up for the night...

Surprised at how happy I am for Team YouEssAy actually. That's a very tasty part of the draw, too - one of Uruguay, South Korea, Ghana and Merka is going to be a semi-finalist.

Yeah, if a tie-break is good enough for every other set, it should be good enough for the final one really. Mind, still a great bit of publicity for the game.

Happy to place a large bet on Germany to get through to the next round (specifically not only to win in 90 minutes) - there's no money I'd be happier to lose.

Famous last words, but I wouldn't be particularly scared of any of the teams in the Germans' group, to be honest. Even with us not in top form.

Meanwhile, a match at Wimbledon is at 25-24 in the final set.

Might get sent off from the bench yet

He fell into the man.

I think it's one of the conditions of them flogging the TV rights for silly money that they don't.

I'll steal Ritchie's word - cringeworthy. There'll be letters from Daily Mail readers about this.

Not to mention a terrible liar. I quite like him.

I was going to say, 20/1 on PaddyPower, very tempting. He'd have to actually move his lardy arse first though.

The whole thing reeks of France. By which I don't mean garlic.

Probably for the other three countries to withdraw due to illness They need Ghana to beat Germany, basically. (Or Germany to stuff Ghana by a cricket score.)

That fella in the States who chose death by firing squad recently should totally have requested "death by Creosote".

Aye. And that was just the singers.