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The Guardian·about 18 hours ago

Football Daily | No Scotland, no party? Brazil boogie all over Tartan Army’s World Cup fun

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Sorry, I’m a Lady, The Devil Sent You to Lorado and Sleepy-Time-Toy are reminders that no one remembers the bad times, the mind is selective and focuses on the positives.

Baccara’s back catalogue is roughly one song long, the others are rightly forgotten, a figment of only a few people’s imaginations.

Scotland needed a certain song and took it around America; well, from Boston to Miami at least.

The nation arrived with hope, boasting European champions, Premier League and Serie A winners among their cohort on the pitch, hoping to get through the group while drinking cities dry.

All they had to do was get past Haiti, African champions* Morocco and those boys from Brazil.

I’ve given up hope of ever being the author of the letter o’ the day with you lot but wish to join the 1,056 other California-based pedants and point out that the aforementioned cheese [Football Daily letters passim] is correctly referred to as ‘Monterey Jack’.

Monterey is the city in California, Monterrey (with two Rs) is in Mexico” – Jim Broshar.

Congratulations to Scotland for finding new ways to extend the torture of their wonderful fans.

In previous tournaments they would go out unbeaten, or in glorious defeat, with the goal of the tournament thrown in for good measure.

Now, in keeping with this bloated GWC, they get an extra three-day wait in the Miami heat, while watching one team after another best them on goal difference” – Justin Kavanagh.

Fox Sports’ ‘The 32’ is punchier than the name here in Germany at least.

As well as quarter-finals (viertelfinale), German has the semis as ‘half finals’ (halbfinale), the round-of-16 as “eighth finals” (achtelfinale), and so naturally the new stage is the ‘16th finals’ (sechszehntelfinale).

Germany also considers the second-place team as ‘vice champions’ (vizemeister), probably as they’ve been second so often” – Chris Green.

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