Footballs Are Round!

I kind of lost interest in blogging for a few days, as I mourned for the USA crash-out. I’m still a bit weak from the grief, so the best I can offer up is a few lame observations about the England/Portugal quarterfinal:

* I have this theory that Wembley Stadium is built over the former site of some druid burial ground, and this is the reason England are cursed when it comes to penalty kick shootouts. It’s only a working theory. I don’t have any, like, facts or anything.

*Somebody needs to take Cristiano Ronaldo aside and tell him his bright shiny red boots make him look like Judy Garland in the Wizard of Oz.

*Wayne Rooney will come to a bad end someday. Only the wisdom of the ancient Stoic Philosophers can save him from this eventuality.

*By the time the Premiership starts back up, will Rooney and Ronaldo be on speaking terms?

*The guy that got cleated in the, ahem, the “personal region” by Rooney – this guy should get a medal from the King of Portugal or something. That’s quite a sacrifice to make for your country.

*Does Portugal even have a king?