Category Archives: Honour & Glory

World Cup Gamble and Patriotism

Tough weekend… four results that almost nobody could foresee!

The german female gambler being in the lonely lead at the beginning of the weekend (my lovely girlfriend) got caught up and my good friend from down under was actually right with his public announced bet on the Brazil game (even though he completely failed in the other ones)…

But I like the “patriotic” “Go Pacific!!!” attitude…

in Germany some people think patriotism is something that we still can’t take liberty of…
a discussion that just came up again, caused by the heaps of german flags out in the streets.

World Cup Gamble

Completely random… none could have guessed this: Australia 3-1 Japan… even the football guru “hansaspieler” who made points in all previous games did not know this… something is just wrong… and I was so much looking forward to my three points in this game (at least after the 1-1 in the 83rd)… and then… WTF… two more?

but there we go… the somewhat boring Italy game brought the tripple.

World Cup Gamble

Finally the FIFA World Cup has started and so did my little WC gamble… first games were played and first points were given… even though the results did not match the ones that the FIFA published early this morning on it’s webpage (Ger:Crc 1:0 and Pol:Ecu 2:1)…