Out of the World Cup

Today is an extremely insignificant World Cup day if your name is Ledley King.

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However, time for a concluding World Cup blog.

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England had one good game (against Slovenia) in the world cup and it was the one where everyone was at work!

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Fortunately, for those who missed it, James Corden reviewed the game in his World Cup show on the evening...

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"What a great game today! It was a great game. Wasn't it a great game, don't you think? It was a great game."

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Similarly he reviewed Spain versus Chile later in the week:

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"Did you see the game? What a great game."

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So that's good, cos if you miss the action, you can always count on James Corden's post-match reviews to bring you up to speed.

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If there's one person thats annoyed me more than James Corden this world cup, it's the Mirror Football columnist Oliver Holt. This is the same Oliver Holt who on one particular match-day called his column "Why Lee Dixon is the Best Pundit at the World Cup"

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The column read: "Best pundit of the World Cup so far: Lee Dixon." then he completely changed the subject!!!

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Oliver Holt ran a headline before the Germany game that James Milner had matured during this World Cup. What?? He became a man in a week or so??

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The USA game.. he played and was terrible - did he mature then? No

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The algeria game - he didn't play - what maturing did he do then? None, obviously.

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The slovenia game he played well.... ahh i get it now.. during those 90 minutes, he really grew up as a person, stopped being a boy any more and became a man. I get it now.

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Oliver Holt!!!!! grrr

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Why do all the commentators start beating one out over Spain!!!! The worst moment I've seen.. Torres hitting a shot from 30 yards out way off target into Row Z, only to be followed with the commentary... "Torres...he's done everything right there."

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Finally, tennis. Andy Murray is out, and I blame the pitch, the ball, the net, the ballboys, the umpire, the racket, the towel (definitely the towel), the banana and the coach!

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As for England, of the many excuses, I think really it's just down to the players!!!

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Some people are blaming the jabulani, and I can kind of see their point...

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I mean, if you're going to let the players have a curry before-hand, it's not really the best preparation.

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:-)