Once again, the title of this post has little to do with the post itself; I'm just running out of interesting things to say.
Just had Andy, Fi & Griff over to watch the England vs Croatia game. It was a fine game of football, won by England 4-2. Croatia scored the first goal and for 40 minutes it looked like England were never going to get on the scoreboard despite being easily the best team. Then Scholes scored for England after good work by Lampard, Owen and Rooney. It was Scholes's first goal for England in three years! Then five minutes later Rooney blasted in a shot from outside the box; set up by a nice move involving Owen & Scholes again sucking in the defenders leaving Rooney is space just where he is most dangerous. In the second half Rooney scored again when he ran on to a great through ball from Owen and calmly sent the Croatian keeper the wrong way. The one downside to the game was that England look very susceptible to corners and free kicks around the box. Both Croatia's goals came from wide free kicks with England not looking confident in the air. Frank Lampard got England's 4th.
So, England are through to the Quarter Finals and will play Portugal on Thursday. France won the group and will play Greece in their QF.
At home, Marla and I are starting to prepare for our trip to Spain next week. We will be staying with Fi's parents at the new home near Barcalona. Andy and Fi are leaving on Wednesday along with Jason, Marie and Andy's parents. Paul, Rachael, Griff and the two of us will join them on Saturday and will stay until the following Friday. We've got softball tomorrow night and the England-Portugal game on Thursday so we really only have Wednesday and Friday to get our things together.
Apart from the trip things are mostly normal. Had a very nice message from Rob Scutti (from KC) on Sunday reminding us that the US Grand Prix was about to start... it was an incident packed race and Schumacher (Rob's favourite) won, so hopefully Rob enjoyed it. That's all for now.
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