we should be glad that helene_t does not make various statistic diagrams about this contest. it could expose how bad we really are :D upppssss yellow card danger...sorry ;)
The true reason why they did not let Greece bankrupt was.... german and french private banks have enormous amounts in greek bonds, the bank-lobby did silent but very effective work once again. This was not the "Greece bail out" but another european bank bailout.
Obama tries to persuade Europeans not to fight against the budget deficits and go out of the crisis through the "inflation gate" He talked about it with Merkel yesterday. He seems not to know how much the Germans hate the word "inflation". If any political party in Germany would act frankly in this direction, that would bring them politcal suicide on the next elections.
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3555/wtorekmat1.jpg 33) Mexico – Uruguay 34) France – South Africa 35) Nigeria – Korea Republic 36) Greece – Argentina 37) Slovenia – England 38) United States – Algeria 39) Ghana – Germany 40) Australia – Serbia 41) Slovakia – Italy 42) Paraguay – New Zealand 43) Denmark – Japan 44) Cameroon – Netherlands 45) Portugal – Brazil 46) Korea DPR – Cote d’Ivoire 47) Chile – Spain 48) Switzerland – Honduras
There is no rest day between end of the group stage and KO R16, so I think we should split it to 2x4 to have enough time for all votes I will post the first four as soon as the pairings are known.
Considering the results till now, all South American teams and Mexico shows a solid performance while many European "great football nations" seems to struggle.