Group D Begins

The Kendo Nagasaki Fan Club convention also happens to be in Nuremburg this afternoon.

Mexico 3 Iran 1

My neighbours, who own our local chippie, reveal themselves as Iranians and not Turks as I had believed for the past ten years, when they go mental as Iran equalise in the opening match of Group D. Rafael Marquez shows all his class by playing four different positions simultaneously and is the Man Of The Match, the Mexican supporters in the ground forget their dislike for International imports when Zinha, the Brazilian with a Mexican wife scores the goal of the match to put the Tricolours 3-1 up with 10 minutes left.

Portugal 1 Angola 0

Pauleta nearly scores after 12 seconds and when he does actually find the net after brilliant work by Figo everybody fears the worst for Angola. ITV's commentator Peter Drury keeps on about how tough life has been for the Benfica player Pedro Mantorras, who comes on as sub in the second half, whilst David Pleat frets that Angola are keeping six back when they should be chasing the game. I actually thought Angola got it right, they didn't want to be embarrassed and the first rule of football is don't concede many (preferably none) goals.




Pauleta adds another goal to his record total.