Canada 4 Brasil 0, dream on.

In my football world, I finally had something to cheer about, but alas it had nothing to do with Spurs. (Man, it hurts. Blowing the lead against Gooners in the first leg of the Carling Cup, losing the second leg in atrocious fashion and then getting spanked by Manure at home was too much. Until yesterday, that is, when Spurs blew a one-nil lead and folded against scrappy Sheffield United. Bloody 'ell. The only wins so far this year have been against Southend and Cardiff. Yeah I know, who?)

It's incredible. Mr. Jol, please do something.

So what did I have to cheer about? Look at this score-line from Germany 2006 (Playstation 2) after a game with my mate Jimmy tonight:


Toronto's Julian de Guzman slotted home the final goal in Canada's 4-0 win over Brazil:


That's something to cheer about, even if it was just a video game.

Heartbreak: Inter 1 FC Barcelona 0

The loss was really hard to bear. I had a good seat and great expectations, but in the end it was dashed hopes and a long, sleepless bus ride back to Osaka.

Frank Rijkyaard made some poor tactical decisions, I think. Oh well. Hats off to Internacional, which scored the winning goal with less than 10 minutes to go, on one of it's few chances on net. Deco and Motta played particularly well. Why Motta was subbed totally mystifies me. He was so solid in the midfield. I bet if he hadn't been subbed Inter wouldn't have scored and Barca would have prevailed.

This was my second time to watch Barca play at the magnificent Yokohama stadium, the first being in July 2005 when they played to an exciting 3-3 draw with Yokohama F. Marinos....

Some shots from the heartbreak: