ARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!

I guess that's what I'm feeling at the moment, because once again I cannot get into any of my awesome unfinished games no matter how hard I try and my backlog is seriously huge. It's a strange feeling for sure, because I really want to start some more gaming but it's a major stuggle to keep myself interested while playing...

Anyway... despite being a massive football (soccer) fan I haven't posted a single blog since the start of the World Cup. It feels like a missed opportunity so I'm gonna hand out some imaginary awards for various accomplishments:

Best Game

Japan vs. Denmark

It had to be this game, partly because neither myself, who has been following the development of the Japanese team for the past few years, nor the Japanese media had any idea that they were capable of this. For those who didn't see the match, Japan dominated against a proven European team featuring some big name players and scored 3 brilliant goals to top it off. Keisuke Honda was unbelievable, which made me less embarrassed about wearing my Japanese HONDA football shirt (which I bought last year when he wasn't even in the first team :D (it's got the number 57 on it?)). The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger even called him a genius and said he was the best player of the tournament (a possible replacement for Fabregas maybe?). This leads on to...

Best Goal

Shinji Okazaki vs Denmark

The 3rd Japanese goal against Denmark was the winner not because of the goal scorer but the set up play of Honda. Honda broke into the box before executing a beautiful turn to lose his defender, but rather than scoring (which would have put him as the World Cup's leading scorer at the time) he rolls the ball across to Okazaki who grateful tapped it home.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/matches/match_43/default.stm

Player of the Tournament

Mesut Ozil

I know that Forlan won the official award, but this guy was brilliant. He was the most expensive teenager in the history of the Bundesliga when he moved to Werder Bremen in 2008 and his performances over the past season showed off his undoubted potential, but the World Cup is a bigger stage and he looked like a world beater. His silky dribbling, threatening runs and great technical ability had him walking all over the hyped up players like Messi and Ronaldo.

Team of the Tournament

Spain

I don't want to say it... but they were the best, love them or loathe them the football that this team plays is without equal. It would be brilliant if every team could play in a similar fashion but its obviously something they are taught from a young age so teams like England would probably never come close...

Flops of the Tournament

England and Wayne Rooney

I'm rolling the worst team and worst player categories into one here because England were awful... there is just no escaping that fact. Before the World Cup every paper in England was spouting nonsense about things like who England would be playing in the final, the British media always do this and hopefully this World Cup has given them the reality check that they all need (though I doubt it). I don't want to go into detail about how it all went wrong because it will just bring back painful memories, but basically the manager picked his team on reputation rather than form and the players embarassed the country by playing with no passion, pace or indeed talent... I'm not even gonna get started on Rooney :evil:

That's all I can think of right now... At the end of the day World Cup 2010 will probably be remembered as a tournament where the big name players flopped, and the football wasn't breathtaking by any stretch of the imagination. But I thought the South Africans were great hosts, and I really enjoyed it. Hopefully you guys did aswell :D

Bring on Brazil 2014!!