When I posted the original entry in this blog on this Monday, I had little idea that it would become so popular. It was picked by Fark and this ensured 19,000 hits in the last two days. I also noticed that websites and message boards from Russia, Australia and UK gave a link to that article. I promised to post a follow up if there were any response and I had some response in the comment section. So, I am posting and update of some more amazing things.
Nelson Santos wrote:
" - Portugal's keeper, Ricardo, was the first one ever to save three penalty shots in the same shot out, in the story of the World Cup.
- In the last Italian win of the World Cup (1982) there was a corruption scandal in Italian Football in the courts, envolving a lot of players, coaches and teams. The same happens this year...and they're world champions again.
- England and Spain are always appointed as favourites to the World Cup...thougn the best the spanish have accomplishes is a 4th place in 1950 and the english won the 1966 world cup...at home. Talk about overrated!
- The award for best player is decided before the final. In 2002 FIFA awarded Germany's goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, and he made an incredible error that gave Brazilian Ronaldo the 1-0 goal. This year they awarded France's Zidane and he is sent off by head-butting Italian's Materazzi...is there a curse in this award?"
Jamie wrote, "With regards to point 4, you could say that Schweinsteiger got a hat-trick in the 3rd place playoff...even though the free-kick went in off Petit."
DaItalian said, "Italy's 12 goals came from 10 different players. I believe this is also a record."
Thanks for your contributions. Hopefully, in future, I will be able to post similar entries in my blogs that would get such a huge response.
Razib,
Nice job on the traffic generation! Keep up the great work.
Posted by: Darren McLaughlin | July 12, 2006 1:41 PM | Permalink to Comment