World Cup Final Prediction

Will Spain celebrate a first World Cup triumph?

Four long years of waiting and it’s gone in a flash. It doesn’t help, of course, that England bowed out so soon but I have still enjoyed watching the latter stages of the competition and I think we’ve got a very good final to look forward to. I feel a bit sorry for the Germans who I thought were excellent and deserved at least a final appearance, but Spain showed their quality in the semi and the Dutch have been very effective throughout the tournament.

Which really only leaves one question doesn’t it… who’s going to win?

Guest Post: A Moral Dilemma – The Hand of God II

Today I bring you a guest article that I wrote for Steve Amoia over at World Football Commentaries. After seeing Luis Suarez’s controversially heroic deliberate handball that saw Ghana thwarted in their World Cup Quarter Final against Uruguay I was struck by something of a moral dilemma. I know that what he did was wrong – but I would have done the same thing. Would you have acted differently? Should blame be attributed to Suarez? Should Ghana feel aggrieved? Should the punishment have been more severe?

Click through (and scroll down a bit) to find out more…

Everton: Building a Bright Blue Future.

French starlet Magaye Gueye signs in.

With the attention of the world very much focused on South Africa and a World Cup tournament that has finally sprung to life in its latter stages, it’s been easy to forget that the Premier League transfer window is open for business. A couple of transfers have made headlines, mainly those of big-spenders Man City who have captured David Silva and Yaya Toure, but the summer’s transfer shenanigans are yet to really spark into life.

However, given that Everton outrank England in my fan-hierarchy and that England weren’t worth thinking about too much at the World Cup anyway, I’ve been watching the transfer exploits of my club very carefully indeed. There have been no headline grabbing moves, but David Moyes has been reasonably busy so far this summer and I for one am rather excited with what I’ve seen; Moyes is building a bright blue future.