The World Cup - the good, the bad, the Suarez

Four years from now every England fan will again (most likely) be surrounded by emotions of hurt, anger and loathsome for the England football team. Yet again in a major tournament the so called 'mighty' English failed to put any mark on a major international competition. Although quick to jump on the back of the English players, questions need to be asked in every department. The performances were lackluster, boring and devoid of any emotion usually attributed to our players. Gone was the passion of Rooney, gone was the drive of Barry and gone was the flair of Lennon.... Having said that, at least we qualified for the competition, unlike the Euro's.

Still, South Africa provided the world with a well held World Cup, lacking violence and introducing the phenomenon of the vuvuzela. Among all the performances and brilliant goals, the most shocking fact to me is that the minnows New Zealand were the only team not to be beaten during the whole tournament! As a World Cup I thought that it wasn't the greatest in terms of football, although the Spanish showed how total possession football can win games, the German's proved again that they are a major tournament team, the so-called fearsome Fernando Torres joined the likes of Wayne Rooney and the majority of the French and Italian players as one of the worst of the tournament. One positive from the World Cup was that finally FIFA have decided to consider the use of technology in sport. If they did that before the tournament there would be a fair few happier Mexico and England fans, although if Lampard's 'goal' had been given we still would have lost with the performance we put in. I didn't realise Miroslav Klose had been taking lessons from Usain Bolt but that must be the only reason Mathew Upson made him look like a 9 second 100m sprinter.

It was a tournament of the under-dog with a host of big name teams struggling to overcome lesser opponents, although Spain ultimately lifted the cup. Among all the games, goals and action one moment stands out...the Suarez hand ball. Suggestions of a penalty goal have been broadcast in which the team aggrieved would just be awarded the goal, just like in Rugby. Some people agree with Suarez, some don't but I believe he had every right to commit the handball that put Ghana out after a penalty shootout. In reality, Gyan should have scored his penalty, then no-one would have spoken of the actions Suarez took. His reaction to the missed penalty was justifiable as he had pretty much just put his team in a World Cup semi-final. If an England player had have done the same and we went on the go through I am pretty sure we would have all been praising him.

In the England camp I could only find two positives to come from the tournament, the 'lethal' goalscorer Emile Heskey (7 goals, 62 games) has retired from international football and I can safely say we had by far the sexiest bench in the whole competition with Becks rocking the England suit to perfection... the Germans can have their boyband manager and assistant and we'll have Becks looking like a Greek God on the touchline. How we missed him!

Reports have come in that David Blaine is reportedly furious after England crashed out of the World Cup - his record of doing nothing in a box for 42 days was broken by Wayne Rooney