However, Iran and Nigeria rather ruined that this evening.
Still, that was just one game, and the 11 o'clock kick off has restored my confidence, with USA scoring after just 31 seconds.
Ignoring the game currently in progress, there have been 13 games so far, and they have produced a total of 41 goals between them, for an average of 3.15 per game.
According to "The Numbers Game" (book I'm reading at the moment) the average for the Premier League is 2.66, so encouraging stuff so far.
Also an interesting article on the BBC website today using the oft-quoted fact that it only takes a gathering of 23 people for there to be a 50% chance of two of them sharing the same birthday. This year's World Cup is made up of 32 squads of 23 players, and sure enough 16 of those squads include shared birthdays.
Finally for today, it was my annual pre-championship trip to the All England Club today. I'd been led to believe that a statue of Murray had been commissioned (after all there's one of Fred Perry), so was a little bit disappointed to discover that this was the best that they could manage.
