Well sports fans, here's the skinny: it's been a bit of a prick of a week. Yes, we managed to be possibly the only team to exit this world cup undefeated. Yes, we managed to spend a week in Krueger park doing lots of game viewing. But dammit it wasn't quite enough. After our experiences at the first 2 NZ matches we went into the Paraguay expecting a win. I repeat, expecting. While the world media said "well done NZ" we were all absoutely devestated that we couldn't quite crack it. However that's football, a dirty diving Italian, a dodgey refer, a bad offside decision, and you're going home early! So as much as we're bemoaning the fact that we didn't get a reason to go to Durban (for what would have been NZ vs Netherlands),
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