Tue, 18 Jun

Monday.  US wins.  Joy
Tuesday.  Japan loses.  Despair obliterates joy as if it had never been.
Why does it hurt more to lose than it feels good to win?
Because football is just like life.  
You want to understand football?  Read the Book of Ecclesiastes.
2:21: "For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then he must leave all he owns to someone who has not worked for it."
Fare thee well, France, Argentina, South Africa, Nigeria and Japan.

And now we bid a not-at-all fond farewell to the reign of Mad King Phillipe. The king is dead, and may he stay that way! Permit me a brief meditation on the solemn occasion: The Seven Deadly Sins of Troussier.