[Rook]

Listening to World Cup...

Ghana v.s. U.S.A.
and there's a wild Crowd so far...
U.S.A. just scored to match up 1-1

Nothing special, according to David James. Strictly run of the mill, apparently. Like some Sunday afternoon park run-out against the local pub side.

“No. Really. It is, just another football match,” the England goalkeeper continues to protest about his country’s impending knockout-round date against arch-nemesis Germany.

Right. And the Sistine is just another ceiling, the Beatles are just another rock band and Yankees-Red Sox is just another ball game.

He’s joking. Either that or the man’s gone mad.

“Obviously,” James conceded, perhaps realizing how ridiculous his contention sounds, “there’ll be a lot of external references and whatever else, historical references.

For 16 nations, there is no more wiggle room. This is when the fun, the drama and the sorrow are all ratcheted up to almost inhuman levels. When, for most people, any World Cup actually starts.