Brazil face France tomorrow

Much as I would like Brazil to win against France, I have a fear that France might pull up a surprise tomorrow. Brazil have not been as fluent as I would have liked them to be. The closest they came to their best was during the match against Japan, where they were 1-0 down and [...]

Brazil 3 – Ghana 0 – Brazil don’t look very fluent

Brazil defeated Ghana 3 goals to nothing in their 2nd round match and Ronaldo became the leading scorer in World Cup competitions – his tally now reads 15 goals. That is the only positive that came out yesterday’s game against Ghana. Ghana, who were the undergods, played like champions but were really unlucky to score [...]

Portugal FIGHT for their win

Portugal and Holland literally fought it out in their 2nd round match yesterday. Man – it was one of the most violent soccer games i have ever seen – in a mad passage of play after half time, the refree was bringing out his cards – yellow / red for every single foul. The Dutch [...]

36 Chinatown – watchable !

36 Chinatown
I had not heard very good reviews about 36 Chinatown, the latest “whodunit” from the director-duo of Abbas-Mustan, who have previously given us hits such as Baazigar and Ajnabee. However, the movie turned out to be a good surprise – it had good elements of comedy with Johny Lever and Paresh Rawal at [...]

Brazil – 4 Japan – 1 : Brazil slowly waking up

When Japan netted their first goal today against the run of play, few would have imagined the final scoreline of 4-1 against them. Till then they did all they could to resist the Brazilian attack and also had found the lead. As such they found themselves in an unfamiliar position of leading against Brazil. But [...]