WORLD CUP STUFF

Round of 32 - England 2 DR Congo 1 This England side is not so much a team as a mess of fairly average players plus Harry Kane. Rashford was appalling. Bellingham was the out-of-control star of his own TV show. Anderson's street value went down a few million. Et cetera. We should stop kidding ourselves that Thomas the Tookle is a master tactician His only contribution to the chaos was to scream at his players like a demented skeleton. Thank God for Harry Kane. Round of 32 - Belgium 3 Senegal 2 Senegal's own fault. Outplaying the Potato Eaters, storming into a 2-0 lead, cruising towards the last 16, then catastrophe. All it took was Lukaku causing chaos in the penalty area by standing still, several episodes of terminal brain fog in the Senegal defence, a very late VAR penalty, and we could all go to bed feeling a little bit sick. Round of 32 - USA 2 Bosnia Hurtsthegovernor 0 Bosnia have looked all along like a side waiting, almost wanting, to lose. Their blessed release came at the hands of the USA, a team full of the kind of energy which can lead to victory but also to self destruction. USA v Belgium next. Should be fun.