www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

3 more matches to go and then we can go back to sleep properly again. Lets' take a look at the quarter-finals and we will see how each victor performed to get into the semi-finals. The teams that appeared first as in like the home team are all out of the competition. So for the semi-finals, it will be the reverse that is the teams that appear first will be in the final. On the other hand, it could well be a Spain v Denmark final. Anything goes but first let us forget just the results but more importantly to examine and dissect the remaining teams. Every team has their strengths and weaknesses.  It is now anyone's game and any team's tournament to win. Win two more games and you are in the history books of champions forever. Surely with four teams left, all of them came through on more than merit. The semi-lists' quarter-final performances:  Switzerland v Spain - Firstly you have to give credit to the Swiss for making life so difficult for Spain. As expected the Spania

Two more matches and it is all over. Another four-year wait to unite the world. I think they should just do away with third placing as it bears no significance nor purpose. Who would remember who were the third and fourth best teams? Every team goes home from the World Cup with a different future direction, some to devastating effect but there have been so much to learn and to glean from. We now know it will be a Germany versus Argentina final. Germany playing so well and consistently throughout are favourites and ready to add to several new records already set by being the first European team to win outside their continent while Argentina playing pragmatic soccer have yet to play a more exciting match.  Meantime, I know how these footballers feel. Win and you are heroes, lose and you get pelted with eggs. When people follow my blog predictions and win, no hugs and kisses, lose and I do not even get eggs or omelette. It was not my intention for anyone to punt. I just write and s

First a quiz. Who was trained to ignore pain and to ignore sleep? Rambo, John Rambo. While some could take more pain than others, few could ignore sleep. If you could ignore both, you are in the "Special Forces".  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSzCbJVTxDY Welcome to the Rambo club if you have been passionately following the World Cup. Not having enough shut eye is like not being able to take a sh*t. You get screwed. You go groggy, you become like a zombie, you may be there but your mind and soul are not. Your system can go haywire. I watched them all at home diligently and it has been a lonely job then I form my views on each team based on my observation.   It depends on how passionate you are about soccer. Punters are excluded because if there were "live" matches to see which paint dry faster or which grass grow faster, they'll stay up. It is a different motivation. If your passion for anything is too weak, you cannot sustain a th