Angola

[Ripley]

From Ben Farland's 10 viewing gripes in The Guardian

 

" 3) Angola's tactics

There's three minutes left, you're one-nil down to Portugal, your reviled one-time colonial masters, and you've a dangerous free kick positioned on the edge of the opposition's area. What do you do?

 

a) Adopt a clichéd African devil-may-care attitude to defence, throw everyone into the box, including the goalkeeper, and put the ball "into the mixer".

 

b) Do something you haven't done all match and perhaps have a shot, preferably on target.

 

c) Keep eight players behind the ball. Pass it backwards. Knock it around the defence a bit and then concede a lamentable throw-in.

 

For some reason, Angola took the last option. What happened fellas? Last time you played Portugal, the match was abandoned after you had four players sent off amid a flurry of brutal tackles and dissent with the score at 5-1 to Portugal. Now that's more like it."

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

I was mortified. I'd been looking forward to a blood-bath for weeks & it was probably the most turgid game so far.