Senegal!!!!

Yes yes yes!!!

Senegal 3 : Sweden 1. Golden goal!

Senegal is through to the quarter-finals!
Only the second time in history that an African team has managed to come this far (first time was 1990, of course: Cameroon, *swoon*).

It was worth getting up early for! Oh, I knew I was right to back this team.

I'm in football heaven.

Elfmeter

Now I'm a wreck.

Penalty shoot-outs are psychot-torture. And only 20-odd hours to recover for Brazil v. Belgium.

But Spain are through and that's OK, because Castillas (who is God in the goal -- but so was Given!) is a visual delight. Reminds me of a muscly Orli (and tight-lipped, mwuahah)!