Fifty, fifty.
Like a market stall holder beckoning you toward his stall, tempting you with his reasonably priced fruit 'fifty, fifty, your banana, fifty, fifty' I'm marking the fact that there are only 50 days to go until The World Cup with this post.
I'm not the only football blogger to draw a parallel between this landmark and the last time the greatest show on turf was held in Brazil, in 1950, in case you hadn't guessed.
And what you also might not have guessed is that Brazil failed to win that tournament. The multi-World Cup winners failed to do the business on their own patch.
Will the pressure of expectation create another potential banana skin that will see the hosts slip up in their own back yard?
We'll begin to get a better idea in fifty, fifty days...
Like a market stall holder beckoning you toward his stall, tempting you with his reasonably priced fruit 'fifty, fifty, your banana, fifty, fifty' I'm marking the fact that there are only 50 days to go until The World Cup with this post.
I'm not the only football blogger to draw a parallel between this landmark and the last time the greatest show on turf was held in Brazil, in 1950, in case you hadn't guessed.
And what you also might not have guessed is that Brazil failed to win that tournament. The multi-World Cup winners failed to do the business on their own patch.
Will the pressure of expectation create another potential banana skin that will see the hosts slip up in their own back yard?
We'll begin to get a better idea in fifty, fifty days...
