My housemate had a bit of a result last weekend. He met a Mexican girl who seemed pretty keen on meeting up with him. She suggested that they watched the Mexico v Argentina game together. Not a bad offer. I think most blokes would be happy to have a date with a foreign girl watching the world cup, but he then remembered he’d offered to “look after” a friend’s very attractive Swedish friend who was in Madrid. She suggested watching the Germany v Sweden game together. Still doable… watch the Mexico game, make excuses and then go see the Sweden game.

It gets better though. A German girl he met recently called and suggested that he watch the Sweden v Germany game with her. So it was decision time: The Mexican, German or Swede? Easy right? Not when an Argentinian girl who you’ve been seeing in the past turns up in Madrid and wants to watch the Argentina v Mexico game.

That was his dilemma for the weekend. A position I think a lot of blokes would be envious of. I’ll just finish by saying only Argentina made it through to the next round.