The latest craze hitting the world cup is Peter Crouch's bizarre robot dance after scoring against Hungary. Proof that the world cup is not all sad stuff. *grin*

More information: CrouchRobot dedicated website

France 1, Brasil 0.

Damn. Once again, France bested Brasil in the world cup stage. Once again, Zinedine Zidane shows what a quality player he really is. So all credit to France for they were clearly the better team on the day.

As for Brasil, their world cup campaign never really lived up to the team's real promise. With players like world footballer of the year Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Kaka, Robinho, Roberto Carlos, Dida and the list goes on... Brasil should have easily made it into the final.

Another 3 days to Christmas and another 10 days to the New Year. I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We are now approaching the final corner of the year and down to the start/finish straight.

I hope that for many of you 2005 was a great year. It certainly is for me, and many of the ingredients in 2005 would form a nice foundation for 2006: so I am looking forward to better things come end year and the new year 2006. And yeah, 2006 will be World Cup year - so more sleepless nights. As ever, I will be cheering out for Brazil. They are looking strong for retaining the cup. And for the second year running, Brazilian Ronaldinho was recently named FIFA World Player of the Year.