Morning all, welcome to Friday and the Week of Scorch and Aftersun – as it will be known here in Ireland – continues. I really can't ever remember it being this hot for this long here before. It's good for staying in the shade and watching the World Cup though. I didn't get to see much of the afternoon games, but Japan went through on the basis of having fewer yellow cards than Senegal which seems a really arbitrary way to qualify. It also produced a farcical end to the game as they knew as long as Senegal didn't score they'd be in the knockout rounds, so they passed it around and hoped for the best. It worked out for them and there has been criticism of the way they did it, but is...
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