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Game 5: South Korea 2-0 Germany : 27th June, Kazan
Game 6: Mexico 0-3 Sweden : 27th June, Ekaterinburg

Well, just to piss on my punditry parade, Sweden have won the fecking group haven't they!

Group F: South Korea 1-2 Mexico
Rostov, 23rd June

This was the clincher really, could South Korea find any kind of form and could Mexico play decent football that wasn't based on "defend and break", the answers to those 2 questions are not really and yes.

Group F: Germany 2-1 Sweden
Sochi, 23rd June

The game where Germany nearly left the World Cup in the group stages, they cut it very very fine but thanks to a superb Toni Kroos freekick their fate is in their own hands.

Well, I can't believe I devoted my afternoon to this, it was turgid.

I spent my early afternoon in Mudeford, being bought a lovely Father's Day lunch in the Noisy Lobster, and then got some Purbeck ice cream (can I just say, the salted caramel ice cream is just UNBELIEVABLY good!) from the stand on the front there. On the way back we survived some massively suicidal (and if it had been successful, homicidal to the beast pack) driving from the other drivers on the M27 and got back home in time to have a coffee and settle down for what had the potential to be a really good game of football.