DOHA: For a brief, yet torturously long while last night, both fancy-passers Spain, and a long-lost Germany were exiting the Qatar World Cup. Together. A matter of a mere four minutes, previously immortalized in sport by Bannister and his Everest, the mile run. Thus, it was seemingly like eternity and all calculations, all elaborate plans, grand designs were being stuffed back into the overnight duffel bags of the mind.
Time to go too, or stay back and embrace the change, that much-needed egalitarianism of football? Cynics would call it the equalisation of the game, though that would be so unfair on the hopes and dreams of Japan and a brave Costa Rica.
