Congratulations to Morocco on their seismic achievement. Commiserations meanwhile to Germany. What a World Cup this is turning out to be, huh? Thanks for reading this MBM and we hope to see you again for the knockouts.
All of a sudden, the travails of the USA don’t seem quite as hellish. Hey, at least they’ve scraped through to the knockouts. Here’s the latest edition of Moving the Goalposts, which addresses what the defending champions have to do if they’re not to go home unexpectedly early like Germany and Brazil.