Football's Coming Hound

7.15 - Steve and myself arrived semi-directly from work, via the KA, oddly enough to find Kevster and Graham in the pub garden. Whether this was to avoid another ear bleeding attack from death metal or take in the pleasant evening wasn't clear but we made ourselves comfortable. "Garden" is maybe a slightly flattering term for it, not being an enthusiastic smoker, I hadn't really been out back before, it's more of a yard, with a noisy vibrating thing and a strong smell of curry. Still, it was undoubtedly a pleasant evening and a happy hour or so was whiled away.

Naturally the conversation turned to the world cup and the one question for me that hasn't been answered, following the total domination of the last world cup in South Africa by Paul, the psychic octopus, which predictive cephalopod is going to come to the table this time? Will we get Sammy, the psychic squid or Colin the cognitive cuttlefish? Either could probably do better than me, Spain to win indeed.

No Daren this week, he was discharging responsibilities, and let's hope that's all so it was down to the four of us to get on with it. First up was flags of world cup countries and this was right up Graham's alley. Bafflingly though a collective blind spot left us failing to get Spain, think we got the rest though. Current affairs wasn't memorable, by me anyway, and surely the connections round had to be one of names of stadia, world cup captains, breeds of dog or types of cheese? Nope, it was flies, may, crane, dragon etc. bagged by Steve after 3 I think.

Films featured somewhere and on the 10 pointers, we got Michelle Mcmanus rose to "fame" (anyone remember Geraldine McQueen?) but a slight case of over thinking led us away from Kenneth Williams on most carry on films, can't remember who we did go for but we entered half time maybe slightly behind. An ongoing sweep on the time of the next goal in the Brazil game devised by Kevster was keeping us amused in the interim.

Suitably refreshed with beer and wotsits, we tackled the second half. Top 10 was a rather easy, name 10 world cup finalists and onto the business end of the wipeout. Key question here, which action figures were named after a film starring Robert Mitchum? Turned out to be GI Joe, though we did have some justification of our answer of Action Man as research shows that was what they were marketed as in the Uk. The film was the story of GI Joe though so fine answers such as Lonely Street, Tittle and Alfred Nobel were rendered moot.

Decent music though "Everybody's Talking" by Neilson evaded us. Having wiped out a win was out of the question, think we scraped second. No quiz next week as it's England v Uruguay and I guess future ones are dependant on the progress England make so Thursday 26th it is.