Ah, in the end it felt like a fairly uncontroversial semi. I'm glad not to have to wake up at 5am next week though here in Australia - we'll chime in when we wake up at 6 and catch the last of it, and hope it doesn't go to penalities so we can make it to work.

I love the world cup so much - it does what it says, re connecting people, but then we don't have Argentinians as neighbours, haha, only a French woman who we have not seen since they lost. We could only dream of France v England to drink wine with the neighbours, but what a pipe dream.

Don't Argentians have a religion around football? As in, literally, the Maradonian church? :P

I loved the camera pan to the ecstatic Argentinian fans and the crying English knights. Two polar emotions.

I love how you get history, politics, sport, everything in the world game. Bring on the next four years.

My English husband isn't too sad - he thinks England did well to get where they were, and they could never beat Argentina.