World Cup Nightmare

What is one supposed to do now...

1. Germany. I like Germany - nice food,  nice people, nice country quite sensible on things not related to energy or comedy. But not when it comes to football, after all, they always win and normally with some style, which as an England fan, is desolating.

2. Argentina - Beautiful country, nice food, but large prediliction for cheating and unprovoked military attacks. Nil points, can't ever support them.

3. Holland - Boring country, nice but worthy people, say they play stylish football but seems to involve a lot of fouling and cheating (esp. Arjen Robben) in actualite. 

A Germany-Argentina final means that I'd be cheering on Germany, ouch. A Germany-Holland final means what? Probably for me supporting Germany.

I don't like this position. I don't like this position at all. 

(Comments saying don't watch it or care as I have really enjoyed the world cup [certainly after last night's result no one can ever claim its fixed!] I will just delete them).



What is the right call to make in this sad situation?

England should lose to Algeria to secure gas supplies

Not very patriotic for our football team, but few int his country probably know about the vast Algerian Gas reserves. These are real too, not like the fantasy oil reserves in Saudi or the expensive and yet to be tested shale gas.

The prospect of shale gas has in Europe has kept gas prices in the UK low. Despite our total lack of investment in new Gas fired powerstations we are a high gas consuming nation. The LNG platform means that the UK can rely on Gas to keep help keep the lights on when we crazily switch of our Nuclear capacity.

But the UK's own dwindling supplies of gas are not enough and in future we have often been told we will need to rely on Russia for supplies. We can't bully Russia or trust it to act fairly. Luckily Algeria is much closer and has supplies that can reach Europe easily.

All we need to do is strengthen relations now and play the long game. The first step could be allowing them to progress in the World Cup. Perhaps we should lend them our goalkeeper as their's is accident prone?

UPDATE: DO YOU BELIVE ME NOW?!