How I Amuse Myself When I Have Nothing Better To Do

I had an appointment this morning, and had to wait a while for it, so whilst sitting there I was wondering what I could put on here this morning. I really want to get my World Cup review things right (you'll find that they'll get more anecdotal as time goes on), and I haven't really got time for that today, so I needed something else. So... I'm going to offer my predictions (a bit later), but I thought I'd share a brief time-killing game I thought up for myself to pass a brief few minutes. It's pretty simple. List all 32 World Cup finals entrants, and sum them up in two words. I might forward this to the Foreign Office, should they need a quick and easy test to filter virulent xenophobes out of their recruitment process. Anyway, here's what I came up with:

Germany: Ruthlessly efficient
Poland: Zbignieuw Boniek
Costa Rica: Coffee plantations
Ecuador: Nice flag
England: Not AGAIN
Sweden: Ljungberg's hair
Paraguay: Lunatic goalkeeper
Trinidad & Tobago: Jamaica Lite
Argentina: Serial cheats
Holland: Always in-fighting
Ivory Coast: Dark horses
Serbia & Montenegro: Unwieldly name
Mexico: Sombrero hats
Angola: In Africa?
Iran: Internationally isolated
Portugal: Long hair
Italy: Hate penalties
Ghana: Military government
USA: Hate "soccer"
Czech Republic: Possibly robots
Brazil: Samba football
Croatia: Checked shirts
Australia: Football kangaroos
Japan: Tiny. Tiny.
France: Racial tension
Switzerland: Cuckoo clocks
Togo: TOGO! TOGO!
South Korea: One off
Spain: Constant failure
Ukraine: Orange revolution
Tunisia: Tunis cakes
Saudi Arabia: Oil money

I think it says more about me than it does about any of the competing countries. Sadly.