UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

UPDATE 7 July 2010

So the Sacred World Cuppa Theory has gone down the drain after 48 years, or perhaps it hasn’t?

Maybe the theory need to be amended as follows:

Since 1962, European teams will triumph if the tournament is held in a time zone similar to Europe’s, otherwise, South Americans would.

So for 2010, since South Africa is in a similar time zone to Europe, a European team would lift the Cup.

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5 July 2010

Uruguay has not won the World Cup for 60 years – I wonder if people who actually saw the match live are still around – if they do, they’re probably heavy users of face creams by now.

Even though they are 2-time world champions, on the face of it, Uruguay would seem to be headed for almost certain elimination in the semifinals on 6th July 2010 when they face mighty Holland.

However, there’s a thing called “The Sacred World Cuppa Theory” which had been proven right for 48 years, which says in gist:

Since 1962, Europe and South America would take turns to win the World Cup, and following along the same lines, whenever the tournament is held in Europe, a European team will win the Cup, but if anywhere else, a South American team will.

For this to be true, Uruguay will have to achieve 2 Mission Impossibles. First, it will have to defeat high-riding Netherlands in the semis. If they manage that, they’d then face off with either Germany / Spain in the final on 11th July.

One might say this will never happen, but after witnessing the several Mission Impossibles South Korea achieved in 2002, I’d say: nothing’s impossible.

Still not convinced / you’d rather ask Paul the Psychic Oberhausen Octopus?

Consider these cases:

World Cup 1994: Brazil v Italy final. It was the first ever World Cup final to be decided by a penalty shoot-out. Roberto Baggio took Italy’s fifth and last penalty, but skied his shot. To be fair to him Franco Baresi and Daniele Massaro had already missed their penalties. But had he scored, Italy would’ve drawn level 3-3 and could’ve very well edged out Brazil – but as a little bird said, the Gods of World Cuppa descended from the heavens and made sure Baggio – the undisputed best Italian player during that world cup, the fourth-highest all-time top scorer for Italy, the only Italian player ever to score in three World Cups – missed the most important kick of his whole career.

World Cup 2010: it was the quarterfinals and Brazil had already crashed out earlier. The Gods of World Cuppa must’ve known that Argentina and Paraguay would also follow suit the next day, and chose Uruguay to continue to be the torchbearer for South American football. So, on 2nd July 2010, at the final minute of extra time, Dominic Adiyiah’s goalbound header was stopped by Luis Suarez on the line, deliberately with his hands (hence the legend of the Second Hand of God was born). So Suarez was sent off, and Ghana awarded a surely match-winning penalty. So who’d be the best person to take it? Who else but the Black Stars’ top scorer Asamoah Gyan. As legend would have it, to be retold for generations to come, the Gods of World Cuppa descended from the heavens yet again, and lowered the goal’s crossbar by a few millimetres, resulting in Gyan’s penalty hitting it, to the utter dismay of the entire African continent.

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