Compiled by MARY HANNIGAN
Bad night: Tweet nothings for a drunken CroatSunday evening started well for the New York Giants Super Bowl winner David Diehl, who, as his tweets hinted, is of Croatian descent:
Tweet 1: “Goooooaaaaaallllllllllllllll!!!!!”
Tweet 2: “Goooooaaaaaallllllllllllllll!!!!!”
Tweet 3: “3-1 #hrvatska.” (Croatia).
But then? According to the New York Post he was was busted for DWI (driving while intoxicated) in Queens – with his blood-alcohol level allegedly more than twice the legal limit – after smashing into parked cars . . . Diehl had been celebrating a few blocks away at Scorpio’s on Broadway while watching a soccer match.
In crowded company: Iniesta joins Maradona and Messi as a marked man
To most observers Andres Iniesta’s performance against Italy on Sunday was a touch outstanding, but he wasn’t overly happy himself after the game, labelling the pitch a “disaster”. With a little bit of luck, and no small amount of prayer, he won’t find the surface to his liking on Thursday.
That Italy attempted to mark Iniesta rather closely is evident from this very lovely photo posted by Javier Matallanas on Twitter.
Memories of those iconic Diego Maradona (against Belgium in 1986) and Lionel Messi (against South Korea in 2010)? Granted, they were both on the ball in their pictures, but even when Iniesta wasn’t in possession the Italians still had five men around him: respect.
Slippery poll
Granted, expectations of England have been a little lower than usual going in to this tournament, but still, this poll on The Reading Evening Post’s website, as spotted by The Guardian yesterday, seemed just a little, well, downbeat
Mario just super
He might have broken our hearts, but, need it be said, Mario Mandzukic proved somewhat popular in the Croatian press yesterday.
It's the Sun wot drew it
Parisians on their way to work yesterday morning would, have done a double-take when they passed the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe. “Before they could say ‘Zut alors!’ we had wheeled out our projector and beamed the flag on the 324m structure,” revealed The Sun.
