There’s been a bit of dis­cus­sion up here at Wel­ling­tonista Towers as to just who we should be sup­port­ing in the World Cup. We need a team with whom we Wel­ling­to­ni­ans can identi­fy with – soc­cer­’s equi­val­ent of the Hur­ricanes: a team that blows hot and cold; a team full of star names, but who inev­it­ably fall at the final hurdle; a team that are a joy to watch, but typ­ic­ally lose to more dour, joy­less sides.

To that extent, we came up with a short-list of four: Hol­land, Spain, Por­tugal and Mex­ico. All these teams have been frus­trat­ing their fans for years, mak­ing the lat­ter stages on rel­at­ively reg­u­lar occa­sions, only to lose to more meth­od­ic­al plod­ders like Ger­many or Italy, or fall­ing to the pereni­ally bril­liant Brazili­ans.

At the moment, we’re veer­ing towards Spain, partly because they’re sure to be a good source of sport­ing ups and downs, but mostly because they’re our Earth Sand­wich part­ner, and if that does­n’t count for some­thing, what does? Any votes from any­one else?

And, tell you what, there’s some ‘inter­est­ing’ hits for “World Cup” on Google image search. Keep your eyes on the ball, son!