{"id":236,"date":"2007-10-07T08:09:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T06:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2007-10-07T08:09:25","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T06:09:25","slug":"rugby-world-cup-can-there-be-more-upsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/rugby-world-cup-can-there-be-more-upsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby World Cup &#8211; can there be more upsets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surely we cannot have a third upset in the Quarter Finals of World Cup?&#xA0; Here I am talking about Fiji beating us this afternoon.&#xA0; Both my heart and my head said this is impossible.&#xA0; Strangely I thought the same yesterday morning about yesterday&#8217;s games and we all know what happened.&#xA0; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikestopforth.com\/2007\/10\/06\/australia-vs-england-a-world-cup-of-upsets\/\">England send the Aussies packing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikestopforth.com\/2007\/10\/06\/bittersweet\/\">France said goodbye to the All Blacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least in my books, the result of the forth game would not be a real upset.&#xA0; It is already an upset that Argentina play&#8217;s in the quarters.&#xA0; The real upset would come when SA and Argentina meet next week in the Semis and Argentina beat us to reach the finals to play England.&#xA0; Wow, that would be one for the bookies. Wonder what odds I would get of this happening?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mariusb16\/1439353874\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Swellendam Mountains\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1387\/1439353874_7ef935d4bd.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em><font size=\"1\">Image:&#xA0; Swellendam Mountains by Marius Bock taken with Nokia N80<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2d32692c-c8e2-4a9f-b9d8-590e2e02e0a8\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags:  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/rugby%20world%20cup\/\" rel=\"tag\">rugby world cup<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/australia\/\" rel=\"tag\">australia<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/england\/\" rel=\"tag\">england<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/upset\/\" rel=\"tag\">upset<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/france\/\" rel=\"tag\">france<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/new%20zealand\/\" rel=\"tag\">new zealand<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/south%20africa\/\" rel=\"tag\">south africa<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/argentina\/\" rel=\"tag\">argentina<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/fiji\/\" rel=\"tag\">fiji<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/rugby\/\" rel=\"tag\">rugby<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/rwc2007\/\" rel=\"tag\">rwc2007<\/a> \t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surely we cannot have a third upset in the Quarter Finals of World Cup?&#xA0; Here I am talking about Fiji beating us this afternoon.&#xA0; Both my heart and my head said this is impossible.&#xA0; Strangely I thought the same yesterday <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/rugby-world-cup-can-there-be-more-upsets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Rugby World Cup &#8211; can there be more upsets?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}