Soccer shock

The whole country was in a state of shock after Japan got beaten so badly by Australia. At school, nobody was talking about it. I mentioned it in class to illustrate the word 'terrible', and was met by a wall of silence. One of the teachers whispered to me that everyone was too upset by the result to speak about it. The reason is that Japan have to win against Croatia and Brazil to make it through to the next round, and their chances of doing that are fairly slim. The other reason is that Japan didn't play very well in the Australia game - even I could see that and I don't know much about soccer. I thought one of the All Blacks had wandered out onto the pitch until I had it explained to me that he was the referee. To be honest, I spend most of the game comparing the players' haircuts and deciding which one is the best-looking.