Things we can learn from

Firstly after the Ivory Coast played Japan in a pre-tournament warm up we discovered that you don't need to be 7ft tall and build like a tank to topple Didier Drogba. As I write it has been confirmed that he will not start against Portugal in his countries World Cup opener against Portugal. We also learned just before the kick-off that former Gunners legend Kolo Touré might be a proud international captain but a singer he definitely is not. Along with most sportsmen who are belting out the national anthem he doesn't seem to get embarrassed when the camera nears to them to reveal that they are 100% tone deaf and are possibly worse to listen to than a vuvuzela.

The next thing we learnt is that Lionel Messi doesn't always get his own way and you don't need to stand back and admire him when he is in possession. He does in fact make mistakes like all human beings (yes, it has been confirmed that he is one) and has been known to go an entire game without scoring a goal.

Quickly after all of this we learned something about Wayne Rooney. He played manfully all season at United without Emile Heskey to pass him the ball. And it turns out that he actually doesn't get to score in every game either and is also prone to playing a bad game. I find it a little curious that when he had two wingers passing him the ball, like say Nani and Valencia, that he scored loads but when his big brother who hasn't scored in months and has hardly played since Christmas comes into the game to help him, Rooney turns in a bad display and barely gets to shoot at goal.

In our last world cup lesson for today we should take a moment to admire the manoeuvrings of one Sven Goran Eriksson. Despite being generally cascaded by the British media for not winning the world cup with England and doing average at best in his subsequent posts with Manchester City, Notts County and Mexico he now finds himself quite a few million pound richer and also in charge of a team quite capable of doing some good work at the World Cup while his predecessor is still wondering how come a country the size of England has no decent goalie.

All of these things I hope won't have gone unnoticed by Wenger. Imagine if Arsenal got to play against Drogba twice next year knowing that he isn't unplayable, that Messi can be managed, that Rooney has bad games and that a reliable goalkeeper can be invaluable.

More school tomorrow.

P.S. For those of you wondering why there isn't so many articles appearing these days then you try to write about something other than Fabregas in a summer where the transfer rumours have pretty much stopped and the world cup hasn't quite yet kicked in.

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