United Kingdom 38-35 Argentina

This is not Ashley Borland's first match as QB, but maybe his most important, and while some pundits may need convincing on his suitability to replace Corey McMillan, I am firmly settled. While the completion stats were lowish, this does not tell the whole story, and when the chips were down, Ashley came up with the goods, throwing a crucial TD pass to level the scores late in the 4th quarter, before leading an overtime drive to within field goal range to take the game.

The Argentine forum were highly inflamed and roused by this result, showing how much the UKNT is still the team to beat even after our recent slump. And as well they ought to be, as on another day the win would surely have been theirs. Their defence shut us down again and again yielding just two TDs in the first half. The second half opened up a little more, with no team failing to make it to the end zone until the 4th quarter. The UK equalled the scores with 3.40 left on the clock, and our D made a vital hold on the 65 yard line to keep us in the game, and take it to overtime.

We won the coinflip and made it downfield with the help of a 37 yard Christopher Jamie Duffy catch (that's one yard short of the record for a non-scoring completion). Though we were stumped on the 82 yard line, Jayden Jack Kemp put over the field goal to take the win for UK.

Next up is Portugal, managed by our own Vince Everett. Tune in on the 27th folks.

GG Portugal

On to Colombia - UK are 10-14 down after 12 mins. A very rare exchange occurred just here with two successive failed 4th down conversions. It gives me great pleasure to be involved in a game where both managers really throw down the gauntlet and go for it.

Colombia 06:34
4th-2-COL57
Pass
Jorge Hernández pass incomplete to Julian Gualé.
3rd-2-COL57
Pass
Jorge Hernández pass under pressure from Gordon Parkes. Incomplete.
2nd-2-COL57
Pass
Jorge Hernández pass incomplete to Julian Gualé.
1st-10-COL49
Pass
Jorge Hernández pass to Juan Gabriel Gómez for 8 yards.

United Kingdom 09:00
4th-1-UNI51
Pass
Ashley Borland pass incomplete to Matthew Thornton.
3rd-10-UNI42
Pass
Ashley Borland pass to Matthew Thornton for 9 yards.
2nd-10-UNI42
Pass
Ashley Borland pass incomplete to Christopher Jamie Duffy.
1st-10-UNI42
Pass
Ashley Borland pass under pressure from Jaiber Cardona. Incomplete.

Nice finish, a little too nip and tuck, unlike the USA vs Canada score...sheesh.

And I don't understand the New Zealand vs Argentina result either. Two bot defences in a row from New Zealand, but Argentina fielded a bot defence as well, so the score ended up 119-112.