Alright, so Spain 1-3 France is not my predicted Spain 2-1 France, but that's is not the bloody POINT. Nice goal from ol' Zinedine, mind, dinking inside and coolly rolling the ball past the keeper. You'd never guess he was 57 this year.

This sets up a Brazil v France encounter next week. Those Brazilians had better shape up a bit - they've been doing an England so far, ticking all the boxes but convincing absolutely nobody that they will live up to their World Cup billing. If they get turned over by France it will bode incredibly badly. On the plus side, as with this game just gone, whichever side loses that game is one less side that can turn over England if we somehow beat Portugal.

I've been flicking between ITV and Channel 4 to try to catch as much of Big Brother as I can, having missed a week and a bit owing to World Cup action. What an impressive hatchet job they're doing on Richard this week. Granted a few people seem not to like him for being variously artificial and two-faced, as per every other Big Brother contestant in the history of the competition (as per every human being, I might venture, to a degree). Even so, I'm convinced Big Brother are trying to get this message across using every means at their disposal.

It's the little trailers at the end of each 15 minute segment which raise my suspicions. There's a quick 5-second burst of action from the next segment, under the banner "Coming Up", designed to keep you turned on, tuned in and dropped out. Twice in this instalment the "Coming Up" piece has been Richard saying something incredibly arsey. First it was him in the diary room nominating people: "Ooh, ooh, you'll like this one, hold onto your seats because you won't be expecting this one." Eejit. And second, him talking about Imogen: "Shall we watch some paint dry, or go and have a conversation with Imogen? Hmmm...". Plonker. Can't disagree with him, but plonker all the same.

Now is that Richard being so arsey so consistently that Big Brother simply can't find anything else he's done, or is that Big Brother editing the arsiness factor up a bit to compensate for the constant stupidity or tedium pumped out by the rest of them?

You know what? I'm going to make a prediction, cos I'm good at them. Must stop using italics like that, by the way, it's turning me into the blogging equivalent of Nikki, all this over-emphasis. Anyway, the prediction is that Aisleyne will get shunted into the new 'secret' Big Brother house on Friday, and Richard will depart the week after. Then he'll beat France 2-1 with a goal in the 78th minute. Promise.