There were scenes of celebration last night in Algeria after the World Cup Group draw created what many Algerian football fans and pundits are calling the easiest group ever!.
When the man who was helping deputy head of FIFA Charlize Theron, produced the slip which was inside Makhaya Ntini's little ball and read out Algeria to join England and USA in group number C, there were jubilant scenes in Algiers High Street and soon after the traditional chant of 'Easy, Easy, Easy' could be heard being sung by the crowds.
The draw which was shown live on the Algerian 24 hour football channel which is called 'The Algerian 24 hour football channel' was hosted by Algerian housewife's favorite Garat Lunaker, and was joined by Algerian football commentator Jonas Motason who as ever delivered fascinating stats as if his career depended on it. The lineup was completed by ex Algerian centre back (although he was born in Morocco) Markesh Lawrensonian who traditionally acted like the guy who would rather not be working midweek in between throwing out weak puns.
Motason pointed out ' incidentally Garat, this is not only the easiest draw we could have hoped for but this is probably the easiest group in world cup history'.while Lawrensonian quipped 'yeah, England, The Yanks and Slovenia must be quaking in their flip-flops already, at the thought of this group, there is always a group of death, and for those 3 teams this is it!'.
At the official Algerian football supporters club, the spokesman for the club Mustafa Victory said 'we should drift through the group stage with ease to be fair, you don't want to appear over confident, but its hard to think that Algeria won't win the World Cup now!'.
Bookmakers too have reacted to the draw with Algeria now being joint favorites to win the tournament with Spain at 3-1.
Even Theron felt compelled to comment 'now i don't really know what the hell I'm on about but i do feel sorry for the other teams in Algeria's group.....especially England, it means there is at least 3 footballing powerhouses in Group C, which i know is something Sepp wanted to make sure we avoided.......'.
England manager Fabio Capello had the last word though 'Its a shame, sometimes you get an easy ride sometimes you don't, i think i may have make a call to the family at Juventus, see what they can do for us.....if you know what i mean!?!'.
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