Drama in Delhi as England get to the semi finals.

We had our last two days in Delhi before moving out of the city for some sightseeing, they were a mixed affair, I went into work on the Friday to offices in Gurgaon, which is just half an hour outside of Delhi, it was good to catch up with people I'd only had email and phone calls with although really needed more than a day.

My dad made the most of the time without me to have a lazy day discovering some nearby parks and admiring the local construction industry, something which I'm trying to get him to write a guest post on. With the Commonwealth games in October virtually the whole city shows signs of some building work     and it is hard to see them being ready in time. The hockey stadium was only just ready and outside of the pitch area there's still a lot to do, plus what they have done shows obvious signs of being rushed and should be ripped up, at least the pitch seems to have settled down from the first days play when it was rather bobley. 

We'd decided to stay in Delhi until the England vs India game and it was worth the wait, a packed house of around 15,000, with no more than a dozen obvious England fans made us feel a little outnumbered but never threatened. When we scored it felt a little surreal being the only person to stand up and cheer and you have a feel partly sorry for India, such a passionate crowd who expect so much but the team simply isn't up to competing with the top teams at this level at the moment.

The game went pretty much as planned although we should of been at least two more goals up by half time, a couple of sitters were missed and it wasn't till near the end that India got into the game, their skipper failing to get hold of a sitter from a cross in the last minute which would of drawn the game, so it ended at 3-2 and were in the semis.

The issue now is it's most likely to be either Germany or Holland, who play tonight in their group game, I think we have a chance but it'll be an outside one mainly due to Mantell missing, his long balls from the back deep into the corners were dearly missed lastnight, still as were back for the final let's hope we do get through.