And now the plot thickens even further with Ghana...

I am now convinced, given several hours doing other things and thinking about it, that we have witnessed a bought-and-paid-for fixed World Cup match this morning in Brasilia.

Information from a Dirty Tackle blog on Yahoo! Sports post indicates the situation surrounding the Ghana soccer team now clicks all the checkmarks to indicate today's match with Portugal was a bought and paid-off farce.

Last night, this surreal scene played out...

(Source:  BBC Africa Twitter)



"Here's the $3m cash owed to Ghana's World Cup team, being carried in convoy through Brasilia (Photo via @rede_globo)"

Rede Globo is a Brazilian television network.

Then, before the game today, THIS surreal scene went viral at about 5:30 AM Pacific (USA) time this morning...

(The source of the photo is unclear -- the Twitter account (an unofficial World Cup Twitter feed) gives no attribution, and neither, apparently, did the Yahoo! post.)



"Ghana's John Boye seen kissing his $100K stack from $3mil share. #GHA"

The evidence mounts, world.

John Boye would, in the match, score an own goal to aid Portugal, and, hence, the United States of America.