Rest easy people - the two day football embargo is coming to an end as Uruguay and France kick off the quarter final clashes on Friday.
The quarter finals are the point in any tournament where dreams start to become a reality. The remaining eight teams in the FIFA World Cup will all fancy themselves as a potential finalist - but Uruguay vs France in the first of the four ties is a showdown between two sides playing to win.
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France came into the tournament as one of the names tipped to win it after a strong qualifying campaign, and have shown nothing so far to suggest they won't go on and do just that - especially with the herd of heavyweights now thinned after the premature departures of Germany and Spain.