Countdown to World Cup

IT'S just 12 days to the Fifa World Cup - that's 288 hours or 17,280 minutes. The wait is, to put it simply, excruciating.

As you can tell, I'm all geared up for the 64 matches over the month-long tournament, even if it means getting up - or, likely for most nights, not even getting to sleep before kick-off - to catch as much of the action as I can.

Heck, I've already locked myself into a two-year contract with my cable TV provider until 2016 to avoid paying the quite-ludicrous $112 World Cup subscription fee, so I definitely want to get my money's worth.

Over the last few weeks, I've been busy trying to collect all 640 stickers in the new World Cup sticker album; I'm just a handful away from comp…