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Spain will win the World Cup. Period.
[&o]

Or not....

[8|]

With 40.000.000 of coachers this can be a real mess.. xDDD

ORIGINAL: traskott

Spain will win the World Cup. Period.
[&o]

Or not....

[8|]

With 40.000.000 of coachers this can be a real mess.. xDDD

Are you sure ? [:D]
I am agree with Jonathan (Cantona2) and LoBaron, 70% possesion and no goals = football match lost!. This is not the way to be the winner...
Will be best to departure with Kido Butai heading Java to smash all damns and sent them to hell

Your lack of faith annoy me...

I'm American. I like baseball, and our football. The last time I had anything to do with soccer was in physical education class in the early 1970s. I don't know the rules, let alone deep strategy or tactical options. I don't know the teams. I don't know how the WC is structured except there are a bunch of groups, and it's a Good Thing to "get out of yours." I just figured out, from observation, that once a player is substituted for he can't come back in (like baseball, but not basketball, football, or ice hockey.)

And yet, I can't stop watching the games. The Tivo has been busy. I've been watching an average of 1.5 a day all week. Despite the stupid horns, the audio commentary has been cool. It's nice to hear commentators with non-American accents (usually have to watch golf for that.) I'm a little sad my country will never take up soccer as a Thing and get into the WC as the rest of the world does.

I'm like Bullwinkle except I haven't watched one second of the World Cup...but I don't have television.  Even if I did, though, I wouldn't watch it.  There are only two sports I'll watch on television if I happen to be somewhere there's a TV available:  any baseball game involving the Atlanta Braves and any college football game involving the Georgia Bulldogs.

I haven't seen the Braves play since TBS decided to air games with other MLB teams playing (blasphemy!), but I almost never miss a nationally televised Georgia Bulldog football game. Go Dawgs! [&o]

BTW: Tom Label, no need to gloat!!!! [:-]

Hi all,

I watch all games on neighboring TV Slovenia (SLO2) - it is because my country's national TV (HTV2) still emits in 4:3 [:(] (and thus we get "LetterBox" 16:9 image in 4:3 with black bars up and won)...

Today I accidentally switched channel to our national channel during game and I suddenly noticed that annoying vuvuzelas are gone on SLO2!

They must have done it in past days and I simply overlooked it - it is so easy to adjust to better stuff! [:)]

They are filtering out the sound vuvuzelas make (it is said that the only frequency needed to be filtered out are 480 Hz and it's harmonic at 920 Hz) and you can normally hear the crowd cheering and referee whistling - finally normal football!!! [8D]


Leo "Apollo11"

ORIGINAL: aprezto

Warspite1 - you're a 'glass is half full' kinda guy something tells me, but hey, I certainly buy the sentiment.

However, I cannot tell you how excited that last goal got most of New Zealand - not because it can't be imagined but because in my case it involved me leaping out of bed and dancing around the bedroom... oh wait - mental picture created...

To say NZ deserved what they got is probably a little far fetched, but for the life of me, I cannot understand why Slovakia didn't push for the second rather than sit back and hold us at bay for a 1-nil score. But then again football isn't my most thoroughly understood game. To me they were clearly the more capable and dangerous team, and when the put the pressure on we were really struggling to hold them at bay, but, as so many that follow the game like to say: strange things happen in football.

I'm still trying to figure out how NZ conjured up enough players to make a team - let alone qualify for the World Cup!! You guys are top 2 or 3 in the world in rugby, close to top 5 in cricket, so surely most able bodied people from the teeny population base are already involved in one of those sports. That means only the half wits, geeks, freaks, and WitP addicts are left to play soccer.

Go KIWIS !!!

Time for a Bavaria! [;)]

Go orange, go . . .

Damn, that was a nice goal by Donovan.
You've got a good player in him.
He's so good he should be playing in Europe.

The Bradley kid's goal was nice as well, but we got jobbed on that disallowed goal... 

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

The Bradley kid's goal was nice as well, but we got jobbed on that disallowed goal... 

Watching this game I couldn't help thinking about Roy Jones Jr. in the Olympics.

RATS, Germany just lost against Serbia! ouch!!

Dern....I was going to watch that game tonight. [:(]

Oh well...it's not nearly as fun when you know the outcome....[:'(]

USA had an AMAZING game against Slovenia.. historical comeback. We should have won 3-2 but the referee cannot be referred to without explicit language.

ORIGINAL: briny_norman

Damn, that was a nice goal by Donovan.
You've got a good player in him.
He's so good he should be playing in Europe.

Warspite1

I dont want to take anything away from Donovan - great finish from such an acute angle - but.......

What was the goalkeeper doing exactly??? Has anyone EVER seen a goalkeeper (in a first class game of football) ACTUALLY DUCK OUT OF THE WAY BEFORE ??????? That was ridiculous[X(]

ORIGINAL: Flying Tiger

ORIGINAL: aprezto

Warspite1 - you're a 'glass is half full' kinda guy something tells me, but hey, I certainly buy the sentiment.

However, I cannot tell you how excited that last goal got most of New Zealand - not because it can't be imagined but because in my case it involved me leaping out of bed and dancing around the bedroom... oh wait - mental picture created...

To say NZ deserved what they got is probably a little far fetched, but for the life of me, I cannot understand why Slovakia didn't push for the second rather than sit back and hold us at bay for a 1-nil score. But then again football isn't my most thoroughly understood game. To me they were clearly the more capable and dangerous team, and when the put the pressure on we were really struggling to hold them at bay, but, as so many that follow the game like to say: strange things happen in football.

I'm still trying to figure out how NZ conjured up enough players to make a team - let alone qualify for the World Cup!! You guys are top 2 or 3 in the world in rugby, close to top 5 in cricket, so surely most able bodied people from the teeny population base are already involved in one of those sports. That means only the half wits, geeks, freaks, and WitP addicts are left to play soccer.

Go KIWIS !!!

Isn't this presupposing that WiTP addicts are from a different population base than half wits, geeks and freaks? Speaking for myself, I subscribe to more than one of these subgroup classifications. [;)]

When does the England v. Algeria game begin (eastern time)?  Miller, my opponent, will be watching it so I know I won't receive a turn in my inbox while that game is going on.  And if England somehow loses it might be 12 to 24 hours before I'll get a turn. 

It just started[:)]

Yes, it started 14 minutes ago. But my 6 year-old niece is at home so I can't watch the match (she is watching the @#@~#~cartoons) [:@]

[:D]