Tomorrow, the twelfth at 11:30 Pacific, USA v England - ABC TV.

Someone should create an audio filter to silence those irritating vuvuzela background drone

Is Beckham playing for England?  If so the US better not foul within forty yards of their goal .

olderndirt wrote on Jun 11^th, 2010 at 9:52pm:


Nope Beckham is out of the squad but we've got the likes of Gerrard or Lampard that can easily match him in the freekick area., Its going to be a tough one tonight.

My version of entertaining Football...>>>>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/10300702.stm

World Cup winners?

Paul.... ... ... ...!

US defeats England 1-1.

This game was very similar to the war of 1812. Titan England tries to defeat new upstart United States, where the US fighting to a draw does feel like a victory.

specter177 wrote on Jun 12^th, 2010 at 6:37pm:

I'm assuming you didn't actually watch the game lol

I did watch the game. I was trying to write a little pun, since we were supposed to lose. Oh, well.

olderndirt wrote on Jun 13^th, 2010 at 10:46am:

They keep complaining about the new ball and the players and goalies hate it. Actually today a goalie was in tears for the new ball but adidas said its the most accurate ball ever produced...
http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/news/controversy-over-world-cup-ball-...

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Also for those who hate the horns, read this article below...you'll be really happy...
http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Vuvuzelas-migh...

Some good games today, Watched Germany crush Austrailia 4-0. The Serbia and Ghana game was good at the end also. A serbia player did an intentional hand ball on a corner kick for Ghana which resulted in a penalty kick for Ghana in the 83rd minute. Ghana scored and won the game 1-0.  As for Algeria v Slovenia (England and U.S. were hoping for a draw between these two) but Slovenia won and took the lead in Group C which put England and U.S. in a tough position.

Has anyone seen Theis lately 

Holland 2
Denmark 0

Best man on the field......Simon Poulsen

Souichiro wrote on Jun 14^th, 2010 at 9:43am:

Zip it...! 

But hey, atleast Denmark made a goal..

Wow...

Paraguay 1 vs. Italy 1....

Im glad I didnt pick Italy to go to the final round in my bracket.

And how about Japan winning today...upsets today or what...

Im suprised North Korea is even in the world cup.....

Well, that was unexpected.
2-1 to Brazil, one of the best teams in the world; against one of the worst in the world, well done North Korea for that.

Oh and if you didnt hear, FIFA will NOT ban the vuvuzela's.....thankfully.  FIFA gets it although im not sure how noone else does. No matter what even if its annoying its part of the South African Soccer. Its just something they do in South Africa, otherwise they shouldn't have had the World Cup there. If you talk to some soccer analysts they think that its part of the game. Other countries have other ways to make noise and it could or could not be annoying. When you pack a house full of 90,000 fans its just stupid to say that nothing will annoy someone. Either way something will annoy someone and for the soccer players to complain seems stupid also. If you play soccer around the world, how can a noise distract you?  Countries have so many ways to express noise whether its annoying or not. They should be thankful they are playing in the World Cup, not finding ways to make excuses as to why they play bad. 

...although the soccer ball on the other hand....I think that's an okay excuse since it seems almost all the soccer players are complaining about it.

Maybe another reason I dont want to get it banned is because I like the sound. Im in consideration of buying one...

Also if you have an iPod Touch or iPhone, search for vuvuzela app. 

South Africa plays tomorrow. Its gunna be a crazy house full with vuvuzela's for sure. 

Spain 0 :Switzerland 1
What is happening?
The US draw with England...Italy draw with Paraguay...the N.Koreans manage to get a goal against the most successful national football team in the world! I think there will be quite a few surprises yet to come, however.

Still angry over the England vs. USA game though  , we should have whooped your guys arses! Haha

The swiss result has just thrown the competition into a complete unknown. Everyone had Brazil and spain meeting in the finals. That is now a lot less likely to happen from what I understand and more likely to take place in the next round. could open up the door for a shock final.

^Haha...I don't think I'd be too surprised if N.Korea got into the semi-finals. Their game against Brazil was a real eye opener.

I think it'll be an Argentina vs. Germany final.

I heard that because so many national teams have experienced European coaches (Nigeria have Lagerback, Ivory coast have Eriksson etc.) it's leveled the playing field between most of these nations. Also, lots of the players now play for clubs in top English, German, Italian and Spanish leagues, so they're all very well trained.

The way that North Korea play they'll get two draws and they can't go into the next round with two points.

Bafana Bafana are the first team to practically be eliminated. 1 pt after two game is generally not enough.

Today is going to be interesting

Argentina and South Korea can both be sure of the next round if they win this game. All bets are on the Argentinians but korean discipline might ruin things. Greece and Nigeria must win for a last chance.... a draw isn´t good enough there! I thing Nigeria will take that one.


Also France vs Mexico..... a win to be relatively sure of the next round..... Mexico is going to win....

I thought Ji Jun Nams (did I get it right?) goal for North Korea was pretty good...especially if you think that the N.Korean team had such a small budget they were unable to hire a football pitch to train on haha.

I'm still pretty sure it'll be an Argentina vs. Germany final. I'd like to see England in the finals...but it is quite unlikely, although I think we'll get better as things start hotting up. I don't get how people seem to think Gareth Barry is going to make a real difference though?

I think tonights match will be France 2: Mexico 0.

Call od Duty is fun while playing during the france -  mexico game XD  Viva la Mexico!!

tcco94 wrote on Jun 17^th, 2010 at 9:38pm:



Ehm I think you mean Germany then...only a slight difference between the two

England will win today...The Algerian goalie is even worse than the English one 

The germans will win and slovenia vs us of a....probably the us but very uncertain

Just saw a SAAB Gripen on its way to PE, patrolling the airspace where they play today...

The England v Algeria game was possibly the worst game I've ever seen! The saturday league team I played in when I was 8 could have won!

specter177 wrote on Jun 18^th, 2010 at 7:37pm:

If I recall from sport center correctly,they are not allowing that ref(even though rated Number 1 in their country, is not being allowed to referee anymore World Cup games.

Poor North Korea.
Took a bit of a thrashing.

Looks like France will be eliminated today.

RSA 2 FRA 0---40'

Group A will get their deserved winners then 

US please please please do not get eliminated...

A very lucky win for Both teams today, should be good to see who we both get after tonight's game.

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I dont think US winning in the 91th minute was luck at all. I think it was them getting paid back for all the blown calls on them that shouldove been goals. If both of those goals counted (which they should have since they were clean) they would have had 2 wins and advanced even if they tied Nigeria.

Great come back, and by one of my favorite US players Donovan...I remember when he was the San Jose Earthquakes years ago.

Italy eliminated....wow

Poor US 
Ghana is soooo fast.

Brazil all the way now ! 

Well we're out... to be fair, England played badly; and some of Germany's goals were amazing, so well done Germany. I sure do hope they look into that goal which actually went in though.

Uruguay all the way now!

Some day America will win the World Cup.

The next day everyone in America will ask, "What's the World Cup?"

olderndirt wrote on Jun 27^th, 2010 at 10:57pm:

Not surprising since the World Series is strictly American (and one Canadian team).

They love it in Mexico, Philippines and Japan though.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

It didn't, according to Fifa.

Havent seen any big upsets or anything. Looking good for my bracket prediction of Brazil vs. Germany

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Why is it that Tesco can tell when i walk out with a DVD, but FIFA can't tell if the ball is between the posts?

Ha ha brilliant.

WHOHOO!!!!!!!!!! 2-1 for tha Dutchies!!!! Fireworks going off everywhere 

YES! Thank God I'm 1/8 Dutch! I have a team to be proud of! 

Man, that Argentine goalie Sucks! Almost every goal Germany just waltzed it in!

I got my bet on the Netherlands today.

FANTASTIC,OUTSTANDING BRILLIANT!!!!

Now I'm glad that I don't leave for england till the 12th! XD

Rich H wrote on Jul 6^th, 2010 at 6:06pm:



Well the magic octopus predicted otherwise....It's hong to be Spain vs The Netherlands!

The atmosphere is incredible

even though you can't understand the language just look at the atmosphere in this team!

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1028061/ed98fcbf/op_schoot_bij_jack.html

Souichiro wrote on Jul 7^th, 2010 at 6:31am:

The octopus was right again.

Nice one Spain there.
Can't wait for Sunday!!!

Germany > Uruguay

C'mon Holland!!! 

This is Nervewrecking!


Best man on the field for spain.....Howard Webb

A game that deserved no loser....so extra painful that we lost in the dying minutes......Congrats to spain I guess

Sigh... we lost. Spain was better. Although the Dutch team (literally) tried to kick them off the field, the Spanish didn't budge and had the ref on their side.

They are on their way home. Tomorrow there will be a big party in Amsterdam for no reason...

Carlo

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Well you have to be proud of the Dutch team for making the finals. I would have thought Brazil would have went, not the Netherlands. Although sad to see them lose for the third time in a final. They're due for a World Cup now..

But a pretty interesting article about what we should see in the next World Cup...and he says no more Paul the Octopus...
http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Ten-things-we-...