World Cup 2010

[vansmack]

BTW - with Essien out, I'm pretty certain now that not a single African team will make it out of the first round.  I suppose Cote d'Ivoire has a chance if Portugal continues to struggle, but I think it's a distinct possibility.

I'm not saying, I'm just reminding folks that well before the tournament started I said this.

It really comes down to Ghana getting a result against a must-win German squad and I just don't see that happening.

[RonniStar]

I wish I had printouts of this to handout tonight:

Another example of how S.I. doesn't have the print media curse market cornered!

[walkonby]

i watched a good bit of the brazil / ivory coast game . . . mainly thinking, "the ivory coast has a team?"  good game though.  i love it when players fake injuries and such, wriggling around on the ground and such, just to eat up the clock at the end. 

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Ivory Coast has to be the sorriest team I've seen in this entire tournament. Those last 10 minutes were so pathetic, they dove at everything. Fifa should punish that referee for giving Kaka the red card. That one guy on the Ivory Coast who got 2 yellow for stomping 2 players shins, because it DEFINETELY did not look like he was making a play for the ball. Ivory Coast deserved to get stomped, Brazil made those goals look insanely easy. I wasn't rooting for Brazil once during the game until the end.


and, USA! USA! USA!

[hutch]

south american nations (Arg, Bra, Uru, Para, Chile) - correct me if I'm wrong- have a record of
8 wins and 2 ties in 10 matches so far and have only conceded 4 goals.

All five should go through...

[sweetcell]

almost as bad as the officiating at USA-SVN and BRA-CIV: the quality of announcing.  some of their anecdotes and attempts at cutesy humor are down-right painful.  personally, i prefer to keep my sports and my dad humor separate.  "a goal by shambalala - now there's a name just waiting to have a song written for it!".  ugh.

on the upside, they dropped the "ONE GAME CHANGES EVERYTHING" tag-line after the second day of the tournament.  gawd that was annoying, and you could hear that the european announcers weren't nuts about having to say it every 5 minutes.

[godsshoeshine]

south american nations (Arg, Bra, Uru, Para, Chile) - correct me if I'm wrong- have a record of
8 wins and 2 ties in 10 matches so far and have only conceded 4 goals.

All five should go through...

very impressive. gutted for the african nations though

[DeathFromAbove1979]

South Africa!! wahooo!!

[lagas]

Apparently, Messi and Tevez want Oasis to come back together...

http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/index.php/2010/06/22/lionel-messi-and-carlos-tevez-vow-to-reform-oasis

[hutch]

Dissapointed in Argentina today... Veron is a disaster.. a one man wrecking crew...

NO ideas.. little use of the wings which was the way to play this one.. Clemente Rodriguez my favorite player today and he surely wont start against Mexico

Messi needs to start putting the ball in the back of the net or Argentina is going nowhere.. Call an exorcist urgently!

[Got Haggis?]

not looking good for the US right now.  england up 1-0 - US missing too many opportunities (even though one goal was discounted that should have been a goal)

[DeathFromAbove1979]

x.x Im not even watching the game and Im stressing out, those limey pricks are up 1-0! We need another 3, errr, 2 goal half!! USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

[DeathFromAbove1979]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lagas]

AMAZING

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Im about to cry at work LEZGO USA!!!