World Cup 2010

Okay, I'm really trying, but this is a crazy game.  The entire first half there were only three scoring attempts, which is like watching snails nursing sore feet, and then the second half starts and Denmark scores on themselves.  What the hell?  And why is there a constant screaming drone in the background?  Seriously, what *is* that?

Did you know that while Canada surely sucks at international soccer, we engineered the grass seed for that field?  It's true.

i will apologize but in the U. S . we call it the  "world  coma"..  sorry not my line. heard it on the radio...personally i am rooting for the U.K.

GratefulFan wrote:

"Did you know that while Canada surely sucks at international soccer, we engineered the grass seed for that field?  It's true."

Wow, really?  Where'd you hear about that?  I'd love to read up on it.

Sorry, Amazon, that you feel so bad about your team losing but there are 2 more chances to move on to the next round.

@ Zebonka: the FIFA world cup is the biggest single sports event in the world. Football is played all over Europe, in South America, Asia and Africa. For example 28 millions out of 80 million Germans watched the first group match of our team - that is more than a third of the complete population from cradle to grave. You will find similar numbers in other football-crazy countries. We do not have cricket or rugby and only very few hockey and American Football teams. However, we do not laugh about other sports and we do not give them other names. "Soccer" is a word that was invented by the USA because they think  their own game needs the exclusive use of the word "football". But football has been played all over the world since the 19th century. It's Fussball, futbol, football in all languages because the teams play with a ball which is kicked with the feet  ;)  It is not allowed to touch the ball with your hands. On the other hand American football does not use a ball, they use some other item and this item is not kicked, it is carried and thrown. Only very few times the ball is actually kicked - so why they call it football I do not know but they do not need to use another word for "real" football.

On to the next round, I could not be more excited :-)

Us Dutchies played a rather bad match, but still won with 2-0. I guess that's a quality too. A quality which could make this team world champion (referring to Italy and Germany here).

Absolutely, Rick. Remember the UEFA cup in 2008 when Holland played 3 beautiful matches only to be kicked out early. Playing good matches is one thing - winning the cup is a totally different matter.

although the "bag of teasy wasps" were annoying when i first heard them i have grown to like them only because they drone out the inane ramblings of that Andy Gray  wannabe Scottish twat Craig Burley and "mr stumbles" Mark Bright.
Italy played crap last night which means they will be in the final and France have been the worse team so far which means they will go far too.
Personally i am cheering on South Korea,any team managed by a bloke called Mr Hu Moo gets my seal of approval :-D
ps,notice that i didnt mention England or Mr Margarine Green at all? only because England do this every World Cup and i look on the bright side and think "could be worse i could be a Scot" :-D

To us Scots, Craig Burley is nowhere near annoying as Scotland's finest "Englishman" Alan Hansen - born in Clackmannanshire, played for Partick Thistle, moved to Liverpool and gained an accent of indeterminate origin. Seriously, can you understand what he is on about?????

At least Hansen doesn't say "we" when referring to England, unlike certain part-time paddies working for the BBC.

So far the World Cup has been a huge bore: boring games, boring drone from those african horns, boring players, boring boring boring.

I haven't seen every match, but has We Will Rock You been sung yet? :P

I suspect Germany will get qutie far and im sure that Argentina or Brazil could make it to the final

Sir GH wrote: GratefulFan wrote: "Did you know that while Canada surely sucks at international soccer, we engineered the grass seed for that field?  It's true." Wow, really?  Where'd you hear about that?  I'd love to read up on it. ============================ http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100609/world-cup-soccer-100609/20100609/?hub=MontrealHome :)

From the comments in the above article: "You're going to need some good Canadian grass if you want to enjoy soccer!" ahhahahaha

I'm so happy for the New Zealanders. They definitely deserved a point.

JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote:

"Italy played crap last night which means they will be in the final"

Haha, it's true.  We all know (minus Italians, of course) that they cheated their way to the final 8 in 2006.