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Posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jun 12 16:33:03 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by busdude2 on Sat Jun 12 16:25:27 2010. It was a good game. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 16:36:15 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jun 12 16:31:39 2010. I was really surprised at how the USA dominated possession in the 1st half yet England were clearly at an advantage. In the 2nd half England dominated possession and were just better all the way around. Altidore easily could have scored on that one run, but other than that it was poor finishing by England that cost them the match. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 16:42:00 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by busdude2 on Sat Jun 12 16:25:27 2010. Ok. Not everyone has to like every sport. I enjoyed it. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jun 12 16:42:35 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 16:36:15 2010. Well, our only goal was less than spectacular. The English goalie had better hope he does not run in to any Hooligans down there. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 16:55:05 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jun 12 16:42:35 2010. If England finish first in the group then it won't be as bad. If they somehow manage not to advance to the next round or even if they finish second, it will be historical. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jun 12 16:58:45 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 16:42:00 2010. Exactly. Unfortunately, there are too many like him who lash out against soccer.Tampa is running activities around town to lure the World Cup her in 2018, hoping our stadium gets some of the games. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 17:02:16 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jun 12 16:58:45 2010. I think that part of is is that people feel that it's somehow patriotic to bash soccer. |
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Posted by cortelyounext on Sat Jun 12 17:23:39 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jun 12 16:33:03 2010. Yeah, that was riveting... it ranks somewhere south of watching paint dry. Are you serious? |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jun 12 17:32:48 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by cortelyounext on Sat Jun 12 17:23:39 2010. It was exciting. |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jun 12 18:27:14 2010, in response to Re: BAFANA BAFANA 1 Mexico 1 Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by SMAZ on Fri Jun 11 12:02:03 2010. I hope Mexico gets eliminated soon anyway.Funny, I share similar thoughts for the Italian team. |
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Posted by 9 local on Sat Jun 12 18:30:44 2010, in response to Re: BAFANA BAFANA 1 Mexico 1 Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jun 12 18:27:14 2010. Les Bleus suck. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 18:33:57 2010, in response to Re: BAFANA BAFANA 1 Mexico 1 Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jun 12 18:27:14 2010. Why? They aren't our rival. |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jun 12 18:39:31 2010, in response to Re: BAFANA BAFANA 1 Mexico 1 Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 18:33:57 2010. Why? They aren't our rival.I'm one of those Haitians with a small bit of Francophilia, so France is a civilized first world nation and Italy isn't. :-) |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 18:51:53 2010, in response to Re: BAFANA BAFANA 1 Mexico 1 Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jun 12 18:39:31 2010. Oh then that makes sense. :)I didn't watch the game but I read that France looked really, really poor. Like they didn't even belong in the cup. They appear to be alternating between great and crap every other cup. |
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Posted by 9 local on Sat Jun 12 18:57:09 2010, in response to Re: BAFANA BAFANA 1 Mexico 1 Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jun 12 18:39:31 2010. France shouldn't even be in this Cup. They cheated their way into the cup. Thierry Henry is such a hypocrite for trying to have a handball called on Uruguay. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 12 19:01:05 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 16:42:00 2010. So did I. I liked that it was 1.5 hours of PLAYING and not commercials. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 12 19:05:41 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jun 12 16:31:39 2010. How frustrating, sitting through hours of people running around, and end in a tie? How anticlimactic. What a strange sport. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 12 19:07:48 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 12 19:05:41 2010. It's not frustrating. |
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Posted by busdude2 on Sat Jun 12 19:10:11 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 12 19:07:48 2010. No it's boring ! |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 12 19:10:51 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by busdude2 on Sat Jun 12 19:10:11 2010. Yes, boring and then totally anticlimactic at the end. A tie. Good grief. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 12 19:13:16 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 12 19:10:51 2010. That's not anticlimactic. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 19:26:09 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 12 19:10:51 2010. Why are you harping on ties? You claim to like hockey and it's the same thing. One point for a tie and three points for a win. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 12 19:34:02 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jun 12 17:32:48 2010. I agree. I'm happy with the result. Tim Howard was EPIC. It's looking good. As for the English and their arrogance, they can eat shit and die.Their tabloids were mocking us before the match. The Sun had thess front page headline Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth! How's that crow cake? |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 19:38:20 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 12 19:34:02 2010. Regarding the first one, they are in a very easy group aren't they? Even Lalas said that this is the easiest group that the US has even drawn. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 12 19:40:15 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 17:02:16 2010. Even if one doesn't care for the sport they should get behind the US National Team at World Cup time. It's about national honor.As of today, an English person can brag all they want about how "great" their football is but we can still shove in their face the fact that haven't beat us in two tries at the WC to shut them the fuck up. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 12 19:49:12 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 19:38:20 2010. I don't have a problem with the headline at the time of the draw but they we mocking us in the other one. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 12 19:58:45 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jun 12 16:31:39 2010. SMAZ was right that US-England would end in a tie. I'm sure the US didn't play as well as he wanted them to.We came alive in the last 5 minutes. England made a lot of goal attempts, failed, and that had to psyche them out a little. Our defense held up better than I expected. I thought that Bradley would have started Buddle (or Gomez) instead of the useless Findley. I was glad to see Gooch go 90 minutes. I didn't put it in my prediction, but I was anticipating that Howard would be our saviour and the England goalie would be their demise (though I thought that David James would start in G for them, he's garbage too). I hope we can kick Slovenia and Algeria's ass next. I hope he plays Buddle up front and Jose Torres in place of Ricardo Clark. Slovenia's defense is much better than England's but they don't have much of an offense. I wonder what Fytton, Deaks and KGT think. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 12 20:01:14 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 12 19:10:51 2010. A tie is not anticlimactic when playing the top seeded team in the group. It's a great result for us. There will not be ties once it gets into the knock-out stage but we need to get there first. Today's tie got us a step closer to that. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 12 20:01:15 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 12 19:10:51 2010. A tie is not anticlimactic when playing the top seeded team in the group. It's a great result for us. There will not be ties once it gets into the knock-out stage but we need to get there first. Today's tie got us a step closer to that. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 12 20:11:14 2010, in response to Re: BAFANA BAFANA 1 Mexico 1 Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jun 12 18:27:14 2010. Funny, I share similar thoughts for the Italian team.Are you jealous that unlike Cannavaro, Ribery or Henry didn't get their own song? |
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Posted by BMTLines on Sat Jun 12 21:17:44 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 12 19:13:16 2010. Very anticlimatic and one of the reasons I hate soccer. There should always be a winner! |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 12 21:20:33 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by BMTLines on Sat Jun 12 21:17:44 2010. There is a winner. At the end of the tournament there will be a champion. |
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Posted by DCmetrogreen on Sat Jun 12 21:33:51 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 19:26:09 2010. There are no ties in hockey anymore. If there is no winner after the first overtime, it goes to a shootout. In the NHL and also AHL, there is always a winner. |
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Posted by BMTLines on Sat Jun 12 21:39:44 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 12 21:20:33 2010. Not good enough - every game should have a clear winner |
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Posted by cortelyounext on Sat Jun 12 22:20:55 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by BMTLines on Sat Jun 12 21:39:44 2010. Soccer is a blight on the athletic landscape and makes no sense. It has no redeeming qualities or any intrinsic which means innate value. Soccer has no place in modern society. Someone, never mind who, recently stated the reason the Pilgrims came to America, beyond religious persecution, was to get away from soccer and be able to watch basketball and football even though, to my knowledge, football was not around back then. Anyway, the Basketball Hall of Fame is in Massachussetts for exactly that reason. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 22:48:17 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by BMTLines on Sat Jun 12 21:39:44 2010. Do you even watch sports? |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 22:51:19 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by DCmetrogreen on Sat Jun 12 21:33:51 2010. Show's how much I watch hockey although I figured that I might be out of date. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 12 22:55:25 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by BMTLines on Sat Jun 12 21:39:44 2010. Because that really matters. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 22:56:04 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by cortelyounext on Sat Jun 12 22:20:55 2010. lol. The fact that the US Soccer Hall of Fame opened in 1999 and is closing in 2010 sums up soccer in the USA. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 23:06:59 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 12 22:55:25 2010. It is contradictory to American sports. In fact it may have bothered me slightly at first, but it wasn't a difficult adjustment. I have no problem with ties until they get to the knockout round. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 12 23:32:12 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 22:56:04 2010. The US Soccer HoF shouldn't be in Oneonta, NY. Where the hell is that anyway? They should move it near Red Bull Arena. Newark is the birthplace of US soccer and NJ in general is it's heart.On a similiar note, the International Boxing Hall of Fame is also in some obscure Upstate village. It should be either in Manhattan or in Philly. |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 23:53:53 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 12 23:32:12 2010. That might work. Meola, Ramos, Harkes, ??. Quite a few US players from Newark. |
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Posted by 9 local on Sat Jun 12 23:57:04 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jun 12 16:31:39 2010. I told myself that if the US got a point out of this match, I would buy myself a US Soccer t-shirt and a vuvuzela. Hopefully they're both here by the next match. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sun Jun 13 00:03:03 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 23:53:53 2010. That might work. Meola, Ramos, Harkes, ??.and they overlapped as TEAMMATES in HS in the '80s. Scary. Also in recent times you've had Claudio Reyna, Jozy, Howard and Giuseppe Rossi all came out of NJ. That's just off the top of my head. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sun Jun 13 00:05:43 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by 9 local on Sat Jun 12 23:57:04 2010. I told myself that if the US got a point out of this match, I would buy myself a US Soccer t-shirt and a vuvuzela. Hopefully they're both here by the next match.Which player's shirt did you order? |
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Posted by 9 local on Sun Jun 13 00:19:56 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by SMAZ on Sun Jun 13 00:05:43 2010. it's a generic t-shirt, uncustomized (that would've been on backorder to the end of june) |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jun 13 01:33:19 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by 9 local on Sat Jun 12 23:57:04 2010. I told myself that if the US got a point out of this match, I would buy myself a US Soccer t-shirt and a vuvuzela. Hopefully they're both here by the next match.Cool. Now all you need is a Lucha mask, and you're set. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jun 13 01:33:42 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by SMAZ on Sun Jun 13 00:05:43 2010. They're selling tons of Lucha masks in South Africa. |
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Posted by The I MAN on Sun Jun 13 09:21:01 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 16:36:15 2010. Poor Mr Green! Soccer is like religion in the United Kingdom and the incredibly easy stop that this keeper could not keep out of the net will haunt him for the rest of his life. I've seen 6 year kids who were able to make this save. It appeared that for two seconds he just froze! David James will be back in the net for the UK for the remainder of the cup. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Jun 13 09:29:54 2010, in response to Re: WORLD CUP Thread, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 12 19:26:09 2010. They have tie breakers in hockey. A tie is silly. |
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