Or perhaps HIAG has been fixing the entire tournament to ensure his triumph in SD's prediction league
Argentina are certainly a team less than the sum of their parts. Picked the 8 group winners to progress. Still one to go, but wish I'd put my money where my mouth is
Dignitas don't do football, but if they did they'd be the Swiss team. Lawrenson managed to out-**** himself on commentary at the end, first with his ****ty comments when the Argentines were protesting about the free kick being awarded, and then his pathetic attempts to backtrack when the replays clearly showed Shaquiri dives so they were right to protest the decision.
Somebody had a partly accurate bit about what Americans don't understand about football. Extra time, check. Nobody knows exactly when it will end, really? Really? Players writhing around from having their hair touched. Check, and you have no idea how loathsome we find this. Diving? No check. American sports may have invented diving and play acting of all kinds to draw fouls. Our so-called national pastime has a regular and accepted facet called "stealing." NFL punters and NBA players have flopped for decades. We don't mind cheating. We just can't stand or even understand players pretending to be hurt. In US sports they all pretend not to be hurt. Belgium is a country 1/25th the size of the US (in population), and no one from the US team would get into the Belgium squad. But Belgium's weaknesses are slow fullbacks and a seeming lack of team unity and coherence. Both are good ones for the US, whose strengths are team unity and speed on the counter. The US has really overachieved from qualification on. They are a very mediocre group in terms of talent. They'll have to overachieve even more today. Cameron, what a t**t! The US football player isn't so great either. Vertonghen leads a break which would have scored save for a crap finish. Zuzi, who gave him the ball, heaves a sigh of relief. If there was a place for a defender who both doesn't have to defend and is slow, Jan would have it sewn up. His ability to read passes and lead counters is as good as any defender's. And Vertonghen very nearly scores. Who on earth is supposed to be on the right for the US? "He loves to spring forward from left back, Vertonghen..." ..when he's not bitching and moaning about playing left back, which is usually... Oofah: four passes, only one, by Dempsey, remotely competent. So far Dempsey, Beasley, Howard and Bradley look like they belong in the world cup--or at a NCAA game, at least. Nobody else can pass to an open player. Bedoya is furious at the ref because he committed an idiotic foul. We've got Cameron and Yeltsin (Yetlin) on now. We should bring in Papa Doc Duvalier at the break. Chris Rock would star in "The Demarcus Beasley Story" if there is one. (Don't hold your breath.) I thought I was looking at a bald Chris Rock for a moment there.
RWAEB, the US playing soccerball is like the Belgians doing taekwondo - yes, there's a few and it's a decent pastime to get involved in for exercise.....but it's not serious, it's not life or death, in fact, it's not even a career, is it? What with (proper) football, baseball, basketball, ice hockey, WWE, even tennis, cycling, sudoku, cheerleading, hardcore porn....there's lots of things you'd do before kicking a round ball about and falling over a lot, isn't there? All things considered, you're doing damn well and I can't see any reason why you can't beat the Belgians.
nah mate...I've read that some miserable bastard on this board thinks his an over rated self important cock
I don't recognize him. 18 shots, 12 on target for Belgium. 3 and 2 for the good ol'. We're defending well, tbf. Which is good because we've been defending the entire game. I think we gotta call a timeout here, and get our offense on the field... "There are Mexican heavyweights just like there Japanese middleweights. But they aren't very good." It's true we don't know what life and death is because we have so many sports. I have to say that this time we're much closer to being on the same page as the rest of the world than ever before. Time will tell if this is another false dawn, but there's never been this much interest. Middle aged women talking about the world cup... "Tim Howard stood on his head!" (Ice hockey-ese for a great performance by a keeper). "Tim Howard is playing Belgium by himself." Yeltsin's been the second best US player since he came on. Surely it's just a matter of time now...Belgium is getting great chances every minute.
We actually put two passes together. Then Jones got it. My god. Now Bradley can't hit an open player. The US praying to get to extra time. "Playing" would imply a bit more soccerball skill than we've got. Wondolowski misses a wide open goal though he was very, very wrongly called offsides. Well, that should be good night, Irene. Cameron's a joke. Also, the US player can't cross to save his life.
so when you wobbling and in danger of throwing away a quarter final place in the world cup what you gonna do? take of Hazard and bring the world beater that is Chadli
