***Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Thread***

[PJN]

Question: Do you think Cahill's suspension will help Ghana? Not that Ghana is playing bad.

 

[bigvince06]

I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Hate Australia and Tim Cahill

haha Australians are the quintessential CACs...literally take over land and kill off the rightful inhabitants...then complain that the rightful inhabitants have the audacity to complain/fight back/simply exist...

I have a hard time not wishing injuries/death on any of the following teams:

Spain
Italy
Australia

 

[Sampson]

Question: Do you think Cahill's suspension will help Ghana? Not that Ghana is playing not playing good.

Yep. He plays for Everton, a very good English Premier League team. His suspension will come as huge loss for their midfield.

 

[bigvince06]

Yep. He plays for Everton, a very good English Premier League team. His suspension will come as huge loss for their midfield.

cosign...the only other "star" they have is Kewell who is injured and past his prime.

 

[doggish_098]

The soundtrack to the World Cup has been a steady buzz, but the noise could soon be coming to an end.

South Africa's World Cup organizing chief Danny Jordaan said Sunday there is a chance vuvuzelas may be banned from inside stadiums after numerous complaints, BBC News has reported.

“

Evra We can't sleep at night because of the vuvuzelas. People start playing them from 6 a.m. We can't hear one another out on the pitch because of them.
” -- France captain Patrice Evra

Asked whether he'd consider getting rid of the trumpets, he said: "If there are grounds to do so, yes. We did say that if any land on the pitch in anger we will take action."

France captain Patrice Evra has already blamed the noise generated by the vuvuzelas for his team's poor showing in its opening 0-0 draw with Uruguay.

"We can't sleep at night because of the vuvuzelas," Evra said. "People start playing them from 6 a.m. We can't hear one another out on the pitch because of them."

Jordaan said organizers are doing everything possible.

"We've tried to get some order," Jordaan said. "We have asked for no vuvuzelas during national anthems or stadium announcements. It's difficult, but we're trying to manage the best we can."

"I would prefer singing," he said.

The first-round contests introduced most of the world to the vuvuzela, a plastic trumpet carried into the matches and blown on incessantly by thousands of fans. On television, it sounds as if the game is being played before a nest of angry bees.

It's louder at the games than it is on the telecast. ESPN is altering the sound mix on its broadcasts to minimize the crowd noise, network spokesman Bill Hofheimer said. The network has accepted it as part of the atmosphere and has made no complaints about the vuvuzelas, he said.

The sound is driving others crazy, though.

"The constant drone of cheap and tuneless plastic horns is killing the atmosphere of the World Cup," wrote John Leicester, an international sports columnist for The Associated Press. He wrote that it is drowning out the oohs, aahs and cheers that lend excitement to the matches.

Plainly, many of the fans take pride in the tradition.

A website informing visitors about South Africa, www.safrica.info, describes the vuvuzelas as "a beautiful noise for the beautiful game."

Despite the noise the World Cup is causing quite a buzz on U.S. television.

Preliminary estimates indicate the quadrennial soccer tournament is off to a fast start with viewers, even with the odd, horn-blowing soundtrack that ESPN has sought to minimize on its broadcasts.

Saturday's first-round tie by the U.S. and English teams was seen by an estimated 13 million on ESPN, the Nielsen Co. said on Sunday. It was the nation's most-watched soccer telecast since the 2006 World Cup final between Italy and France, and the most-watched involving the U.S. men's national team since 1994.

San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas were the cities most interested in the game, according to the Nielsen figures.

A viewership estimate for the U.S.-England game on the Spanish-speaking Univision network was not immediately available.

An estimated 5.4 million people in the U.S. watched the tournament's first game Friday between Mexico and the South African home team on Univision, Nielsen said. ESPN's telecast of that game had 2.9 million viewers.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-...s-consider-silencing-vuvuzelas?cc=5901&ver=us

 

[PJN]

Yep. He plays for Everton, a very good English Premier League team. His suspension will come as huge loss for their midfield.

Thanks, I screwed up that question big time!!

 

[fwillia]

What's this I hear about Alex Song not starting today?!?!

 

[heavyhand]

And I take your sexy ghanian and raise her with tha South African beauty in my sig.

I'll see you and add my girl rossette

 

[Black Limey]

I'll see you and add my girl rossette

 

[Black Limey]

Who's dive was worse last night? Germany won............but the theatrics were pathetic.

 

[heavyhand]

man that caucau shit was gay as fuck

 

[Black Limey]

 

[heavyhand]

fuck kuyt but VdV is that nigga

 

[Sampson]

My boy Van Persie is going to rip them apart. Up the Gunners!

 

[Black Limey]

My boy Van Persie is going to rip them apart. Up the Gunners!

 

[Black Limey]

 

[Chiyo]

 

[heavyhand]

denmark is boring as fuck

 

[DJCandle]

 

[Killacut]

Yeah I saw that too.

Guys it made sense for the guy to behave like that. HE IS SERBIAN. In essence, he helped Ghana beat his own national team

 

[Black Limey]

denmark is boring as fuck

Holland will eventually break them down. Hopefully Robben will get some minutes

Holland are trying to walk the ball into the net

Look at the Dempsey goal and the Slovenian goal. A shot is always worth a try with any ball..........especially this one

 

[keone]

Holland will eventually break them down. Hopefully Robben will get some minutes

Holland are trying to walk the ball into the net

Look at the Dempsey goal and the Slovenian goal. A shot is always worth a try with any ball..........especially this one

robben wont play marwijk is not risking it. he should put elijah in tho he can make a difference
damn i had it right

 

[TIMEISMONEY]

Holland will eventually break them down. Hopefully Robben will get some minutes

Holland are trying to walk the ball into the net

Look at the Dempsey goal and the Slovenian goal. A shot is always worth a try with any ball..........especially this one

My motto is that it's always easier to score right on the outside of the box than inside the box.

 

[keone]

 

[keone]

oh well we will take it

 

[DJCandle]

Why would you attempt a clearance like that?

 

[heavyhand]

why is this nigga smiling

 

[Black Limey]

Guys it made sense for the guy to behave like that. HE IS SERBIAN. In essence, he helped Ghana beat his own national team

 

[Black Limey]

why is this nigga smiling

 

[Black Limey]

My motto is that it's always easier to score right on the outside of the box than inside the box.

I am upping a show that deals with just that

 

[TIMEISMONEY]

I am upping a show that deals with just that

cool

 

[TIMEISMONEY]

i knew this game was going to be boring with denmark being in it

 

[charlie dark]

What it means to score in the World Cup

http://www.zshare.net/video/77190807e7195991/

This is what it means for Ghanaians wathcing it on the tv...I had to empathise and those who know will do too:

 

[DJCandle]

This is what it means for Ghanaians wathcing it on the tv...I had to empathise and those who know will do too:

This is football.

 

[militantmidget]

Let's go Cameroon!!!! Beat the samurai!