worst half time coverage ever

"Ronaldo is fat... WITH A PH!!!"

6/22/2006 3:52:53 PM

Do all Brasil's players have bad teeth, or just the good ones?

6/22/2006 3:54:22 PM

Quote :

"ok, but you'd acknowledge it was shitty officiating, right?"

I'll watch it on the ESPN Classic replay at 5. I only saw a replay on a 6-inch x 6-inch in the lower lefthand corner of my computer screen at work, so I need more resolution. It looked to me like the Ghanaian headed the ball and Onyewu was late going up for the ball. So the Ghanaian was coming down and Onyewu was kinda going up, and Onyewu's a big guy.

I think it's just a judgment call on the ref's part. In my eyes that's just a part of the game, like Lebron or Wade getting massive foul calls on players defending them as "respect" in basketball. If you're in the box, that chance is there cause you know there are always going to be fouls that are borderline. The chances of that are maybe 5% at best, but if you're in the box 10 times during a game, 5% would equates to 1 penalty every other game. If you're a defender, if you don't want to give up a penalty, you can't give the ref the chance to call one.

Part of the USA's problem this World Cup was they were never in the box to benefit from a defender making a bonehead play, and as I look back on qualifying, although they won most of their games, that was pretty much how we played then too.

6/22/2006 3:58:18 PM

Okay I understand all your reasoning, just take a look at the replay and then we'll talk about it.

6/22/2006 3:59:49 PM

that was almost a sick goal

6/22/2006 4:08:08 PM

wtf how did the goalie miss that?

6/22/2006 4:11:38 PM

f0ckin hell.

2-1 brasil leads

6/22/2006 4:11:55 PM

everyone should now root for Italy.

6/22/2006 4:17:56 PM

fuck italy

cheaters never win

6/22/2006 4:20:08 PM

hmm, how are they cheaters?

6/22/2006 4:20:29 PM

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=italy+serie+a+scandal&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

6/22/2006 4:21:30 PM

I would die laughing if Milan and Juventus get relegated. Couldn't have happened to nicer people.

6/22/2006 4:22:48 PM

I didn't realize they were fixing games, I just thought you were betting on them, but I'm still going to root for them, Italy and Spain I guess, and maybe the netherlands

6/22/2006 4:23:23 PM

AC Milan, Juventus, Fiorentina and Lazio

and not just relegation to Serie B, they're talking Serie C or D

6/22/2006 4:26:48 PM

oh really? they're gonna bump them down? wow, for how long?

6/22/2006 4:28:51 PM

oh snap. ronaldo with 14 goals.

2 this game

6/22/2006 4:38:36 PM

CR ATIA

6/22/2006 4:39:27 PM

motherfucked

6/22/2006 4:55:49 PM

bwahaha, even fucking AUSTRALIA has made it out of their group

6/22/2006 5:00:19 PM

anybody think Dempsey caught the attention of any European clubs in the World Cup? I could see him playing League Championship in England or something comparable... anything to get him out of MLS

6/22/2006 5:00:37 PM

^^ Uh, I don't know who you've been talkin to, but the Aussies are fucking GOOD.

6/22/2006 5:07:10 PM

^ ya, Ausie coach is off the chain

6/22/2006 5:07:38 PM

nonetheless i want to punch Croatia in their collective face for making me root for them...

plus that Croatian broad they kept showing at the end could so get it

6/22/2006 5:09:29 PM

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"Uh, I don't know who you've been talkin to, but the Aussies are fucking GOOD."

I don't really follow soccer that much

6/22/2006 5:37:09 PM

http://england2006.ytmnd.com/

6/22/2006 9:45:23 PM

"After Dempsey's contract runs out, it is possible he will move to a European league. He has trained with Dutch team Feyenoord Rotterdam and English team Everton F.C. in the past two years."

6/22/2006 10:31:15 PM

Feyenoord would be better. He'd just sit on the bench at Everton.

6/22/2006 11:21:08 PM

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"Uh, I don't know who you've been talkin to, but the Aussies are fucking GOOD."

I dont know what games you been looking at but the Aussies are average.

i was rooting for them but they showed me no more than an average team, they got out of the group but unfortunately i doubt they'll win any games

6/22/2006 11:44:29 PM

If you're a soccer fan and want to hear a cold-blooded analysis of U.S. play (rather than people at ESPN that came out criticizing 2 hours after they were praising) that talks about the game and U.S. soccer's viewpoint on the game and how it contributed to the result, here's a good show (warning: highly opinionated).

http://www.worldsoccerdaily/WSD062206.mp3

[Edited on June 23, 2006 at 12:43 AM. Reason : .]

6/23/2006 12:40:22 AM

I can't believe I picked Cech instead of Buffon.

At least I saved myself by making Robinho captain.

6/23/2006 1:04:16 AM

The Italian player that elbowed Brian McBride in the USA-Italy game has been banned from the rest of the World Cup.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2006/teams/italy/5109684.stm

6/23/2006 9:01:53 AM

I've been having to work, and haven't been able to see any of the games...so can someone tell me how shitty the US played? Was it not that shitty, or just really really shitty?

The US team is horrible, men's soccer in America is shit compared to the rest of the world...take any club team from anywhere else and put them against the US team, and maybe that will be a fair match

6/23/2006 9:25:42 AM

Quote :

"The US team is horrible, men's soccer in America is shit compared to the rest of the world...take any club team from anywhere else and put them against the US team, and maybe that will be a fair match"

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6/23/2006 9:30:06 AM

Hahaha I was playing some FIFA game the other day with my roommate and I beat him 3-1 as Tottenham Hotspur vs. Brazil

6/23/2006 10:44:12 AM

I have a question about something that happened yesterday. I know that if you get 2 yellow cards in the group play, you're suspended the next game. Emerton for Australia, for example, got his 2nd yellow of the group play, so he will be out for the next game. Later in the game, he got his 2nd yellow of the day, which of course leads to a red card. My question is, does he still only have a 1 game suspension, or does he miss the game after as well?

6/23/2006 2:26:41 PM

PM me if you want a link for online viewing...

6/23/2006 3:00:34 PM

France isn't looking too great

6/23/2006 3:36:15 PM

Togo goalkeeper is ON FIRE.

6/23/2006 3:40:00 PM

WTG Claudio Reyna retiring from international soccer!!

the fallout continues and the future of USA soccer is grim at best.

6/23/2006 4:23:53 PM

^ We'll be fine, it's not like the Colts left Baltimore or anything.

6/23/2006 8:39:56 PM

Should be two fairly intriguing games tomorrow, looking forward to some real good matches at least now that the US is gone. Two latin america teams and two european teams going at it. good shit.

6/23/2006 8:45:06 PM

Seriously, all the old timers should just get out.

McBride, Pope, Reyna. They are remnants of the bad old days, yet they're still good enough to start? Just goes to show American talent development over the last eight plus years.

6/23/2006 9:05:45 PM

that just shows arena's confidence in younger players... i mean he had agoos on the national team up into his mid 30s...come on, agoos....

6/23/2006 9:51:58 PM

motherfucker scored an own goal

arena is gone though. on to better days...i hope

6/23/2006 10:14:19 PM

Anybody hear the clip of Wynalda on Mike and Mike where he ripped Arena? It was pretty brutal, but all true

didn't know Arena was a lacrosse player who just decided to play soccer

6/23/2006 10:15:22 PM

From the look of him, you'd have a hard time guessing he did anything athletic at all.

6/23/2006 10:27:06 PM

Quote :

"I dont know what games you been looking at but the Aussies are average. i was rooting for them but they showed me no more than an average team, they got out of the group but unfortunately i doubt they'll win any games"

Uh, any team that can score 3 goals in 7 minutes is good.

They're scrappy, and they had a legit shot against Brazil (who admittedly wasn't trying)

6/23/2006 10:59:36 PM

Team's Ranks after Group play:

1) Spain
2) Germany
3) Brazil
4) Portugal
5) Argentina
6) Italy
7) Switzerland
8) England
9) Netherlands
10) Ecuador
11) Ukraine
12) Ghana
13) France
14) Sweden
15) Mexico
16) Australia
17) Korea Republic
18) Paraguay
19) Czech Republic
20) Côte d'Ivoire
21) Poland
22) Croatia
23) Angola
24) Tunisa
25) United States
26) Iran
27) Trinidad and Tobago
28) Japan
29) Saudi Arabia
30) Togo
31) Costa Rica
32) Serbia and Montenegro

[Edited on June 23, 2006 at 11:21 PM. Reason : ]

6/23/2006 11:14:40 PM

^ We actually tied Iran. (Same record, same goals scored, same goals against)

6/23/2006 11:30:51 PM

we had tougher competition, so I used that as a tie breaker

6/23/2006 11:38:56 PM