Quote :

"Did break-up with Toronto model haunt besieged English goalie? To the British, she’s Elizabeth Minett, the 5-foot-10 lingerie model whose memory haunted the goalie whose slippery fingers devastated the England team in the match against the U.S. To the folks in Guelph and Muskoka, she’s the gorgeous, brainy, globetrotting Lizzie, daughter of dentist Dr. Charles Minett and granddaughter of Manhattan Project scientist Ernest Everet Minett. “She’s not just gorgeous, she’s dramatic gorgeous,” says a woman who has known her since she was born 23 years ago into a prominent Ontario family. Minett, who graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2008 with a degree in economics, is “very bright” as well as beautiful, she told the Star, although asking that her name not be used. Two British tabloid newspapers, the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror, blamed Minett on Monday for goalie Robert Green’s stunning miss on a routine shot that allowed the U.S. to tie in its World Cup match against England on Saturday. She and Green, 30, met two years ago in Toronto when his West Ham team was touring Canada, the Daily Mail said. They’d lived together in a luxe flat overlooking the Thames on the Isle of Dogs in London until about a month ago, when the relationship ended. Green’s agent Andy Evans was quoted by the Daily Mirror Sunday night as insisting the split has not affected the goalie’s focus in South Africa. He said: “Their relationship was over many months ago. This really is not an issue and Rob has gone into the World Cup prepared mentally and as focused as possible.”"

understandable....

6/14/2010 3:58:29 PM

the only thing more annoying than the vuvuzelas is JTMONEYNCSU's whining about them

6/14/2010 3:58:35 PM

DI NATALE TIME

6/14/2010 3:58:56 PM

yawn

[Edited on June 14, 2010 at 3:59 PM. Reason : bzzzzzzzzzz if its gonna annoy you]

6/14/2010 3:59:04 PM

the complaining doesn't bother me


but it affecting your interest in the World Cup is pretty dumb. A casual fan I could understand, but come on

6/14/2010 4:03:39 PM

good hands by the keeper this time


de rossi has more international goals than heskey

[Edited on June 14, 2010 at 4:06 PM. Reason : f]

6/14/2010 4:04:43 PM

big save on a scorcher

6/14/2010 4:09:58 PM

camoranesi shouldve been sent off

6/14/2010 4:10:58 PM

damn he should be off

6/14/2010 4:11:07 PM

that could've easily been a red

6/14/2010 4:11:22 PM

Cahill should be pissed after seeing that

6/14/2010 4:12:03 PM

Dammit another draw.

6/14/2010 4:16:20 PM

you know what i hate more than italian flopping?


when an italian player hits the deck, and then grabs the ball with his hands in anticipation of a whistle in his favor. i would love to see a no-call on the foul, and then see the player get a yellow for the hand ball.

6/14/2010 4:17:19 PM

haha i was reffing the other day, and i called a handball on someone for doing that

6/14/2010 4:18:16 PM

^good. i hate that.

6/14/2010 4:19:41 PM

someone should embed the vuvuzela sound in this thread

6/14/2010 4:21:08 PM

^
no thank you

6/14/2010 4:24:51 PM

Quote :

"when an italian player hits the deck, and then grabs the ball with his hands in anticipation of a whistle in his favor. i would love to see a no-call on the foul, and then see the player get a yellow for the hand ball."

2nd

6/14/2010 4:27:59 PM

http://twitpic.com/1wtl30

6/14/2010 4:28:31 PM

^^ only italians do this

6/14/2010 4:39:09 PM

only

6/14/2010 4:42:17 PM

6/14/2010 4:45:04 PM

Listening to PTI guys discuss soccer makes me want to kill myself

6/14/2010 5:08:47 PM

^ Woody Paige: "England's strength is their defense."

6/14/2010 5:13:13 PM

ATH guys aren't too great either

6/14/2010 5:16:18 PM

I meant ATH durp

I WAS SO MAD

[Edited on June 14, 2010 at 5:19 PM. Reason : Woody Paige make me want to kill Woody Paige]

6/14/2010 5:18:56 PM

i had to post it like that in case you came back with "YEA I MEANT PTI THO" lol

6/14/2010 5:19:35 PM

PTI comes on before ATH in your world Ernie?


Damn wish that was the case here. I hate having to sit through the idiots on ATH waiting for PTI to start.

6/14/2010 5:19:36 PM

Actually my local ESPN affiliate airs Jeopardy between PTI and ATH

6/14/2010 5:20:27 PM

listening to american talking heads discuss soccer is always painful.


but on the bright side, at least they're talking about it. 15 years ago, it might be a box score on the bottom line, and that's about it...sooooo....baby steps...i guess.

6/14/2010 5:22:27 PM

i always laugh a little on the inside when i am on I-40 and see the sign for PTI Airport

6/14/2010 5:23:12 PM

At least I can understand what these guys are saying

Listening to John Saunders and his Mexican roundtable on ESPN is painful too

Quote :

"but on the bright side, at least they're talking about it. 15 years ago, it might be a box score on the bottom line, and that's about it...sooooo....baby steps...i guess."

This is true

But on the noon Sportcenter before the Italy match, they replayed a five minute recap segment that aired ten minutes before, then spent the rest of the show talking about Vince Young, Texas and the Jets

[Edited on June 14, 2010 at 5:26 PM. Reason : ]

6/14/2010 5:24:41 PM

Quote :

""when an italian player hits the deck, and then grabs the ball with his hands in anticipation of a whistle in his favor. i would love to see a no-call on the foul, and then see the player get a yellow for the hand ball.""

It was called earlier this WC, i forget the game. I want to say argentina-nigeria, because argies do it too.

[Edited on June 14, 2010 at 5:29 PM. Reason : .]

6/14/2010 5:29:01 PM

[Edited on June 14, 2010 at 5:33 PM. Reason : sorry for double post ]

6/14/2010 5:33:05 PM

BAn the Vuvuzelas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_DinB7nSF4


Fifa says no
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/sports/soccer/15horns.html?hp

[Edited on June 14, 2010 at 5:52 PM. Reason : .]

6/14/2010 5:51:55 PM

De Rossi is a disgrace

Get up and play, faggot

[Edited on June 14, 2010 at 5:58 PM. Reason : and yes I'm ]

6/14/2010 5:57:36 PM

6/14/2010 6:02:45 PM

Are there any evening replays?

I didn't get to see any of the Netherlands match.

6/14/2010 6:04:47 PM

naw, with 6+ hours of new coverage each day, they aren't doing that.

6/14/2010 6:09:57 PM

6/14/2010 6:11:57 PM

you can watch them on espn3 whenever you want

6/14/2010 6:12:55 PM

^^^^

http://sports.espn.go.com/espntv/espnGuide

(ESPN Classic will be showing a majority of the replays)

6/14/2010 6:15:19 PM

They're showing condensed matches on ESPN2, 2

6/14/2010 6:20:34 PM

i dont much mind the vuvuzelas, but i gotta agree with comments from youtube for once. serbia owns on chanting.

6/14/2010 6:36:54 PM

ESPN MLB commentators are lamenting what happened to the British team's goalkeeper

6/14/2010 8:35:04 PM

lol @ the horns being called a "World Cup Controversy" by CNN.

6/14/2010 8:44:57 PM

Quote :

"Are there any evening replays?"

try univision or telefutura. they just replayed the italian match.

[Edited on June 14, 2010 at 9:25 PM. Reason : ]

6/14/2010 9:23:18 PM

ESPN Classic has replayed some of the games.

6/14/2010 9:34:59 PM

My bad. I am wrong. Sorry. I was only thinking ESPN/ABC.

6/14/2010 9:46:01 PM

my boss is pretty lewtz. moved our team meeting so i could take off to watch the US game on friday and still go.

6/15/2010 12:05:23 AM