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There's no place for that uncalled out burst of singing. RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

SILENCE MEXICANS! 

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I'd be happy to see Mexico do well.  They play attractive football and if they ever won one the celebration over here would be immense.  Not to mention my enthusiastic support for the Univision girls.  Si se puede tbh.

They way these American commentators have been going on and on about Rob Green, they are just tempting fate.  Tim Howard is blatantly having a clanger against Slovenia. 

 

That's a dirty trick you're trying there. That's low, man. Real low.

The football gods always respond to that sort of black magic. 

They way these American commentators have been going on and on about Rob Green, they are just tempting fate.  Tim Howard is blatantly having a clanger against Slovenia. 

BBC saying the team tomorrow, according to "their sources", will be:

 

Heskey - Rooney

Gerrard - Barry - Lampard - Lennon

Cole - Terry - Carragher - Johnson

James

 

I just don't get Capello. Rooney has had his best ever season playing as a lone striker the majority of the time. Was scoring all sorts of goals. Right foot, left foot, headers, everything. Put him up top alone and ensure he stays as far up the pitch as possible and let Gerrard and Lampard do the linking up behind him, with Barry holding. Lennon right and Joe Cole left. Honestly, what is the problem?

Because Gerrard/Lampard/Barry will inexplicably be unable to maintain possession against inferior opponents, and in their frustration will start lumping it up to Rooney who will be left isolated, ineffective and marked out of the game.  And we won't understand why, since they all play successfully with lone strikers at club level. 

It doesn't make any sense, but it's probably better to acknowledge the reality of the situation and play Heskey. 

Personally I think unrealistic and deluded speculation is a lot less irritating than the idiots who spend their summer pretending they have ITK information about more plausible transfer targets.

I'd prefer Upson, but that should be more than capable of murdering Algeria.  Use Defoe off the bench in the second half.

Hearing Martin Tyler and Ally McCoist say Tshabalala has been the highlight of this match so far.

I think the US and England will go through, but the difference between 1st and 2nd is the difference between a successful tournament and a Germany/Argentina shit storm of a draw. 

Well fuck, let's just hand Spain the trophy now, put on our Barca replica shirts and watch Villa do keepy-uppys instead.  Then we can all have a nice .  Very inconvenient of those Swiss to successfully exploit their weaknesses.

Victory for Sam Allardyce and Otto Rehhagel today. Euro 2004 all over again.

Was it fuck.

"If you're not gonna win the head ball, you gotta run with your runners."  A little post-match analysis from Alexi Lalas on US ESPN.

Did McCarthy say Switzerland have been disappointing? What the f*** did he expect? A free-flowing attacking game by the Swiss?

Utter bullshit.  They have done exactly what you need to do against a team with more skillful players.  This is not a fluke. 

Not hearing many 'oles' to celebrate all that sexy passing.   

Wish we'd signed Derdiyok back before Euro 2008 when we were supposed to. 

If nothing else, Switzerland have given the other contenders a blueprint. 

FUCK ME DERDIYOK FUUUUUUUUCK

This world cup is suiting the lesser teams tbh. Just put all your men behind the ball and go for the counter.

 

The combination of dodgy pitches, a dodgy ball & vuvuzelas breaking up any form of communication is making any real creativity very hard for even the best sides in the world.

 

Can imagine Chris Hughton right now, feet up on the table watching games like this, thinking "yeah...this is how NUFC will avoid relegation next season. Parking the team bus in front of goal. Clearly it's hard to score against."

Well we probably aren't going to finish 17th playing sexy one touch football.

Fucking cheat.

Did anyone else see that Swiss supporter doing something extremely strange during the Spanish throw in a moment ago?

Hitzfeld, what a bad ass.

First outstanding game coming up.

Hope so.  One of these teams knows it isn't going to qualify based on this result, so they can't afford to piss around like other teams can. 

As my link didn't work earlier.

 

The best national anthem belted out by my avatar and his mates.

 

 

  Chile might be my second team in this tournament simply because of that national anthem.  By far the best.

That is what wins World Cups.  Right there.  The ability to not lose, no matter how awful the performance. 

It's a shame this group is so shit, because if there was anyone else half decent then Italy could be in trouble.  Unfortunately, they will coast through.

I love national anthems with a 2 minute instrumental before the singing.