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What a draw. Half the kiwis play in the US, and many not even in MLS, but in lower leagues or for college teams. Absolutely stunning.

"To be honest, it's embarassing. Quite pathetic. Absolutely pathetic with the unnecessary theatrics."

They just need Robben back. Figure he should be back by the next round, they'll be fine.

So I assume that with England in Roo-ins, Rooney will be in a trailer park mowing the grass with a massive beard next week, and not beating Roger Federer at table tennis.

From the US point of view, through with a win against Algeria or a draw if England draw or lose to Slovenia. Not a terrible shape to be in, all things considered.

ridiculous dive by the Greek, but the red card was deserved, whether or not he made contact with that stupid kick.

Too bad Korea lost by so many goals, would have been fun if Nigeria and Korea had gone into that last match level on points and GD. Korea can definitely attack, should be fun.

I fear its the latter. It's the New York Post. That would be like trying to hold The Sun accountable for...well...anything. Ever.

I would agree with that, except that the year that's free is in 2012-2013, not next year. Seems like more of a gesture than anything-if he's worth keeping when that year comes around, I'm sure they will just sign a new contract with him and pay him, otherwise easily sold. It's a nice thought and gesture to the club, but probably nothing more than that.

Actually being able to watch some matches on TV/online here in the US. Was an all too rare occasion this year, and it's tough to maintain the same level of passion following along only on a message board.

This should help a bit: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=763859&sec=england&cc=5901

Reason #12862 why I love espn360: I was so disappointed at not being able to watch the match while at work here in the US. I just got home, realized it was on espn360, so I can watch a replay of the entire match...for free. Excited to start watching now, especially knowing what's to come in the 2nd half.

lampard again 7-1

Plays football like him too. Definitely not all night long

The argument that streaming football matches will reduce attendances holds no water to me. Someone references the NFL, and obviously every game still sells out years in advance there. It's not the best example, with only 8 home games a year. Baseball, I think, proves the point better. 162 games a year, literally play every day during the season. You can get every game in the country streamed online for the last few years, and yet, attendances have hit record highs each of the same seasons. People who want to go to matches for the experience will still go as long as they can afford it, no matter what. If you live in Newcastle, and had the ability to watch matches online, wouldn't you still go to every game you could?

That's how most injuries seem to happen. It confuses me so much, the lack of reporting on injured players. It really is amazing to me. Especially coming from the American point of view, where every single injury is listed and dissected to death. Hell, every team releases injury reports well in advance, there's constant communication regarding it with fans and the leagues. Here, it always seems to be a total surprise when a player is injured or returns. If it wasn't for physioroom in the EPL at least, we'd hardly ever know how when players were due to return or if a player was even actually injured. Real shortcoming from the fans point of view at least.

Yea Fulham really miss Zamora and Dempsey. Goals will dry up. I think I heard them say Zamora is playing Well then, they really miss Dempsey

Yea Fulham really miss Zamora and Dempsey. Goals will dry up.

Have to say, for as well as he has played lately, Ramsey has had an absolutely disastrous first half. I can't remember a single touch of his going well.

Assist by Donovan on a decent corner kick for the header. Good start for him.

Any word on Landycakes today? I'm very curious to see how he does on this loan spell.