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I've actually been kind of amazed by that. I know, different situation and all, but if an ethnically Korean player ever played for Japan he'd be crucified in public opinion over here. Why would the said player care though, if he really saw himself as more Japanese than Korean then surely he'd just laugh at you? Fair enough I guess. I'd still hate his guts and hope our lads break his legs at the first opportunity though

I've actually been kind of amazed by that. I know, different situation and all, but if an ethnically Korean player ever played for Japan he'd be crucified in public opinion over here.

No need to apologise, World Cup talk is good. I don't know much about your team tbh but from the outset you could see a hammering was on the cards. It seems Verbeek is the opposite in managerial ability and tactical attitude to Guus Hiddink. Yeah, while it was obvious before the match that this looked like it would be a hammering, it also seems fairly clear that with a better manager even this version of Australia could be doing better. Verbeek isn't a bad manager per se... He's just overly cautious to a fault. Was terrible at putting away the weaker teams during his time with us because he never, ever takes risks going forward. Even if we're playing against Hong Kong or Vietnam.

Change of topic... Miroslav Klose is now just four goals away from becoming the World Cup's all time top scorer. Just imagine, a decade in the future somebody is going to be answering a trivia question: "The World Cup's all-time top scorer... Ronaldo and.... Miroslav Klose? "

Debate? It's just Parky being racist and throwing random insults around rather than trying to back up his viewpoint. Fail to see the racism tbh Might be the wrong word. Whatever it's called when you don't want anyone born anywhere else than your country representing your country, in whatever way. As long as they qualify through heritage it shouldn't matter where you are born.Cacau clearly has no Deutsch claret in him. As I've said, I'm against changing your nationality by the (in most countries) five year rule. I'm just not against people that have lived in a country for their entire life not being able to represent the country they want to, love, and identify themselves with because they weren't born there. Cacau and Tulio are the 2 worst offences imo. I thought you didn't mind parentage, I think Tulio is Japanese diaspora. He has a Japanese father, yeah. Japanese grandparent, no? Doesn't matter anyway, he's a cunt so he deserves all the stick he gets Anyway... You simply can't restrict a player's free choice because every individual case is different. For every Tulio or Cacau there are a lot of players who have legitimate choices to make between the country they were born in and the one they identify with. I was born in America and have American citizenship but if I was actually any good at football I would never willingly choose to play for the US national team. (no offense deuce! )

I've just discovered that leaving the window open for an hour has let literally a hundred mosquitos into my room. I fucking hate Korean summers. And I'm dangerously close to choosing the button option.

fuck, I'm feeling conflicted. Go to sleep now or watch the match and go to work on one hour of sleep and probably hit the button that starts world war 3. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/files/2010/03/Do-not-press.jpg

That Australia lineup makes me feel very good about not staying up to watch this.

http://clien.career.co.kr/cs2/data/file/lecture/1276357441_POqVBDb5_ED999CEC84B1ED9994_EC9C88EB8F84EC9AB0_1.png Apparently if you cut out the 1k and 3k frequencies with your audio mixer you can drown out the Vuvuzela sound. Give a South Korean a computer and some excess time and he can figure out how to do anything

two awesome handballs today.

LOL, pelanty!

yay, more red cards.

What a w*****. A goal scoring w*****. OMFG just saw this for the first time. This is the funniest thing I've seen in ages. Dempsey's awkward expression

I don't understand this, the pace of the game is so fast yet there's no incision at all.

Thought the US v England match occasionally had some good football. South Korea too. Change your f***ing avatar, man.

This match looked exciting, but well.. Still no goals. This goddamn WC is allergic to goals

:lol: Lived up to the hype.

Watching these two matches side-by-side, how lucky are England to have Slovenia and Algeria instead of these two?

This match is so much better already than the other one it's not even funny.

Great move from Serbia to start things off.

Part of the fun of the WC for me is listening to all the different national anthems. They have the lyrics scrolling across the screen for the broadcasts here and some of them are hillarious.

Very much looking forward to this. Serbia look excellent. Just wish Ghana had Essien, one of my favorite players.

I just wish this last one had been the 3:30am match for me instead of Germany v. Australia, which I'd love to watch. Two sweet ones tomorrow though: Denmark v. Netherlands, and Japan v. Cameroon. Eto'o v. Tulio

After Brazil v. North Korea, I'm pretty sure the average goal # for all matches in the tournament will be somewhere around 3.

Slovenia's first point, and first win in the WC ever. I remember what that feels like