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Not at all, great match so far.

:thup: ahem, can you quantify that in any way? :thup:

Who cares if they "make an effort" for our change and third kit? 75% of the time we'll be wearing our home kit anyway.

Needs to look a lot like this if it's meant to work at all with Gerrard and Lampard on the pitch together: DM RM LM Lampard Gerrard Rooney If not that then the only manager to succeed will be the first one to drop either Lampard or Gerrard and I'd personally sit Gerrard. Being able to bring Gerrard on for Lampard in the 60th minute would be a powerful powerful sub.

http://i.imgur.com/lKxA3.gif

The standard of commentating over here has been surprisingly very good this WC. Tyler, Rae, Healey, Darke, Mustoe, Ekoku, Harkes, McCoist. Quality stuff. Even the pundits have been good; Steven McManaman, Ruud Gullit, Roberto Martinez and Jurgen have stood out especially.

All of the Puma kits have that this season. It was inspired by boxing if I remember what I read correctly.

harsh. his legs had clearly gone. really enjoyed this game, clash of styles, swiss gave their all but just couldnt last out with the 10 men. chile, for all their style, look rather lightweight. Feel exactly the opposite actually. They are scrappy and throw themselves into a lot of 50/50 chances and come out with the ball more times than not. Really enjoy their passion (Uruguay is the same way, throwing themselves in front of the ball very often). Really hope they get far in this tournament because they are playing the game the way I love most to see it - attacking. They just need a proven goalscorer and they will be massively sorted out.

Vamos Chile.

Yeah, one of their subs today had to get time off from the bank he works at. That's so awesome, especially in today's game where there are dudes making a week what it takes "common" people years to make.

Heard on the BBC World Service today that four of the NZ players in the squad don't even play professionally.

Ian Darke is being a bit cheeky in his commentary here in the States "Do you really think it hurt that bad?" "Oh look, De Rossi is totally fine now..." Subtly having a go at the Italian players for diving/cheating.

Just like when they cheated their way against Australia in the last WC.

Italy getting a penalty? NEVER.

a part of me is enjoying it but a larger part is very angry at the fact they don't seem to give 2 shits about being there erm isn't that like the majority of us. don't give too much of a shit about it (i stopped filling in my wall chart early on day 2) and am only really bothered about my club NUFC. Yeah but they got there at the expense of a team that would've loved to be there.

Bolton will be the surprise package this season. He's getting a nice little squad over there with some real quality.

Blame it on the ball, everyone else is.

disagree

Fuck me, on the right god damnit she's hot.

two come to mind. 1) Absolutely smashed a volley from a low cross at the top of the 18 and it went in. 2) An admittedly sweet right upper 90 curler from outside the box. I was pretty astonished that it had gone in - just out of the keepers' reach.

What did he do? How would a foul on a USA player rule out a USA goal? It would be a penalty. You guys need to brush up on the rules. "You guys" ?

"Official FIFA play by play says goal was disallowed for foul on Edu, not offside."

Better than the Slovenian badge that looks like an Olympic logo.

The problem with the non-goal is that he was looking directly at Bocanegra who was man-handling his dude, although it was totally 50/50. If he were looking at anyone else it would've stood.

Really trying to stay positive about this but I am honestly fucking gutted. Football can be a cruel cruel game.