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Souleymanou making his bid for the goalkeeper blunder reel.

Aggghhhh the vuvuzelas are unbearable in this one. Elia really impressing so far.

Messi and Arteta are pretty different though. Messi came to Spain when he was 13 and has Spanish relatives. Arteta was signed in his mid-20s by an English team. Not saying that Messi should play for us, but I think it's blurrier than you make it sound. Honestly, I think if you have been living in your adoptive country a decent amount of years before your majority of age (how many I don't know), I think you should be eligible.

I'd take Deuce for no other reason than Don't Tread, man. I still can't get over it. Dempsey has to shoot a hip hop video with himself throwing 100$ bills to the camera.

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Germany to be knocked out of the WC in three years then. Ok, now talking seriously, Spain are historically a bit on the offending side of this so I can be a bit biased. That said - and I don't know the biographical particulars of these German players - if we are talking people that moved to Germany as children and grew up there despite being foreign-born, I have no issue with that.

Quite an eventful day today. Sandro Rosell has - expectedly - won the FC Barcelona election. May God give him wisdom and silverware. Meanwhile, Real Sociedad and Levante have been promoted to first division. Looking forward seeing the txuri-urdin back where they belong Betis and Hércules will fight out the remaining spot, they are tied at 68 points with one game remaining and Hércules holds the head-to-head.

Was just shit goalkeeping. The ball wasn't really going in fast.

Barça's holding their election today. Frontrunner is Sandro Rosell, but wouldn't be the first time we have an upset. Results should start coming in after 8pm.

Man, when I'm going to see a 3 goal game in this tournament.

Best moment of the whole match: watching it with a West Ham fan saying how good Green was minutes before he let that one in I found the match a bit s*** in the second half, but the atmosphere was great. Most of the yanks in the pub had obviously never watched a football game before and were yelling and cheering for throw-ins, skyed shots and USA stringing two passes together. But it was great. English goaltendering man, the gift that keeps on giving

Off to a Brooklyn pub with some American and English friends. This is going to be a fucking blast. Cue mandatory 0-0 bore draw.

Argentina should commit more players to the attack, forwards are getting the ball 30 yards off the goal with a cloud of Nigerian defenders in front of them.

I don't know if I'm just filtering them out already, but I find the vuvuzelas much less noticeable in this game. Which is good.

Lineker was my first Barça boyhood hero. Absolutely love him. Legend

No. Lineker came a few years after Maradona left.

I know, and in the couple Argie qual games I saw him doing so, he's been as lost as in this game. He's no worse defensively than Glen Johnson is. Damning with faint praise there.

I know, and in the couple Argie qual games I saw him doing so, he's been as lost as in this game.

Jonás would be great as a Kuytesque workhorse winger, but deploying him as RB is just madness.

Higuaín reverting to pre-2009 finishing. I overslept and missed the Korean game, fuck.

I still get confused by it, since my first instinct is to think it means playing badly since you couldn't see well with blinders on.

The noise really doesn't annoy me anymore tbh, I just tune them out completely for the most part. What is bad and what somebody else mentioned in this thread is the way they destroy a proper atmosphere developing. Instead of chanting and the roar when a chance happens all you get is the constant droaning of the horns - it's boring if anything. "proper atmosphere" Did it occur to you that the vuvuzelas are a large part of their atmosphere? You're not in Kansas anymore Dorothy. They're commercial toys that have been imported there over the last few years. I think VI said that they were used in Spain in the 80s when some spanner decided to import them there aswell. They're not 'cultural' in any way, shape or form. Like I said the sound generally doesn't bother me, It's just there and it certainly doesn't ruin it for me. However it's just a bit sad that it's the only thing that can be heard, no chants, no roar of the crowd at certain moments - hell even a drum would be nice to mix it up a bit. Part of the fun of the World Cup is the different noises that the different fans from over the world make during games, but all there is this time is the same horns. It's boring. Yeah, they became popular when I started going to games during the late 1980s-early 1990s. They were cheap, and they were noisy. You can still hear them at Spanish stadia Some Barça fans playing them here: The vuvuzelas are as much unique to South African football culture as breathing and standing on two legs. some Barca charvers in there A lot of people in the video are Boixos Nois, which are the hooligan firm of Barça and thus imitate a lot of the dressing codes of British hooligans.

The noise really doesn't annoy me anymore tbh, I just tune them out completely for the most part. What is bad and what somebody else mentioned in this thread is the way they destroy a proper atmosphere developing. Instead of chanting and the roar when a chance happens all you get is the constant droaning of the horns - it's boring if anything. "proper atmosphere" Did it occur to you that the vuvuzelas are a large part of their atmosphere? You're not in Kansas anymore Dorothy. They're commercial toys that have been imported there over the last few years. I think VI said that they were used in Spain in the 80s when some spanner decided to import them there aswell. They're not 'cultural' in any way, shape or form. Like I said the sound generally doesn't bother me, It's just there and it certainly doesn't ruin it for me. However it's just a bit sad that it's the only thing that can be heard, no chants, no roar of the crowd at certain moments - hell even a drum would be nice to mix it up a bit. Part of the fun of the World Cup is the different noises that the different fans from over the world make during games, but all there is this time is the same horns. It's boring. Yeah, they became popular when I started going to games during the late 1980s-early 1990s. They were cheap, and they were noisy. You can still hear them at Spanish stadia Some Barça fans playing them here: The vuvuzelas are as much unique to South African football culture as breathing and standing on two legs.

All teams not named Barcelona and Real Madrid (supposedly) are on the verge of financial collapse, so there's going to be no spending and much less catching up. Valencia and Atlético are pretty fucked. Sevilla are quite healthy and they are getting CL football again, but so far the transfer window isn't looking good with Luís Fabiano, Adriano, Navas... linked to moves out (again they always seem to replace those big players when they lose them). So yes, it's going to be boring. We'll see what happens with the strife at the LFP between the big and the small teams though.

There's absolutely no chance that Bilbao will finish 3rd. They are an upper midtable team with an outside chance to make EL spots, and nothing else, due to their limited player pool. Javi Martínez has been the lynchpin of their midfield and is expected to progress more, but really it won't happen. They haven't finished 3rd since the 1980s...