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More like "World Cup SPOILED." It’s France 98 Redux. Germany will be in the final.
Argentina did a masterful job of exposing the lack of quality in this German team for 70+ minutes, until their manager Jose Peckerhead made one of the all-time idiotic substitutions in the history of douchedom. With his options already limited by [...]

I don’t know if its legal but I suspect that play would be hugely popular with Korean players.

The games are getting good now. I’m glad Korea actually thought for a moment that they might advance and then didn’t. That hurts more. I guess that actually is a spoiler for someone really out of the loop. Those Japanese girls teaching English were great. If anyone wants to know what my life was like [...]

A Russian tourist gets some unusual photographs of North Korea:

Finally got around to posting links to some recent DVD reviews:

The Hills Have Eyes: Unrated Version (2006)
The Omen: Collector’s Edition (1976)

16 Blocks
Valley of the Dolls

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

So much for Ghana. Brazil started swiftly,with a quick, classic goal from Ronaldo that made him the all-time top World Cup goal scorer. After that, however, Ghana rose to the challenge and attacked and came close several times but rarely troubled Dida in Brazil’s goal. Right before half-time Brazil scored their second as the linesman [...]

Typo….MSL was supposed to be MLS.
Also Eric Wynalda ripped on Bruce Arena to shreds in yesterday’s analysis. It seems like the other commentators were in disagreement and uncomfortable.
Wynalda thinks Arena was a good coach in the past, but that in this cup Arena set them up to fail by not playing the players [...]

Beckham and Posh just need to move to LA and play in the MSL. It’s going to end very badly for them in England–particularly if England keeps playing the way they have. The NYT has a front page story today on the Beckham phenomenon and backlash that is growing as his skills [...]

Why is there a history in the World Cup of coaches not putting in hot strikers into games. Baggio and Signori not being used, RVN for Holland, that Turkish guy who always won the game for Turkey in ‘02 off the bench (but who they left out when they needed him much), Messi and that [...]

Did I say this was going to be a day to forget? Italy proved that no team is too mediocre to make them struggle as they repeatedly failed to breach Australia’s workmanlike defense. Not much changed after Italy were reduced to 10-men. The Socceroos’ captain and star forward, Mark Viduka, was pointless, and the Italians [...]

I don’t think we have to worry about the Japanese going militant on us again in the future. At least we don’t have to worry about the women. This video could ONLY have been made in Japan.
Dan, enjoy laughing your guts out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=864B8BiIFJw&mode=user&searc

This is cool. Find out what your name would be if you were a Brazillian soccer star by entering your name. I would be Patrinho.
http://www.minimalsworld.net/BrazilName/brazilian.shtml

That game was fascinating. It was amazing to watch Portugal playing with 10 players and then 9 players and still cover the whole field constantly foiling Holland’s game.
Some things I wonder about:
Why is there a history in the World Cup of coaches not putting in hot strikers into games. [...]

Another day of knockout games saw England take on surprise finalists Ecuador in a match than can charitably be described as uninspiring. England almost started with a nightmare as sloppy defending let Tenorio through on goal, but his slight hesitation in shooting allowed Ashley Cole to race back and deflect his shot onto the crossbar [...]

On the first day of the knockout stages, Germany hit two quick goals to leave Sweden reeling, and looked like getting more until Sweden was reduced to 10 men at 35 minutes. After the sending off, Germany went into neutral and Sweden looked like a new team, but the Scandanavians remained impotent, with star striker [...]

In the last day of group stage matches, Spain fielded an entirely different lineup from their opening match, raising questions about the depth (and motivation) of their squad by beating lowly Suadi Arabia by just one goal, 1-0. Despite dominating the the entire first half, Spain rarely looked interested in asserting themselves. S.A.’s poor finishing [...]

Though this post contains no actual scores, the contents may inform you of
today’s winners, losers, and/or draws.
The following standings are based
on all teams having each played three games (48 in total) and are arranged in the
usual sort order of points, goal difference, and goals scored. All the teams ranked lower than 16th have been eliminated [...]

The Britney Interview you didn’t see. This is pretty funny.

http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1696056/

In my review of yesterday’s matches I mentioned the oddity of a player being red carded after the final whistle of Croatia v. Australia. Well, it gets weirder. In what must surely be night to forget for English referee Graham Poll, the player he sent off after the game was over had received THREE yellow [...]