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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-11-10 11:37 PM
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England-USA
The first big match of the tournament. :bounce:

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=249722/match=300061466/index.html

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/preview?id=264043&league=FIFA.WORLD
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 06:40 AM
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1. And it is being played under a Solar Eclipse
Could be an exceptional event. As I homer, I am going with the USA !
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 01:09 PM
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2. Altidore and Finley start up front....FIRE BOB BRADLEY NOW!
They can send him packing before the match even starts, right?
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 01:14 PM
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3. Then again, Don Fabio is starting Heskey
Maybe Heskey and Altidore will crash each other out of the tournament. Who am I kidding, Heskey eats an Altidore-sized plate of eggs for breakfast every day.
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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 01:35 PM
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4. and the US is already down 4 minutes in
Edited on Sat Jun-12-10 01:35 PM by Cush
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JonLP24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 02:13 PM
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6. It's all knotted up now
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Liberal_Dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 02:12 PM
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5. Gooooaaalllll!!!!!
USA!!!

1-1!!!
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Indianademocrat91 Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 02:14 PM
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7. Can the British stop anything??
:bounce:
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 12:17 PM
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15. They have no good options for goal keeper.
And their defense is porous. The US should have been able to make more runs at it than they did.
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Indianademocrat91 Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 08:45 PM
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17. I think that the US
was playing it safe for the most part and the times when they did break off of that strategy they had great opportunitites like donavons lob which altidore just missed heading it in and altidores break away speed play where he hit the crossbar.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 02:36 PM
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8. Can someone please explain to this newbie
Edited on Sat Jun-12-10 02:36 PM by rocktivity
WHAT THE HECK THAT BUZZING SOUND IS???

x(
rocktivity
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JonLP24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 02:38 PM
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9. Horns n/t
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 02:48 PM
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10. They blow horns for two hours staight???
No wonder this is such a low-scoring game!

:rofl:
rocktivity
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 03:14 PM
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11. I know. I can't watch it with the sound on.
Edited on Sat Jun-12-10 03:16 PM by Iggo
They really need to figure out how to filter out that horn sound. I can turn on some metal and watch with the sound off, but I bet a million other casual watchers just change the channel rather than put up with that racket.

(I spel gud)
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 03:33 PM
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12. It's an Africa thing.
You don't hear that at most games. Though the Koreans like those slapstick thingies.
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Lars77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 04:47 PM
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13. It's called a Vuvuzela
And it's horrible. It's an African thing, at the opener with the hosts playing it was 80.000 of them inside the stadium. It was absolutely deafening.

It ruins a lot of the experience of a game, because it takes away all the oohs and aahs and spontaneous reactions.
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-10 10:55 PM
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14. Oohs and ahhhs?
Uh, not really. It takes away the great singing and chanting that one experiences in Europe, South America, and is starting to pick up a bit in the US, mostly in the northwest, where there will be three teams with great fans, who have huge song repertoires for their teams, in the MLS next year.
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Lars77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 04:09 PM
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16. My point..
Edited on Sun Jun-13-10 04:15 PM by Lars77
was that it disconnects the fans from the game because the spontaneous reactions to the action is drowned out completely. If you don't see the pitch you dont know whether there's a game on or if it's half time. Same goes for the singing and anything else.

So we're actually talking about the same thing.
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insanity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 10:58 PM
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18. I kind of like it actually
I think it adds to the experience of the Cup in South Africa, and I think you can follow the action with the loudness of the horns. Also, espn seems to have gotten better at filtering the sound.
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Lars77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-10 10:00 AM
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19. No filtering here unfortunately nt
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-10 11:22 AM
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20. This assessment seems spot on to me.
http://www.realclearsports.com/blognetwork/the_cup_running_over/2010/06/review-of-england-usa-once-again-football-isnt-coming-home.html
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