[aldo_14]

You're not actually serious, are you? They don't actually talk like that... do they? Please say no and save my sanity.

I'm afraid so.

A 'play' has just been ruled offside for Coasta Reeka.  Apparently Ecuador are putting on a 'clinic' (the summariser said that twice, now; I think he should be in a clinic) and 'eliciting frustration' with their pesses.  This section of the match is being brought thanks to T-Mobile.

Oh, and some 'great lateral cover' there (i.e. defender covered the ball).

Like nails down a blackboard.

EDIT; did you know, you become a Cinderella team by coming out of nowhere and winning a knock-out game?  Oh, and that's some great 'officiating' there by the referee.

EDIT; oh god, now we've just had a trailer for the 'Kia Half Time analysis' cover half the screen, replete with some brief banter as to how amusing/great the name 'Rhys Davies' is.  This section of the match is being brought to you by Kia.  And some more screen-obscuring ads & stats (just a quarter of the screen, now), replete with incredibly annoying transition noises.

And Roger Gomez has been 'tackled away'.

EDIT; he's SHOUTING because the deflection has HIT THE POST!  (only noticing that this had happened a good minute after it had pinged away, and 5 minutes later that the keeper had saved it).  The summariser has gone a wee bit hoarse from shouting. And now they're talking about a Us player scoring from a similar position in 2002, and trailing 'one of the worlds great soacker nations' Italy, who have Toayti.  This section of the match is brought to you by Adidas.

(de la Cruz played for 'Austin' Villa apparently.  Jesus.)

[Shade]

Great game by Ecuador. Their match vs Germany should be quite interesting... and going by current form, I think they could actually win. I hope so anyway, I like their offensive style, we need more of that in football. Although this whole tournament so far has already delivered far more goals than is normal for the first round matches, so maybe it's a general trend towards more interesting games... one can hope anyway

[aldo_14]

I think using a flyaway mouldmaster probably helped, too

[Shade]

Sure you weren't watching wrestling? Would explain much...

[Edit] Holy ****... T&T should be ahead with that chance... that was unbelievably close. Is England trying to lose or what?

[Edit] 0-0 at the break. But T&T could have been ahead by two, definitely had the biggest chances (though not the most, by far). England look like they're all playing with a broken leg, what with that lack of pace in both running and passing they continue to display.

[Edit] England getting better finally. Now playing like a 2nd division team instead of conference league. 'Lampard shots way above the goal' count = 14ish or so... I forgot to count

Oohh, I think they moved up to 1st division now as I was typing that. Definite progress.

[Edit] Finally! England 1-0. About damn time... and deserved at this point as they've upped their game, but wouldn't really have been much earlier.

And 2-0. Nice to see them pick themselves up like that near the end and actually play real football.

[Kie99]

That was shocking.  I know they won 2-0, but Crouch was awful, and so was Lampard.  We should be scoring more than 2 against Trinidad and Tobago.  We'll really need to step up a gear if we're going to get any further than the Quarters.

[Night Hammer]

who would yall play in the quarters assuming yall win the pool?


new power rankings from SI.com for yall to mull over
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/jonah_freedman/06/15/cup.rankings/index.html

[BlackDove]

Sweden's blowing vs Paraguay right now.

This one comes to mind...

Jebite se fudbaleri
s trzista mi ti ne seri
svi imate strasnu cenu
a serete po terenu

Rade vas k'o volove
daju vama golove
joj joj joj joj joooj

Jebite se fudbaleri
igrate k'o penzioneri
zezaju vas svi na seve
imate dve noge leve

Rade vas k'o volove
daju vama golove
joj joj joj joj joooj

Jebite se fudbaleri
igrate k'o amateri
koji li je vama kurac
niste ni za palilulac

Rade vas k'o volove
daju vama golove
joj joj joj joj joooj

[Shade]

Paraguay are definitely smelling blood right now. Sweden look struck by what shall henceforth be called the 'england syndrome'*, plenty chances but no decent finishing whatsoever... very poor. And Paraguay are good enough to be a real threat in the other end.

* unless Sweden keep this up the whole game, then it will be the 'swedengland syndrome'.

[Edit] Hm. I thought the swedes were pretty decent in the first half, aside from not scoring. But right now they're just god-awful. It's almost embaressing.

[aldo_14]

who would yall play in the quarters assuming yall win the pool?


new power rankings from SI.com for yall to mull over
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/jonah_freedman/06/15/cup.rankings/index.html

'power' rankings
*hack spit*

(Trinidad higher than Ghana?  You must be taking the piss......)

[Shade]

Yay, Sweden 1-0 Paraguay. All it took was getting two strikers from the top Danish league (Elmander and Allbeck) onto the field

[aldo_14]

Cor-rikey.

[Night Hammer]

'power' rankings
*hack spit*

(Trinidad higher than Ghana?  You must be taking the piss......)

haha I didnt say they were mine, I do like Spain that high though

[Colonol Dekker]

That expresses my feelings for yesteray perfectly.........

[NGTM-1R]

Perhaps I'm merely insane.

But that guy on the far right there looks like he's puking out his nose.

[Colonol Dekker]

There are no "Far Right" English fans 

[IPAndrews]

What's mine is mine
What's yours is mine
You must understand
That this ain't a crime
No turning back
When you cross the line
People c'mon
Its riot time

[Colonol Dekker]

You know it! Safe blud' Riots are our national pastime, there was one at canary wharf last saturday too I dunno if it made the news but Millwall (my family team) were definately a factor..

[aldo_14]

Argentina-Serbia next.

Replete with terrifying awful ESPN commentary (ulp)

[Flipside]

It's a pity you can't record the audio, it sounds quite comical, though there were some classic Capt. Obvious quotes from the ITV commentator yesterday during the English game.

[Colonol Dekker]

BBC or ITV is the true viewers way...... Or sky spports


ESPN = YooEssAy cackpants !!