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Dwight,
I love soccer. I played in an adult league for 6 years about 15 years ago. I don't care to watch it either. Soccer (imitation football) is a participant's sport.
I am glad for whoever wins the final.
I was never good at basketball, but soccer, I was very good. It's basketball with your feet.

Come on TRINIDAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grzegorz,
What is it about the teams you support losing 2 - 0 all the time? Any chance you could support Germany?

I don't have cable or satellite. What national US network is carrying the games?

Folks sure get their panties in a bunch around here easiy, huh? I guess any comments about Germany doing well in the WC being a "Triumph of the Will" would go over like a fart in church then...

Being a Bayern Munich fan since the 70's, when the great Franz Beckenbauer was patrolling the midfield for them, I've been rooting for Germany ever since. It was all due to watching Socccer Made in Germany on PBS back then.

My great grandfather was an immigrant to this country back around 1890 when he and his brothers came over from Germany, and they settled in Fresno, Calif...so I also have that tie in to the Germans.

Tomorrow is the game! Sweden against England. Sweden wins with 3-1. What do you think?
Actually Sweden hasn't lost a game with England since -68!)

I've tried to watch soccer, really. Numorous times. So I tried again Saturday for US vs Italy. I went to our proper Irish bub, Paddy Cassidy's and ordered up a Smithwicks and watched. I watched some more. I had another Smithwicks, and watched some more. Man, these guys sure run alot, do the ever score? YEAH!! Sombody scored...oh...rats. I watched some more. I got tired watching them run so much, I left before the amazing tie game ended and went home to nap.
I tried again....sorry. I used to think Nascar was boring with all those left turns, but at least there is some fender rubbing, high speed competition. Maybe soccer is like Scotch...ya have to aquire a taste for it. I'm not a quitter, so I'll probably try it again. Maybe I didn't drink enough...

Tom.

Try rugby...if you can find it on TV. Setanta has games, but you have to have Directv to get it. Some bars/pubs carry Setanta over here, but none where I live. That's why I download games off the internet. Just finished downloading New Zealand vs Ireland 2nd test last night.

Rugby is a much better game. No diving, no fake squirming whussies allowed, and no disrespect towards the ref. Not that I don't watch soccer, but this World Cup has shown all that's wrong with the game. Too many yellow and red cards just encourages more diving to lure the ref into reaching into his pocket to card the opposition. The USA v Italy match has been the defining moment so far when 3 players were sent off. I can see why they're doing it...to cut down on the hack jobs of slower players, and punish those who foul to interrupt the flow of the game. Too bad they get carried away with it and just disrupt the flow even more....that's if the ref even gets it right.

A lot of the time it's just a slight bump and a player goes sprawling to the ground in an obvious dive. How many times have you seen a player rolling around on the ground in agony, and then a couple of minutes later he's back on the pitch as if nothing had happened. You could've sworn he was gravely injured, but in reality it was nothing more than playing drama queen.

So........, soccer is just like the WWF?

england v sweden ...tough game tough call ,1 all tie i,d say(unless henriks in form ) . ecuador v germany another tough game, ecuador by one goal in this one(i hope) . and for our american bros( that dont like the beautiful game )i,m sure there,s a world class baseball game on ..........not

Well it isn't fixed like the WWF, or at least I THINK it isn't fixed. What with the recent match fixing scandal in Germany for league games, and the ongoing investigation into Juventus in Italy for rigging referree assignments, sometimes it makes you wonder.

England managed not to break their bogey team record against Sweden tonight
Still haven't beaten them in 34 years!!

2-1 up with a minute to go and Sweden equalised. Grrrr!
England still go through top of their group and avoid Germany in the next round.

Generally a good game and I think England played better than their previous two games.

Sunday 4pm KO against Group A runners up, Equador.

Come on Equador !!!!!!!!!!

Hey Greg, *parp*

Ooops, Grzegorz.

Hey Grzegorz, *parp*

Do you mean we're not gonna get knocked out in the next round and life can go back to normal...?

Though I will admit my train this evening was a whole lot quieter than normal, and that is a good thing...

right on grzegorz ,however after that display against ze germans i,d say the english should struggle to a 2 goal win hehheh . best game yet for england ,coles goal was sweet(how it pains this scot to say that )but good ole henry saves the day . the argies and the dutch looks like a great game, i,ll take the argies (cause i got them to win the group/hol2nd in my pool) .... and no simonr i never bet on football...........much

the saint and greavsey now that was a great football show . are they two still around ?

For the first half England played better than their 2 previous matches, but outside of Gerrard's goal Sweden I thought got the better of them in the 2nd half. Beckham has to do better than he did in this game, and England better shore up their defense on set pieces. Who knows what the outcome would've been if Ibrahimovich could've played, and there were 2 Sweden shots that hit the crossbar. Overall I thought England were lucky to get a tie out of it, despite leading 2-1 in the 85th minute.

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England managed not to break their bogey team record against Sweden tonight
Still haven't beaten them in 34 years!!

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Sorry Adey, but it's actually 38 years