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World Cup is here

Ja Rhule

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Razzy Newbie

Razzy

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This is how tomorrow needs to go for me to be a 100% happy camper:

1) U.S. over Algeria

2) Germany over Ghana

3) England over Slovenia with less than 2 English goals scored

4) Australia over Serbia, or a 0-0 tie

Razzy sayeth, and so it shall be. Can't wait for the tourny to start.

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gotta love the British press.

With Bill Clinton sitting in the grandstands and America proving unable to score........

as news filtered through that the final whistle had sounded in Port Elizabeth, England were sitting top of Group C, Slovenia were second and America, for all their desperate efforts, were out of the competition.

Close, but no cigar, as Bill might say.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/worldcup2010/article-1288885/WORLD-CUP-2010-United-States-1-Algeria-0--Last-gasp-Landon-Donovan-goal-sends-Americans-Group-C-winners.html#ixzz0rjmmQIjc

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Two shoutouts that must be given:

1. ESPN/Univision: Univision for providing the most trustworthy stream for the match and ESPN for getting top overseas talent like Martin Taylor and Ian Darke to announce. The last thing I want to here is some washed up American player making clumsy calls, wearing out tired metaphors and talking about taking "PK's" (penalties, you twat*!).

Taylor's a work of art. I wasn't crazy about Darke, but his call of Donovan's goal is instantly put into American soccer folklore.

2. M'Bohli - The Algerian keeper was unreal in this game. But for an unlucky rebound, he was perfect in the face of a hurricane of American shots.

The Desert Foxes seem to resign themselves to taking the moral victory of keeping both England and the US out of the net leading to a massive amount of Yank shots. M'Bohli almost stopped them all.

*For those unfamiliar with the term, "twat" is British for Ginger haired American ex-defensive backs that finally got a haircut.

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Carolina Husker

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Two shoutouts that must be given:

1. ESPN/Univision: Univision for providing the most trustworthy stream for the match and ESPN for getting top overseas talent like Martin Taylor and Ian Darke to announce. The last thing I want to here is some washed up American player making clumsy calls, wearing out tired metaphors and talking about taking "PK's" (penalties, you twat*!).

Taylor's a work of art. I wasn't crazy about Darke, but his call of Donovan's goal is instantly put into American soccer folklore.

Martin Tyler was good too. ;)

Darke was not mincing words at all about the officiating, and I liked that. But there's just something a bit odd about an American accent and World Cup commentary that I can't fully embrace. ABC made a great call bringing in Tyler as a legitimate voice and not some yahoo in an effort to not startle the average fan. You're either going to get it (as I think most people have at this point judging by the coverage I saw) or you're not (see: Meat). And honestly, who wants those people around anyway?

I've watched the replay of that goal about 75 times since yesterday, and not enough can be said about how great Howard has been in this tourney. Other than perhaps the Birsa goal that left him completely flat-footed, he's been unbelievable, and that throw to Donovan on the break was the catalyst for that run and, ultimately, the goal.

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