Well done NZL, you guys should be proud regardless. Sorry you had to go so soon.

6/24/2010 11:53:47 AM

alright, now slovakia is pissing me off as much as italy normally does

6/24/2010 11:54:42 AM

lol at Italy having to deal with injury time wasting

6/24/2010 11:54:43 AM

haha slovakia rolling on the ground at every opportunity

reminds me of the umd-ncsu game where umd was out of timeouts so friedgen had two offensive linesmen run into each other and fall down grabbing their legs

and it worked

6/24/2010 11:54:46 AM

this is what Italy gets for trying to walk through group play like they were guaranteed a spot in the knockout round just for being Italy. Maybe if they dove a little less and played as hard as they did this 2nd half they would have earned advancement. Either way, I have no problems seeing them go home.

6/24/2010 11:55:48 AM

Best World Cup ever.

6/24/2010 11:58:07 AM

good riddance italy.

thank god for america, else amac884 would have no one to root for right now...lol

6/24/2010 11:58:42 AM

so much for this being a boring WC

the final game group stage games have all been intense as hell

6/24/2010 11:59:01 AM

yea this has not been a boring WC at all. You could argue the 1st round of group play but not the last 2 by any means.

6/24/2010 12:00:48 PM

well that's what all those early ties do... set up epic dramatic final games where anybody can qualify

6/24/2010 12:01:32 PM

which is good!

unlike colin cowherds choad replacement who thought the us has 2 (or nearly 2) scoreless draws.... fucking idiot, then he was saying how he watched the last match....

dude you're supposed to be watching or at least KNOW the scores for all 3 games... not a lot going on right now, i think you could take the 5 min to at least have the scores in front of you before you go spouting off the wrong results

6/24/2010 12:02:11 PM

6/24/2010 12:02:34 PM

wow just saw the highlights. slovakia had some nice goals/attempts

6/24/2010 12:06:33 PM

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"CIAO you stupid Italian bitches"

6/24/2010 12:12:25 PM

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"lol at Italy having to deal with injury time wasting"

My thought too. It couldn't have happened to a better team.

6/24/2010 12:13:15 PM

oh my, what a result. i earlier said that italy would dive their way into the quarterfinals despite their pathetic performance, and i couldn't be any more happier to know that i was wrong.

6/24/2010 12:23:46 PM

I haven't followed the World Cup, but what's all this recent commotion about Vuvuzelas (sp?)? It seems like it's the buzz word for every media outlet, they love hearing the sound of their own voices just mentioning them.

They don't seem new to me, been seeing them for many years. So, what's with all the attention they've been getting lately? They make a new noise they didn't make before, or is it related to a massive increase in how many people in the crowd have one?

6/24/2010 12:35:07 PM

yeah, I was talking to a co-worker about this the other day because he was asking me if I had one. And I was like, I'm pretty sure you've seen somebody at a game before with a long, annoying horn and he said "oh yeah, I have seen those at some of the high school football games"

I guess it's never been a stadium full of people with them so they're more noticeable? Or because they have a name like vuvuzela instead of just "horn?"

6/24/2010 12:39:16 PM

I am pissed at myself for forgetting about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Di8QT98Zk&feature=player_embedded#!

6/24/2010 12:57:41 PM

"One."

6/24/2010 1:06:21 PM

My top 10 teams going into the 2nd round

1. Netherlands
2. Argentina
3. Portugal
4. Spain
5. Brazil
6. Germany
7. England
8. USA
9. Mexico
10. South Korea

6/24/2010 1:13:52 PM

Spain isn't locked in yet.....

6/24/2010 1:15:36 PM

true

6/24/2010 1:31:18 PM

dude, its lafta, that list is all jacked up. Chile and Uruguay should be on there somewhere.

6/24/2010 1:32:18 PM

yeh, how can you put a team in Mexico ahead of a team like Uruguay, when Uruguay beat them?

Among other things about that list.

6/24/2010 1:36:29 PM

while the english broadcast of Donovans goal yesterday was epic, the spanish version is even better.

http://www.fanaticos.com/2010/06/23/asi-narro-andres-cantor-el-gol-de-landon-donovan/

click the little button above the picture to listen to it

6/24/2010 1:39:28 PM

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"how can you put a team in Mexico ahead of a team like Uruguay"

i pick my list not only on world cup play but potential, all factors put together mexico is way better than uruguay, they just had a bad game against them

teams like england still r not playing to potential but they can easily beat any team on the list, so we'll see

6/24/2010 1:43:38 PM

^^LOL

simply amazing

6/24/2010 1:52:31 PM

^^^

GOOOOOOOOL

[Edited on June 24, 2010 at 2:17 PM. Reason : knock it off -- last warning]

6/24/2010 1:55:56 PM

someone just suspend God from this thread

where can i see the British broadcast of Donovan's goal? i lol'd at that one ^^^^

6/24/2010 2:02:13 PM

^^^^awesome. i don't get why so many americans hate mexicans.

6/24/2010 2:03:51 PM

I don't hate Mexicans in general

I hate the majority of their players and the way the fans treat our players when we play there

6/24/2010 2:05:25 PM

spanish as a whole are fine...some messicans are dirty

6/24/2010 2:05:39 PM

http://deadspin.com/5571222/a-childrens-treasury-of-drunk-people-screaming-about-donovans-goal

6/24/2010 2:10:34 PM

Please suspend the asshat that fucked up this page.



Oh and more Dutch girls in orange please

6/24/2010 2:17:03 PM

God, if I could suspend you from this thread alone I would have already. That said, I've warned you to knock off the trolling. Last warning. If you try and derail by trolling everyone about the US or if you do anything to fuck up this thread again, you are gone until the end of the World Cup. Consider this your last warning

If you have a problem with that, don't fuck up this thread -- do it via PM.

*** Also, for everyone, if people are in here trying to derail the thread let me know via PM since that's the only way I'll be able to deal with it. I'm not gonna be on very much until Sunday or so really (busy weekend) so the only way I'll check TWW is through my Iphone -- I only really check PMs on there since it's a pain to browse.

[Edited on June 24, 2010 at 2:28 PM. Reason : added]

6/24/2010 2:19:25 PM

JUST LIKE A WAVIN' FLAG

6/24/2010 2:20:36 PM

^^^^ those are awesome. i can't get enough of the reaction videos. my brother and i were holding hands and jumping up and down screaming. it was SUPER gay. good thing we were not in public.

oops - too slow. beach internet is slow internet.

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"while the english broadcast of Donovans goal yesterday was epic, the spanish version is even better. "

hahahahahaa. just listened. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL. *pause* gooooooooooooooooal.

man that was awesome. i'm still happy.

i enjoyed watching the italy game this AM too. clearly not as emotionally invested in that but it was fun game to watch.

[Edited on June 24, 2010 at 2:28 PM. Reason : .]

6/24/2010 2:21:51 PM

^^^ thanks

6/24/2010 2:26:02 PM

where's a good bar around here to get involved in similar shenanigans to those videos on Saturday?

6/24/2010 2:27:47 PM

@ NyM410

Didn't realize it didn't page wrap, sorry. I was just vocalizing what he said. I don't think that falls into trolling or derailing or anything!

That celebration was awesome! We should get Mexican announcers on ESPN.

[Edited on June 24, 2010 at 2:28 PM. Reason : ]

[Edited on June 24, 2010 at 2:29 PM. Reason : ]

6/24/2010 2:28:33 PM

NyM4Life

6/24/2010 2:29:10 PM

^^^ tir na nog! (if you are in raleigh)

^ awwww you guys are bff now.

[Edited on June 24, 2010 at 2:29 PM. Reason : .]

6/24/2010 2:29:12 PM

Quote :

"where's a good bar around here to get involved in similar shenanigans to those videos on Saturday?"

Tobacco Road and Hibernian were both WALL to WALL with screaming fans during the England game... gotta get their VERY early though. I got there at 1pm and couldn't even get seats for the 2:30 game.

^^^ fair enough, man... just got a few complaints about the USA trolling too. Don't really want to warn for differing views but people thought you went a bit too far. Just tone it down a bit, even if you are being sarcastic.

[Edited on June 24, 2010 at 2:31 PM. Reason : x]

6/24/2010 2:30:17 PM

I was at Bonnaroo for the England game, and that shit was nuts.

Had to work/watch ESPN3 for the last 2.

Going out in full force Saturday.

6/24/2010 2:33:30 PM

Annnnnnnyway

here's the plan for these current games



looks like denmark/japan is the one to watch, because who cares if camaroon wins

[Edited on June 24, 2010 at 2:36 PM. Reason : ]

6/24/2010 2:35:27 PM

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"those are awesome. i can't get enough of the reaction videos. my brother and i were holding hands and jumping up and down screaming"

haha yea those are great. I am soooo glad a few friends and I decided to leave work to head to a place near us down here because I probably would have yelled out loud at work (no joke). I was (along with everyone else at the bar) jumping up and down, yelling, high-fiving everyone around me. Some people had brought vuvuzelas to the bar and used them (only time they used them), two guys were running around waiving american flags, the bar owners threw a few adidas balls into the mayhem for people to grab (no one knew what was going on with those though, it was honestly kind of weird haha). I honestly wish I had a reaction video at the bar I was at just so I could re-watch it (mainly to see how stupid we looked )

[Edited on June 24, 2010 at 2:47 PM. Reason : ]

6/24/2010 2:45:12 PM

I went to lunch early at a Mexican restaurant where I was the only US fan. I was screaming and yelling "Los Aritros van a tomar este gol tambien?" Which made all the Hispanic people rofl.

Also, god damn HONDA!

6/24/2010 2:48:25 PM

just tuned in to see japan score. perfect kick

6/24/2010 2:49:04 PM

yeah I think that settles the jabulani argument

6/24/2010 2:49:16 PM