WORLD CUP 2010

No clever thread titles. No fannying around. Just the beauty of the best tournament in the world.

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HE'S READY.

I shall play no further part in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEVdca9U9LM

I woke up this morning and the very first thing that popped into my head was "shit the World Cup starts today". It was like being a kid at Christmas.

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IS TIME

Good old Stig Tofting.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3226/2674794110_20c8fb916f.jpg

HE'S MAKING THE CIRCLE BIGGER:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_Ew6zsnDY

SHE'S WAKA WAKA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRpeEdMmmQ0

I'm supporting whoever Shakira's supporting

I didn't know that Chile line up in a 3-3-1-3 formation. I had no idea L-Jagz was managing them to World Cup glory.

http://news.3yen.com/wp-content/images/WAKA-WAKA-FONZIE.jpg

As a child I believed that 1-3-3-3 was the ideal formation, based entirely on the neatness with which one could line up a Subbuteo team on the pitch. It left no gaps. You even had a spare defender left over just in case, but he ruined the perfection of it so I'd probably've gone with 3-3-3, had I got the chance to manage in the world cup as a nine-year-old.

I woke up this morning and the very first thing that popped into my head was "shit the World Cup starts today". It was like being a kid at Christmas.

ahah, same here (and I woke up at 4.30am !).
anyone knows why shakira is present at every WC ?? (ok, only the previous one and this one but still...).

Shakira's probably the ultimate globalised pop star, more so than anyone from the US or UK.

i don't even know what time the first match is. or who's playing. but i'm XCITED

Opening ceremony at 1pm, kick-off at 3pm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfcuYtgv_Y0

I actually don't think there's anyone in the world who is more excited about the World Cup than Desmond Tutu. Dude can still work a crowd.

<3 Desmond

And, oh god, the first game's on ITV. Hope they're not in control of the cameras.

They're never in control of the cameras. Commentators sheepishly apologising for a lenghty close-up of a pair of jiggling Brazilian breasts is a World Cup institution.

I just saw Mark Viduka on television wearing a brown suede jacket and eating donuts in order to remind everyone THAT NOT JUST ANYONE GETS TO GO TO THE WOOOOORLD CUP

Is he still playing?

he's certainly still eating donuts

Mad rumours going round right now that Thierry Henry has failed a drugs test. If this is true the whole of Ireland is going to piss itself laughing.

Mad rumours going round right now that Thierry Henry has failed a drugs test. If this is true the whole of Irelandthe world is going to piss itself laughing.

― Matt DC, Friday, 11 June 2010 12:01 (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/11/nelson-mandela-great-granddaughter-killed

RIP Nelson Mandela's 13-year-old great-granddaughter, killed in a crash on the way home from last night's concert.

:(

permaban mark g and history mayne

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00278/Waldo_Ponce_278323s.jpg

HE'S READY

Via Twitter: "South Africa fan saw BBC mic, said to me: 'South Africa 0, Mexico 3!' Me: 'Really?' He roared: 'NO! THE OPPOSITE!' and burst out laughing."

this is taking forever, can they play the first game now? i've got nothing(lots but meh, laziness) to do till 3.

fuck it, i'm watching old royal rumbles and eating niknaks for 2 hours.

Watch last night's concert: http://worldcup.vevo.com/

tinariwen! saw these guys on the smallest stage on roskilde a couple of years ago...

so psyched. south africa - mexico could probably be a pretty good opening game too

fuck it, i'm watching old royal rumbles and eating niknaks for 2 hours.

Bloody students

no die antwoord no credibility

not a student anymore, should be bloody taxpayers

Tinariwen are the best music in the world for when you're at a festival with a hangover and the sun's beating down.

http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/ab134/ClutchlessBurgers/vuvuzela.jpg

aaaaaaaaaaargh

http://www.pcs.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dungbeetle.jpg

that's 50ft tall right?

R Kelly

What was giant cockroach thing all about (I had the sound off?)

I might have to miss the rest of this to go to a pub.

ITV's streaming thing = well rubbish.

R Kelly was in Kampala at the same time as me, half the city went to the gig. He played for exactly the contractual one hour and spent the last five minutes looking at his watch. Dude can charm an audience like Desmond Tutu.

wow this schedule really sucks for people on the west coast.

lol at argentinian training

watching via http://zattoo.com/#UK_itv1

not a student anymore, should be bloody taxpayers
― name (a hoy hoy), Friday, 11 June 2010 11:42 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i've got nothing(lots but meh, laziness) to do till 3.
― name (a hoy hoy), Friday, 11 June 2010 11:29 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

bloody lazy pen pusher more like ;)

huh, broke lesner won the royal rumble. forgot that ever happened. football started yet?

(iirc)

'mon the Chile. We can take these brazilians chancers nae danger!

that's the spirit

If it was the piece on BBC you're talking about then I think they basically said there aren't really any good African managers. About as insightful as Shearer Tackles Poverty.

outstanding next round coming up, yow.

http://www.mocksession.com/30fps/%20/TORRESDIVE.gif

also: grebt pics

Southgate: Torres actually trips over his own ankle.
Townsend: I'm not havin' that. No way. I know you're a defender mate but no way. Not havin' it.

Beautiful pictures, Mookie. I think #15 is my favourite.

picture 23!!!

26!!! 29!!!!!

37!!!

Has this been discussed yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keQ3y9JquMU

saw that today...so weird. wtf is up with the sit down/get up moments...

Capello OTM

I think that was some sort of awesome koan he inflicted on Psycho

that's superb. he lives our pain.

thoughts:
maybe the england players should press more
"barry, the fucking ball barry" it a pretty good summation of the second half of that game, and would work nicely as a team motto

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group stage is over & knockout stage begins today right? time for a new thread?

back in an '06 world cup thread i asked where i could find a table that broke down the teams knocked out. someone said, "that's not really done" and i promptly forgot about it, until today. So here it is, and a good ending for this thread. I'm drunk so i might have missed something, but yeah:

                    Points  Goal Differential Goals Scored
32. North Korea       0           -12             0
31. Cameroon          0            -3             2
30. Honduras          1            -3             0
29. France            1            -3             1
28. Algeria           1            -2             0
27. Nigeria           1            -2             3
26. Italy             2            -1             4
25. Greece            3            -3             2
24. Denmark           3            -2             3
23. Serbia            3            -1             2
22. New Zealand       3             0             2
21. Australia         4            -3             3
20. South Africa      4            -2             3
19. Switzerland       4             0             1
18. Slovenia          4             0             3
17. Ivory Coast       4            +1             4

north korea scored a goal

shit

the torres gif is great. he doesn't even trip over his feet, just bangs one ankle into the other chaplin style. was he trying to buy the card or just a free kick in a good area?

http://content6.flixster.com/photo/12/51/09/12510904_gal.jpg

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/photos/2006/06/28/l17419-1.jpg
donald o'connor, not chaplin...

Watch only the other guy to see that they did touch. Quite subtle and Torres (lol cell phone spelling suggesting Tosser) obviously did what he's trained to do (make the most out of any contact, especially there), but they did touch.

Sometimes when we touch
I dive so fucking much

dude taps torres' ankle with his knee and sends his foot flying into his standing leg. what's more, if u saw a wide shot, he pointedly changes angle in order to cut across the back of torres while studiously looking the other way.

haha that capello video - I always have to remind myself dude was a top-level player, his body always seems so warped and improbable.

I thought it was an accident. But someone was going to get sent off very soon and that guy had been lucky once already.

Also, if you're running at full pace it hardly needs any contact at all to knock you over. It'd be nice if football recognised that, instead of creating a situation where you don't get your free kicks or cards unless you dive, but that isn't going to change now. It's pretty sad, not just because it's shameful, but because some of the very best goals (Maradona riding tackles against Belgium, or Ronaldinho bouncing John Terry to the ground) wouldn't get scored today.

i keep thinking/hoping that Komt ie dannnnnnn...het WK topic. is about andrew wk

Eboue is learning Korean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LFZJIm3mD0

I wish I could speak Dutch, even just a little, so I could post there. When I see phrases like "Drogba_breekt_elleboog_en_mist_WK" or "Van der Vaart met baard = cool" I feel like I'm only one vowel sound away from cracking it.

It's almost english! Look:

breekt - breaks
elleboog - elbow
mist - misses
met - with
baard - beard

Go on, try it. :-)

Okay, ik hope dat de USA baats Ghana dis taag en progres voor de kwarter fijnels. Deuce met baard = ijs cold.

MY MOTHER? What does my mother have to do with this! I've never been this insulted!

;-)

Ismael Klata said StanM's mom has an open goal, pass it on

ik hope dat de USA baats ghana too

he's ready
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Q4FxzsSKc

love eboue nodding sagely. "wise words"

dude taps torres' ankle with his knee and sends his foot flying into his standing leg. what's more, if u saw a wide shot, he pointedly changes angle in order to cut across the back of torres while studiously looking the other way.

― iSleighBellsTellem (zvookster), Saturday, June 26, 2010 7:11 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if he hadn't changed angle he'd have run full tilt into torres.

That first gif starts a little too late to see, this one's better (don't know what the yellow thing is, found it like this)

http://www.abload.de/img/torreslentocm2x.gif

WORLD CUP POLL : Best goal of the group stages

no idea what's going to happen in this game

new thread title suggestions?

Shake das booty Franz, herr we go fighting them on the beaches in the 2nd motherfucking round of the 2010 World Cup

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WORLD CUP 2010 SECOND ROUND

maybe add Soccerball to the title to avoid confusion?

WORLD CUP 2010 SECOND ROUND