We now have a few vuvuzelas at the office, thanks to a guy who made the trip to South Africa. Those things really are terrifying! I'm pretty sure the whole building hates us.

Jumping Jack wrote on Jun 20^th, 2010 at 4:34am:

Actually Els is playing with Phil Mickelson today. Let's hope their are no vuvu's on the course and good luck to Phil.

Portugal 7 - 0 Korea DPR!!

This is old news, but I just found out, so it's NEWS to me!

Javier "El Chicharito" Hernandez is going to be playing for a British team called "Manchester United".  Apparently, it's a big thing.  The whole transaction cost £10 million British pounds!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntd-rNZ5mwA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxldtpijWb8&feature=related

Yay!

Where's the best football?

All the teams now have two matches completed, so far the best football is in Latin América, specially South America:

• Except for Honduras, all the Latin American teams are on top of their groups
• Except for the USA and Honduras all the American teams are on top of their groups
• All the South American teams are heading their groups
• Today all the latin countries won (Portugal 7-0, Chile 1-0 and Spain 2-0)

The problem with these group stage matches is that the strong countries face opponents that do no play to win. If a team gets through the wall of defenders early, chances are you'll see a decent match (see Portugal yesterday, Germany in the first round of matches) but if they don't you'll get games like Spain-Switzerland, Netherlands-Japan or Brazil-North Korea.

Results aside, I also see the difference between most of the European teams and those of South America. Somehow the Euro's look more tired. 

Teiz wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2010 at 5:14am:



how many of these players are coming right from other tournaments and very active leagues? I don't follow close enough to know... we just UEFA, BPL just ended not too long ago, Italians Leagues too... I know Argentina just wrapped up a season... is it possible some players are just not rested and also not used to these teamates...? and others are just tight and have jeeled with their teams...

Every major league ended a few weeks before the championships started. Especially the players of Inter and Bayern Munchen should be worn out: they played their national league, national cup and Uefa Champions League til the finals..thing is: most of the South American stars play in the big leagues (England, Spain, Italy) so they should be just as tired.

So there must be some differences in the way the teams fill their days...

Teiz wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2010 at 8:20am:



some of the big stars, think they are coachs, really messing up the teams... so much drama with that french player leaving his team...

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2010 at 8:26am:


Certainly not the wealthiest anymore, Gerardo - £1 billion in debt thanks to their American owners using them to finance the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Not even the richest in England either since Roman Abramovich bought over Chelsea a few years ago..or even the richest in Manchester, as Manchester City would be the richest now since being bought by a Dubai sheikh a couple of years back.

Real Madrid and Barcelona would be the only clubs who could really be 'bigger' than United though (although United have a bigger following worldwide and would be the most recognisable club name/brand in world sport). Real Madrid would certainly be the most successful club side in the world, however (9 European Cup wins). Liverpool and Manchester united both have 18 league title wins in England (even though Liverpool have been shit for 20 years), but Liverpool are 5-3 ahead in European Cup wins.

Mexico is gonna play their last match this Sunday, I don't see how we can beat Argentina



I hope the final to be Argentina - Uruguay so at least we will be able to say "Well, we lost against the champion and subchampion"

Well, Mexico have won several times to Argentina, including "Copa América" the strategy is gonna give Diego adultered yeyo