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Forlan yday has been the best dead-ball treatment yet in a single match. (i think.) computer_rock definitely making sense ^ re Spain.

good points to ponder Hucks, and teams that do want to attack them may well go wide (where they are better offensively than the Brazilians or Spaniards), and then we have an attacking feast when the compact Spaniards or Bra can do their thing. from an England pov i want J Cole and Lennon roaming...

that's a spectacularly simple-minded post from me above, in hindsight! teams have to cross the ball! really? thank you scott! :D

context of the above rant is that i do quite like Japan (i like all three Asian teams and wish them well) but i have had a real soft spot for Cameroon since 90 (my 'first' WC) and so am pretty much a fan, also my man Luka got fam

from the handful of matches so far where it is quite obviously attack versus defence (as opposed to some games which have been more defence v defence!) defending teams are having some success by keeping out attacking teams simply by pushing them wide and trusting they can deal w crosses, w a...

super clip Vim! my god, when Bill O'Reilly is making contextualised and sensible, big-picture points against you, you know you're a remedial class goon...

nicely summarised Rich. Senderos, Loefah, lol really amused by what Routes said about Linker ^ three potential pivots today, not least Nigeria in Group B, who really need to go for it, to perhaps set up what could be an epic tie against S Korea next. they will know what SK and Arg have done...

saw a Genoa derby once (well, seen more than one, but you know what i mean) and they had to delay it by about half an hour to let flare smoke clear.

poor SA. horribly limited and when Forlan is purring, one of the best strikers of a ball on earth. his space for the first was similar to an Ivorian cock-up yday when Ronaldo made something tidy for himself and then stung the left-hand woodwork. Josephs' throw out on 85, very muscular...

this would explain why there are so many of them in Europe, they obviously have a thing for great theatre.

ooh Salas and Zamorano, mouth-watering. well, unless Suisse have radically changed in two years (i didn't pay attention to their matches in qualification) i'll certainly be hoping Chile break them down (sure they probably can), they well deserve a berth after that. ah yes. i am rather hoping...

yeah. looks like it's Heskey again. just read that the N Korean state broadcaster is showing games, but a day later, and that some Asia-Pacific TV company gave them the Brazil game. no doubt the interludes (i don't suppose they have ad breaks) are full of the dangers of capitalism. go Chile!

do you think Capello will stick w the same formation against Algeria? OK Barry looks like a shoo-in, but perhaps the same formation then? 4-2-3-1 is surely the way forward when it's on the line.

citing a murder in the same breath as a bit of uninformed rabble-rousing over the airwaves might sound like i'm breaking some sort of Godwin's law for media studies, but i'll leave that post up, FWIW.

tbc, the UK being one of the few govts to keep open borders during that big enlargement round a few years ago of course wasn't the country being hard on migrants per se, but, i mean, because until fairly recently the middle-brow tabs still appeared to have trouble understanding the difference...

they are quality, long tradition for the Saffas, people must just suck it up, end of.

i wuv you too Cracker :) i am afraid haven't the foggiest re Mail. Express, AFAICT, avoids them, or condemns street violence in passing but doesn't go in to things. the latter are clearly in a bind. as you may know, they loudly condemned the BNP pre-election, though everyone else could see...

thank you for pointing that out. i am aware my bitter Manc reputation precedes me, so i don't want to publicly call him out on his United love-in as it looks so biased. but he just is, isn't he? he actually likes both the big northwest two, although given Liverpool have generally been on...

tho apologies for clogging up the thread w my usual needlessly wanky political wankings

bravo the All-Whites! cracking to get that that late against a decent team, speaks well of their character i suppose (though i didn't see the match). happy, Luka? i take it those kiwis that have a sense of the world (as opposed to the ones that are parochial num nuts) are pleased that NZ is...