Cameroon were doomed before the Tournament even started, what with playing in a strong group when not fielding one of their strongest teams.. In actuality ALL the African teams have been struggling, it seems the luster of playing IN Africa in 2010 carried the African teams a lot father then maybe they should have.

That being said, I hope Ivory Coast advances, respect to Ghana but I think Ivory Coast is a team with more potential, raw talent wise.

Not against Uruguay he wasn't, or Italy

108 goals so far, there might be more goals scored in just the group stage than the whole of South Africa. Today was great, loved Mexico their clash with Holland should be interesting. Really like their coach he seems absolutely nuts.

Prediction for tomorrow

Uruguay 2-1 Italy
England 2-2 Costa Rica
Ivory Coast 2-0 Greece
Colombia 3-1 Japan

points today:
ramos 9
oscar 7
fred 10

i had ramos as captain but switched for oscar. doh!

now i switched again for chiellini for captain tomorrow. or should i do buffon?

(i don't think he'll have a clean sheet but he's bound to have a lot of saves)

I'll give you that. I admit that Ashley Col would never have that the cross for Italy's second goal get to that point. HOWEVER, was Baines' pressing further up because of Hodgson telling him to do so.
Baines always pressed pretty high up at Everton, but not to the point where they conceded silly goals.

Anyhoo it'll be interesting to see how Luke Shaw does in his place tonight.

oh, balotelli, you dumb dumbshit!

this is the more boring 45 minutes of futbol I've watched.. IN YEARS!!

The ref is NOT letting Italy play meanwhile Uruguay simply doesn't want to score even while the refs are doing everything the can to gift wrap this one for them! Oh yeah, its an epic flop battle like I've never seen..

Maybe it won't take a superstar player to break football in the USA, but a manager as GIF-friendly as Herrera





A coach suchfriends can finally relate to

I was going to support England tonight because I liked their performances against Italy and Uruguay and felt they could've gotten more, but I just had a look at how the knock-out schedule is shaping up and decided that Costa Rica needs to win that group:

likely 1/8 finals:

1. Brazil vs Chile
2. Colombia vs Italy/Uruguay
3. France vs Nigeria
4. Germany vs Algeria

5. Netherlands vs Mexico
6. Costa Rica vs Cote d'Ivoire
7. Argentina vs Switzerland/Ecuador
8. Belgium vs USA


The teams from games 1-4 can't meet the teams from games 5-8 until the final. Of course, there are no small teams anymore, etc blabla yadda yadda, but which side of that knock-out schedule would you rather be in?

Or to put it differently: if Argentina don't go all the way in that schedule then one of the finalists will be a massive surprise.

(vamos Costa Rica!)

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to demonrail666 again.

At least the USA coaching has some choreography ;)

The Good..

An Argentina-Netherlands semi final seems nailed on but, while Netherlands have been a bit up and down, they've still looked better than Argentina so far.

Hahahaha. I didn't see that. QED

The Bad

Touchdoooooown!!!!"

"fuuuumble"

And The Ugly

Sorry, would've used basketball terms but I don't know any

red card for marchisio? holy mother of triple fucks!!!


oh he got caught rubbing the studs. good ref. wtf italy.

right in front of the ref lol.