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Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:34:53
Holy shit, the germans are having their way with the argies. 
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Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:51:17
Deustchland über alles. Holy shit what a performance.
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Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:07:00
I caught the game at the 50th minute. It looked like Argentina was controlling the ball well, they were on the attack I felt they would tie it soon. Then the second goal happened, which had amazing passing. Then it was a meltdown, Argentina's defense was pure crap. Impressive performance by Germany.
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Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:52:45
The last few minutes with the two/three penalty kicks were AMAZING. That is why I love sports, stuff like that happens.
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Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:10:26

gamingeek said:

Why does Tevez have this like  chicken skin neck? It looks like someone has slashed his throat and its healed over.

Burn from boiling water.

We now no longer have the worst result against Germany: we had 10 players for 2 of their goals! Nyaa

Thank you Maradona!

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Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:34:32

Foolz said:

gamingeek said:

Why does Tevez have this like  chicken skin neck? It looks like someone has slashed his throat and its healed over.

Burn from boiling water.

We now no longer have the worst result against Germany: we had 10 players for 2 of their goals! Nyaa

Thank you Maradona!

4 -0 to Germany. At least in the England game we scored twice.

Dvader said:
The last few minutes with the two/three penalty kicks were AMAZING. That is why I love sports, stuff like that happens.

That was some crazy shit. End to end penalties, scoring one, retaking and missing. YES!

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Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:11:56

Okay after the Dutch game against Brazil, I went around Rotterdam watching some of the celebrations. Eventually I found the place were the were going to start de Tour de France. The next day I watched the prologue in person and made these pictures

The Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam and the crowds

And of course I took a picture of one bicyclist 

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Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:43:05
My money would be on the car.

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Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:42:52

Spain played such beautiful football. Fuck the haters, they wish they had such an awesome team.

Like watching a Matador.

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Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:34:27
Good match by both teams. Spain completely dominated midfield, knowing that was paramount to impede Germany's lightning-fast buildups, in the end, it paid off and showed how much of a difference can it make to have a backbone as solid as the spanish midfield.

Germany put up a good fight, but they were never able to get past the overwhelming pressure exerted by the spanish midfield.

New champion come sunday? Both teams have done enough merits to finally ascend to the olympus. That sacred place where very few teams are. This sunday, another one will join them in glory.

Best of luck for both Spain and Netherlands!
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Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:37:05

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Good match by both teams. Spain completely dominated midfield, knowing that was paramount to impede Germany's lightning-fast buildups, in the end, it paid off and showed how much of a difference can it make to have a backbone as solid as the spanish midfield.

Germany put up a good fight, but they were never able to get past the overwhelming pressure exerted by the spanish midfield.

New champion come sunday? Both teams have done enough merits to finally ascend to the olympus. That sacred place where very few teams are. This sunday, another one will join them in glory.

Best of luck for both Spain and Netherlands!

 Yeah, we will have a new WC champion. Spain is definitely the favorite though, but then again so was Brazil. 

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Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:02:35
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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:03:38


If you are wondering, this is after the European Cup 2008 finals

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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:57:49
Hup Nederland!

Make Crag Fister cry.
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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:36:39

Iga_Bobovic said:


If you are wondering, this is after the European Cup 2008 finals

LOL

Death by a 1000 passes, part 2!

So awesome. Well done Spain, you are my heroes.

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Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:40:59
Congrats to Spain, they deserve it. Happy

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Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:53:28
Alright, so here is the outsiders perspective.

All in all I think the World Cup was great for South Africa.  They'll make the money back in future business development and tourism.  From the news accounts, it seems like the locals unified around the event as well.

For the sport, I think it was a step back (again this is from the outsiders perspective).  The officiating made it look less of a sport of skill and chance and more of a flawed process where the better team has a 60-40 chance of prevailing depending on who is calling the match.

There were also so many extra-time matches -- which made the game seem less than well designed.

If you wish to return stones in my direction my favorite sports are, in order, MLB, AFL, NBA and NHL.  And yes, I was rooting for the Dutch ('cause as I've learned on this site, if it ain't Dutch, it ain't much).
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Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:58:29
There's nothing wrong with extra time and penalties. As Iga would say: fuck the haters. Nyaa

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Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:01:13
^Hey, that's fair man. Just letting you know what it looks like from out here.  But then, you've probably heard it all before.

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