Ghana v USA (Group G) Monday 16th June 2014

[J Ed]

Great game so far

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I dunno why but the thought of pulling a hamstring really makes me wince. It's basically just pulling a muscle isn't it?

It is, but one of a handful of tendons that do a lot of load-bearing and distribution stuff for your structure. Hurts like fuck tbh

 

[Favelado]

Can savage sing the Welsh anthem in the original?

The fucking Queen. If you're not a servile boot-licker - you're not allowed in the England team then.

 

[juice_terry]

Ouch I felt that

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Great game so far

US World Cup games always seem to be entertaining for some reason

 

[poului]

Shut the fuck up Savage.

 

[Wilf]

Robbie Savage is adding a great deal to my enjoyment of this match. Insight after insight after insight...

 

[Doctor Carrot]

It is, but one of a handful of tendons that do a lot of load-bearing and distribution stuff for your structure. Hurts like fuck tbh

Good to know my wincing is not displaced then

 

[JimW]

Robbie Savage is adding a great deal to my enjoyment of this match. Insight after insight after insight...

I particularly appreciated "you won't score from there" followed by a discussion of the various players over the years who had

 

[twistedAM]

Had almost forgotten about DaMarcus Beasley. Seems ages ago since he played for City and he was already an established international by then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaMarcus_Beasley

 

[editor]

Come on Ghana!

 

[J Ed]

I particularly appreciated "you won't score from there" followed by a discussion of the various players over the years who had

The commentating has been shit generally.

Also I think I have heard Porto Alegre called Porto Alegro Porto Alegra and Porto Alegran by commentators all during the past 3 days, what is so hard about the name of the place?!

 

[Lea]

I'm watching on me own in the office. Doesn't seem to be a lot of interest here. Half of LA are down at the LA Kings (ice hockey) Stanley Cup victory parade downtown. Meh.

Why is it that North Americans aren't into football but only seem interested in their own sports like baseball and American football?

 

[editor]

The American strip looks like pyjamas. Nice ones, mind.

 

[JimW]

Sailing close to pepe land

 

[skyscraper101]

Why is it that North Americans aren't into football but only seem interested in their own sports like baseball and American football?

Probably the same reason the Europeans are relatively uninterested in American Sports. Culture, coverage, no particular domestic appetite for the other's game? TBF I think Football has come on leaps and bounds in the USA if you compare it with the state it was in just 20 years ago. The women's game is probably bigger here than in any other country and the men's game has not been unaided by mounting cases of brain injury through American Football - particularly among parents/youths.

 

[Balbi]

Sulley the Munt just about stays in control

 

[Wilf]

"That's a fantastic tackle... oh, its a foul"

Garry Neville must have nightmares that he wakes up after a night of restless dreams and has become Robbie Savage.

 

[editor]

Mega fluff.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Probably the same reason the Europeans are relatively uninterested in American Sports. Culture, coverage, no particular domestic appetite for the other's game? TBF I think Football has come on leaps and bounds in the USA if you compare it with the state it was in just 20 years ago. The women's game is probably bigger here than in any other country.

Yeah it's the same reason no one gives a flying fuck about Aussie rules football anywhere but Australia. In fact it's so pony over here that I know a bloke who represented England in an Aussie rules match, England ffs and he's a short, pot bellied bloke who works in a warehouse. I can't even remember who England played but I know about 17 people turned up to watch it .

 

[skyscraper101]

Yeah it's the same reason no one gives a flying fuck about Aussie rules football anywhere but Australia. In fact it's so pony over here that I know a bloke who represented England in an Aussie rules match, England ffs and he's a short, pot bellied bloke who works in a warehouse. I can't even remember who England played but I know about 17 people turned up to watch it .

I like the refs who look like they should be working on the fish counter in Waitrose.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

I like the refs who look like they should be working on the fish counter in Waitrose.

Yeah I like players who look like that too. I've always thought Messi wouldn't look out of place working down the local chippy.

If he wore a long white uniform and wasn't an international footballer of course!

 

[smmudge]

I like Thierry Henry. He's quick witted and funny and has a nice accent and is quite dreamy looking.

 

[butchersapron]

Yeah I like players who look like that too. I've always thought Messi wouldn't look out of place working down the local chippy.

If he wore a long white uniform and wasn't an international footballer of course!

His hairs too greasy for that.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Or

His hairs too greasy for that.

Haha do you know what I mean though? You get players who just wouldn't look out of place doing various manual labour. Robben, I've always thought, would be quite suited to whistling away on a scaffold fitting some windows.

 

[Wilf]

Haha do you know what I mean though? You get players who just wouldn't look out of place doing various manual labour. .

They are!

 

[butchersapron]

Haha do you know what I mean though? You get players who just wouldn't look out of place doing various manual labour. Robben, I've always thought, would be quite suited to whistling away on a scaffold fitting some windows.

I could easily imagine him as a particularly hardline traffic warden.

 

[rekil]

US commentators call halftime "the 180".

 

[Wilf]

I feel an 'if they weren't footballers' thread coming on.

 

[Wilf]

Anyway, can you all stfu - Robbie's back.