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

[Zapp Brannigan]

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

Cristiano Ronaldo - curator of the Cristiano Ronaldo museum. He'd still have one.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

US commentators call halftime "the 180".

I like to think that when Dempsey got booted in the face somewhere an American commentator went 'oh my word he's been busted open here' in a real WWE wrestling style of delivery.

 

[Wilf]

Peter Schmichael - crap henchman.

 

[Wilf]

I like to think that when Dempsey got booted in the face somewhere an American commentator went 'oh my word he's been busted open here' in a real WWE wrestling style of delivery.

Bring on the metal folding chair!

 

[Lea]

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.

Not quite the same. Football is massive in other American countries as well as around the whole world. I would compare baseball to say cricket which is only really only played in some commonwealth countries. However, football seems to be the most popular sport around the world except in the USA.

 

[ska invita]

Ghana have a nice touch on the ball and the best kit

 

[editor]

Savage is like a drunken rambling pub bore.

 

[JimW]

Not quite the same. Football is massive in other American countries as well as around the whole world. I would compare baseball to say cricket which is only really only played in some commonwealth countries. However, football seems to be the most popular sport around the world except in the USA.

Doesn't cricket beat it in India, Bangladesh etc?

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Savage is like a drunken rambling pub bore.

Robbie Farage

 

[ska invita]

Savage is like a drunken rambling pub bore.

i want to know what shit tat he had to have removed

 

[Lo Siento.]

Not sure how Ghana are still down in this...

 

[editor]

Fuck's sake, Ghana. SCORE FFS!

 

[Wilf]

i want to know what shit tat he had to have removed

Craig Reville Horwood, in profile.

 

[smmudge]

Ghana have a nice touch on the ball and the best kit

I think they've had Iran's problem with shirts getting shrunk in the wash

 

[editor]

I'm really enjoying Ghana's style. Great team.

 

[Lea]

Doesn't cricket beat it in India, Bangladesh etc?

Yes you are right. I suppose cricket must have caught on in colonial times but not football.

I believe you live in china? I think football is very big in china even though they don't have good national team. However the Chinese seem to know all the names of the best players in the world. I also understand that a lot of people there are staying up in the early hours of the morning to watch this World Cup.

 

[ska invita]

I think they've had Iran's problem with shirts getting shrunk in the wash

the little patterened lining is class

 

[ska invita]

I'm really enjoying Ghana's style. Great team.

jsut let down on crosses a bit, but very deft everywhere else i think

 

[Lo Siento.]

I know football fans criticising people light years ahead of them in ability is standard from your couch/the stands/the pub but it still grates a bit when someone of Savage's ability is soooo critical as tv pundit

 

[JimW]

Yes you are right. I suppose cricket must have caught on in colonial times but not football.

I believe you live in china? I think football is very big in china even though they don't have good national team. However the Chinese seem to know all the names of the best players in the world. I also understand that a lot of people there are staying up in the early hours of the morning to watch this World Cup.

Yes, massive tho national side are a joke and league is bent. Not there at the moment but got piss-taking texts off all my mates after England lost so they stayed up at least

 

[Wilf]

Quite liked the slomo of Prince-Boateng's head-up sigh with the medusa dreads sliding across in the foreground.

 

[xslavearcx]

Was that usa fans singing st Pauli songs there?

 

[strung out]

i want to know what shit tat he had to have removed

He had an Armani tattoo, not sure if that's the one you mean?

 

[JimW]

You feel a US goal on the counter coming after all this Ghana profligacy

 

[smmudge]

the little patterened lining is class

Oh yeah that's a nice touch

 

[Dr. Furface]

Finally!

 

[JimW]

Lovely. Glad to be wrong

 

[r0bb0]

Goal

 

[editor]

Great goal and so well deserved.

 

[rekil]

Awesome soccerpoint.