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Not sure how much blogging there will be these next few days as I'm off to Washington to a) attend a wedding, b) catch up with old friends and c) watch a lot of football. Granted c) could be accomplished here too. Nevertheless, consider this an open thread for, well, anything you like but perhaps especially the World Cup and Saturday's game between England and the United States...
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David Crawford
June 10th, 2010 8:49am Report this commentConcerning England versus USA, I hope no in England feels very comfortable or confident prior to this game. You shouldn't.
One, you have crap goalkeepers, the US has a great one.
Two, your best player, Wayne Rooney, will get his ghetto ass tossed out of the game. The US has already said that they will get that bone-brain to fuck up and lose it.
Three, the US has always played hard every minute of every game. And yes, effort can defeat talent. You've seen it, I've seen it, last year the US defeated Spain on effort. Enough said.
Four, this is the 8th best team in the world versus the 14th best team in the world. This isn't Andorra you're playing. (England 2 - Andorra 0, remember).
Enjoy the game.
paulg
June 10th, 2010 11:54am Report this commentDavid Crawford you are completely deluded the English team is made up of supermen who will crush these pansies who learned the game playing against girls.
The thrashing England will give them be as brutal and as comprehensive as the ones we give the Scots on a regular basis.
Unfortunately for the USA this will no doubt render them as congenitally dysfunctional as the Scots in being to kick a ball properly, for the rest of the tournament.
Whilst England will march on to our historic right to be at the pinnacle of World football again: this time this won’t be a tournament it will be a procession
England expects and these Englishmen will deliver.
Kennybhoy
June 10th, 2010 3:35pm Report this commentMarine One?
Delusions of grandeur Maister Massie?
chris
June 10th, 2010 5:24pm Report this comment1950.
A. MacAulay
June 13th, 2010 9:31am Report this commentYes Mr Massie, is that you being flown onto the White House lawn?
And also, as a Scot, "God Bless America" for showing us what the English are really good at; being a puffed up, self important, believes in their own propaganda bunch of numpties. Green is in class of his own. I laughed and laughed. Even with 12 men on the field, Rooney doubling every position in the team, save goalkeeper, they fluffed it because America morally won it! Well done! Now if only our rabble were able to learn a leasson!
HTMLNag
June 22nd, 2010 1:57am Report this commentMinor quibble, but you might want to consider re-sizing your inline images (with link to original as appropriate), when you have a 12-million pixel 2.9 MB jpeg -- Doesn't do your page-load times any favours.
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