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It takes 10 years for you to get football broadcasts where you are? :confused2

Damn

Do you have one of her getting doggystyled with her head in a toilet?

Amazing, given that Ricardo was a second stringer on Sporting Lisbon before struggling to earn the top spot in the second half of the Portuguese Superliga season. His problem: making crazy decisions like when to punch the ball when he should catch, when to come out of goal when he should stay...

Hard to say. Lippi thought it (from an interview I read). And one play-by-play broadcast of the PKs suspected it also when Trez missed.

Nah. Jimmy Buffon runs a numbers racket down in Florida. :smoke:

Lippi made a case that Buffon played a role in Trez's miss. Perhaps he originally guessed right and threw him off so he had to hit it in another spot at the last moment, allowing his shot to be off a little. Either way, talk about a game of inches. Gigi earned his props on that save on Zizou's...

Not to mention that he committed one way where every French PK kicker went the other way on him. Ouch! The crossbar played a big role in this one... whew!

OK, Sebi -- I finally ripped it and uploaded it to YouTube. Here's you and me as a couple of Mission homies after the France-Portugal semi-final. :D (Sebi is the one in the glasses.)

But let's not kid ourselves either about DP. Several minutes before his goal, which was just icing after Grosso's, DP had an open shot on Lehman and he shot it wide, wide left ... when that could have been a clutch game winner.

:agree: Though I suppose if it was Zlatan in there, the ball would have been shot to Mars both times. :)

Portugal is a diving team. But then, Nedved isn't known for his vertical stability either... so it all depends on who you're willing to give slack to, and who not. I'd argue that France (namely, Henry) has gone further on dives than most other teams have in this WC. But because of their...

Portugal would have been massacred by the media if they got the same call for the same play on the other end of the pitch. They would have been called "cheating bastards" 'til kingdom come -- far beyond what they've been called here already. No question. There is a double standard here.

This reminds me of that awesome WC TV commercial in Spanish for some phone service provider. Two guys are watching a match on the couch, and one is like, "¡Fue penal!" and the other says, "¡No fue penal!" And then they later show one guy getting an SMS while in the movie theater: "¡Fue penal!"...

To Klose's credit, he did get the equalizer against arguably one of the best sides in the tournament. But agreed about Ballack. Not a poor performance, but neither a memorable one either. Particularly one worthy of merit.

The Xavier penalty was legit. Today's was begging. And worst of all -- it left the game up to a referee decision without any real initiative from the winner. Lame. Italy should be handled the trophy and the whole bracket with France-Portugal-England-Brazil should be sent to detention.

Same here.

I was watching yesterday's Italy-Germany game at about a 5 minute delay on my PVR due to some poorly timed but necessary bathroom breaks. In the 115th minute my phone rings, and I knew to turn up the TV volume and let the answering machine pick up. Even so, they kind of blew it in that I knew...

Where to start? Ricardo, Valente, Figo, Carvalho, and Maniche. Damn that I am at work and have to watch the taped game at home. I will disappear from these forums like Cinderella in a couple of hours to enter my self-imposed media blackout a la Juve. :(

As one independent viewpoint here, I agree with these sentiments. The reason why English-language announcers annoy me so much is their tendency to treat the England NT and the EPL as if this is still 1912 and they're God's gift to the sport. I don't mind loyalties to club and country and all...