It’s time for me to take the ARG flag down and put it away for 4 years. The neighbours will be happy. Heidi too.
Congratulations to GER, and to Jim T and Sayaka T who rose to the top and snatched 1st and 2nd place. Read the rest of this entry »
Nice short piece on the US experience at the Brazil World Cup.
Alternate moral: We are all Germans now.
I like Spanish because it uses upside down punctuation marks.
ARG recruits some serious backup for the final
World Cups are uncompromising, brutal, emotional affairs that invariably end in heartbreak for all but a few. But that’s why we love them.
Gary Lineker, OBE (English former footballer and current sports broadcaster)
Did I really say that this was getting tedious? Wrong!
BRA self-immolating was completely unexpected, even if it was fairly clear that they were not a match for GER. A day later, NED and ARG seemed perfectly matched, but NED crumpled on penalty kicks. The FIFA Organizing Committee clearly knows how to write the script for excitement, and the ARG flag stays up outside my house till the end (much to the chagrin of some of my friends and neighbours). Read the rest of this entry »
Everything you really need to know about the 4 semi-finalists (Taken from The Onion):
Don’t know about you, but this was the most tedious set of quarter-final games I could have imagined. It would have been way more fun to watch CHI, MEX, USA and ALG play off against each other.
The pool standings haven’t changed much with Blair C and Sherman H still leading the pack. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s a nice overview of why the World Cup, specifically this World Cup, is so engaging.
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Below are the leaders after the end of all Round of 16 games. We still have a tie for 1st. Read the rest of this entry »
The Beautiful Pool 