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Permalink Reply by Peter Thomas on May 8, 2010 at 3:57am

I'll be following my team England. So we'll be in the same group. I always get over optimistic when it comes to England. By the way you should really try to banish the "S" word from your vocabulary, it is Football to everyone else;-)

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Permalink Reply by Adam Childress on May 8, 2010 at 9:50am

For the most part I do not use the S word, but I figured alot of people on here were American and used it to limit confusion. In my mind there is only one true football and the origin of the word soccer just makes me hate it that much more.

Why is John Terry the captain? I cant stand that guy, I am from Detroit and the best captain we ever had was Steve Yzerman and I think Steven Gerrard is right up there with him.

I think we will both make out out of the group stages and if England can pull it together they could put 66 behind um.

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Permalink Reply by elaine kilshaw on May 10, 2010 at 1:52pm

I am a lioverpool football fan. Steve Gerrard is the greatest.

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Permalink Reply by elaine kilshaw on May 10, 2010 at 10:48am

I support England also but I do hope in this World CUp the players of all teams will please refrain from thinking that their god is watching them as they do the sign of the cross and look up to the sky, before coming on or scoring a goal..
Any comments about this?

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on May 10, 2010 at 3:16pm

That's just for show. Most of these players are their own gods in their eyes.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on May 10, 2010 at 3:14pm

Deutschland! See you in the round of 16?

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on June 17, 2010 at 3:12pm

Let's hope that Jesus can save souls better than the Australian keeper saves goals.

source link (ESPN soccernet)

JOHANNESBURG -- Police say a South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family in the northeastern part of the country.
David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from the small village of Makweya, Limpopo province, fought with his wife and two children for the remote control on Sunday because he wanted to watch Germany play Australia in the World Cup. The others, however, wanted to watch a gospel show.

"He said, 'No, I want to watch soccer,'" police spokesman Mothemane Malefo said Thursday. "That is when the argument came about.

"In that argument, they started assaulting him."

Malefo said Makoeya got up to change the channel by hand after being refused the remote control and was attacked by his 68-year-old wife Francina and two children, 36-year-old son Collin and 23-year-old daughter Lebogang.

Malefo said he was not sure what the family used to kill Makoeya.

"It appears they banged his head against the wall," Malefo said. "They phoned the police only after he was badly injured, but by the time the police arrived the man was already dead."

All three were arrested Sunday night, but Lebogang was released on $200 bail Tuesday, Malefo said. The other two are still being held in custody.

Malefo said the mother and son will reappear in the local Seshego Magistrates Court on July 27.

"He was always a happy man, never violent," Makoeya's nieces, Miriam and Anna, told the Daily Sun newspaper. "On Saturday, we saw him the last time at a funeral."

The World Cup, being played in Africa for the first time, started Friday and runs through July 11.

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Permalink Reply by Matt on June 17, 2010 at 4:18pm

We Americans had it right the first time when we just ignored the sport.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on June 17, 2010 at 4:26pm

Ignored it the first time? US came in third in the first World Cup back in 1930 if I'm not mistaken.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on June 18, 2010 at 12:04am

Normally I make fun of the US soccer team (less to do with the team and more to do with the country). At some point I looked up their best World Cup result, and that tid bit stuck in my memory. Still, I thought their form was decent against England. I'm sure many people will credit the draw to sloppy playing from England, which is somewhat true, but I don't think that would be totally fair here.

Now if we're talking Women's World Cup, that's a different story.

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Permalink Reply by Prazzie on June 17, 2010 at 4:40pm

Whew, the atmosphere here is crazy! My city is one of the host cities, but the weather's been a bit foul. As a South African, I was horribly depressed by Bafana's display last night (4-0!). I'm not a particularly patriotic person, but I've divided my loyalties according to the languages I speak. Unfortunately France lost against Mexico this evening, so I might have to change my methods.

In South Africa, we mainly call it soccer ("sokker" in my first language). I see a lot of people insisting that it's "football" and not soccer, but really, it's not that serious. "Soccer" is perfectly acceptable over here.

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Permalink Reply by Prazzie on June 17, 2010 at 5:15pm

Thanks for the correction! I was convinced that it was more horrible than it really was, but now that you mentioned it, I remember thinking that at least we didn't get our butts kicked as badly as Australia by Germany. But oh man, it was awful to watch.

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