Comments on: world cup: nonlinear thoughts, germany roll, & argentina win classic

By: sewing

sewing — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:22:37 +0000

…And I saw the Argentina-Mexico game. That Argentine goal was a beaut. Couldn’t help noticing, too, that whenever a player on either side went down, he just rolled over and got straight back up. No diving theatrics at all.

By: sewing

sewing — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:21:18 +0000

Dave, you raise a good point re the defense. I’ll admit I didn’t pay too much attention to the defense either, but I sure as hell noticed the lack of a defense when that second Swiss goal was scored. The Korean team claims that they stopped playing when the offside flag was raised, but Lee Won-jae didn’t stop playing! He was valiantly trying his best to save, and in fact he succeeded in stopping the first shot on goal, but he was on his own, trying in vain as he scrambled unsuccessfully to stop the second shot. Where was the defense? They were utterly absent–at any rate, they were nowhere near the camera.

And if your defense is rock solid, then it doesn’t matter how crappy your offense is; if your team stops every goal, you are guaranteed to win or at least tie every single game. (Then again, I recall that the Germany-Argentina final in Italy 1990 is widely regarded as one of the most boring on record since it was all defense and decided only on penalty kicks, right?)

But to be fair, isn’t it true in practically any goal-scoring sport that it’s the star forwards who capture all the attention? Whether it’s the guy or gal who scores the goal or touchdown or slam dunk, the forwards get all the glory.

By: Sperwer

Sperwer — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:14:08 +0000

At the break of the red dawn, we yelled together “Dae Han Min Guk,” the name of our country that rarely served our needs or pleasure. In the daybreak, our dream of the second round was shattered and our red souls were scorched black. We are left with little to entertain ourselves. How can we stand the pain surfacing from our broken hearts?

Did I miss the second coming of Saigo Takemori and the Satsuma wei-nom this past weekend, or did the writer forget to take his meds?

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:36:36 +0000

That is classic.

By: gbevers

gbevers — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:10:46 +0000

The following is a link to one of the silliest articles I have read in a long time:

http://english.donga.com/srv/s.....6062636858

By: Curzon

Curzon — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:12:32 +0000

Dissident Dave needs to learn how to write the English language. Capitalizations please! (Also, every paragraph doesn’t need to begin with “Well, …”)

By: gbevers

gbevers — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:02:21 +0000

Some corrections to the above message:

“If anyone is interested…, you might want to check out…”

By: gbevers

gbevers — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:59:20 +0000

If anyone interested in getting all the gory details of how Korea got screwed in the World Cup, you might what to check out MBC TV’s “Current Events Magazine 2580″ tonight (Sunday) at 10:45.

By the way, at about 2:30 this afternoon on KBS 2 TV, I thought I overheard the commentators of the “World Cup Plus” program blame Argentine referees for the Korean War, but I cannot be sure because I was busy washing dishes at the time.

By: yankeesfan_77

yankeesfan_77 — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:03:21 +0000

Good question, I do know they would have to field a new team 4 years later since KJI would send all the players to the gulag.

Happened in ‘66. Ok, well to be fair, all of them except for 1 guy.

By: captbbq

captbbq — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:02:03 +0000

So if this is what happens when South Korea bears the brunt of a bad call, what would happen if it were North Korea that represented the penninsula? Mass kidnappings of FIFA officials? Assassinations? Taepo-dong 2 headed towards Switzerland?