February 7, 2008 – 2:07 pm
Okay, so it was against a national team ranked 80+ places below them, but Korea put on a good show last night, especially in the second half, to get their 2010 South Africa World Cup qualifying campaign off to a good start.
Turkmenistan were never going to trouble Korea and it showed from the start as the [...]
Well, this is another football post in the midst of all the other, perhaps more important, issues. I do have interests that don’t involve “the beautiful game”, that actually involve what might be considered more serious topics, but those interests would most likely be of no interest to the Marmot’s gang.
Anyhow, the Korean Football Association is [...]
The World Cup is over and, as I struggle to resume a “normal” sleeping pattern again, here are one man’s subjective thoughts about the month-long footie-fest:
the winners: Italy may be antagonistic, diving, whingeing jackasses, but I honestly feel they are worthy victors. They survived what turned out to be the Group of Death (each of the [...]
“However, I just don’t think Zizou is going to allow France to lose.”
Could I be any worse of a footie writer? Honestly, how did you guys manage to put up with my dross for the past month? I couldn’t have fared worse in analysing and predicting matches if I’d sat out in a pasture, surrounded [...]
Now that the appetising farce of the 3rd-place game is gone (won by Germany, 3-1, in a fabulous display of entertaining football by both the hosts and Portugal), we can all concentrate on the main course–and you have a choice: Italian cuisine or French cuisine.
Based on the inspired performances of both nations, especially since the elimination rounds [...]
Well, in matters both related and unrelated to football, this morning’s advent of dawn here on the peninsula was less eventful than was yesterday’s. There was no craning of necks here in the Cave of Dissidence looking skyward for migrating birds, only intent gazing at the TV set to witness the settling of Italy’s opponent in the finale at [...]
Last night’s proceedings were a spectacle to behold and I expect tonight’s to be the same.
I am talking about World Cup footie, in case you’ve lost sight, while ducking your heads to avoid recent low-flying birds of a different feather, of other endeavours still, er, endeavouring here on Earth.
Portugal v. France:
As with the first semifinal, [...]
While sitting in my fallout shelter here on the northeast coast of South Korea, listening to North Korean missiles splash down in the East Sea just outside the window of my flat, I bravely held my nerve and got down to the business of watching a World Cup semifinal match. Here’s what I saw:
Germany 0-2 Italy:
Let’s be [...]
The 2006 World Cup is down to four nations and three meaningful fixtures left (I refuse to count the abhorrently meaningless “3rd-place” match that’s played the night before the final; can anyone honestly remember ANY of the 3rd-place finishers from the past 20 years? Does anyone really care about this meaningless match? It’s [...]
the following have now become official, if they hadn’t been already:
when it comes to predicting this world cup, i suck like a contestant at the world cup of fellatio.
wayne rooney can be suckered into putting a huge dent in his team’s chances to win.
cristiano ronaldo is such a pretty-boy, pansy-assed, gutless wanker drama queen that i can’t even [...]
What will day 2 of this year’s World Cup quarterfinals provide for us? Yesterday’s fixtures were a mixed bag: a riveting, nerve-racking penalty shootout in the first match and an absolute bludgeoning in the second one. How will tonight’s fixtures prevail? Will they bore us to tears? Will our nerves be [...]
Let’s just get something straight right off the bat:
I am a neither a fan of Germany, Argentina, Italy, or Ukraine. Though I do drink Beck’s beer, buy Patagonia outdoor clothing, eat pizza, and drink vodka (and, yes, it is known as vodka in all of the former soviet outposts, including the likes of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, [...]
for those of you still interested in that “minor” sporting event going on “over there” in germany, let’s look at the tonight’s two quarterfinal matchups as i hope the symptoms of my two-day football withdrawal don’t get worse before kickoff tonight at 11:59.
germany v. argentina: from a neutral standpoint, this is, in my opinion, the [...]
last night was, seemingly, the first time in two weeks that there was little or no refereeing controversy in either of the matches, although there was another red card in the brasil-ghana match and a blatant offside missed on brasil’s second goal. finally, the focus in the aftermath is on the footie, not the [...]
it’s been well-documented here at the marmot’s hole how so obvious it is that FIFA are waging its conspiracy campaign against korea, koreans, korean culture, the korean language, korean way of life, kimchee, soju, scientist woo-suk hwang, and, soon, long-time national hero, admiral sun-shin yi. however, before FIFA get their chance to smear admiral yi, they have [...]
well, some of you readers here at the marmot’s hole may be surprised that there is still football being played, but, since it’s called the world cup, and there are still 16 nations represented in the tournament, FIFA voted not to discontinue the world cup when korea crashed out early yesterday, although it would surely [...]
well, for most of the 48 million people on the peninsula who live south of the 38th parallel, the 2006 world cup is effectively over, for there will no korean side–in fact, no asian one, either–in the knockout rounds after they went down, 2-0, to switzerland in the final match of the group stages.
in the pub where [...]
if you didn’t stay up until 6am this morning to watch the late fixtures, you missed perhaps the best match of the tournament in croatia v. australia. and with brasil getting a wake-up call a half-hour into their match with japan before getting juiced, it made for an exciting two hours of football.
japan v. brasil: japan [...]
well, tonight’s first fixtures have ended and it’s czech republic 0-2 italy and ghana 2-1 usa. italy win the group on 7 points and ghana finish as runners-up on 6 points.
a disappointing world cup campaign for both the czechs and the americans, but africa finally have a team through to the next round in ghana. [...]
what’s with the major television broadcasters’ (KBS1, KBS2, MBC, and SBS) showing only one–that is, the same–match during these current simultaneous fixtures, especially during the 11pm time slot?
i noticed on tuesday night that MBC, KBS2, and SBS all only showed one 11pm fixture (germany-ecuador) live, while KBS1 broadcast the costa rica-poland match on tape-delay at 1:30am. same [...]
