last night’s fixtures didn’t offer too much drama. in the night’s first matches, portugal v. mexico and iran v. angola, the africans needed to win by more than one goal and a portugal win in order to advance to the next round.
in the second fixtures at 4am, korea time, holland v. argentina and cote d’ivoire v. serbinegro, there was [...]
after tonight’s matches, half of the round of 16 will be filled out and tonight’s offerings seem to have as little drama as last night’s did.
group c: cote d’ivoire v. serbinegro and holland v. argentina
cote d’ivoire and serbinegro are playing for nothing more than pride, especially the serbinegrans, who have massively disappointed in two matches. [...]
well, one-quarter of the round of 16 is set: germany v. sweden on saturday at 11:59pm and england v. ecuador on sunday night at 11:59pm.
germany, roared on by an intimidating sell-out crowd in berlin, looked back to being well in-form in their 0-3 rout of ecuador last night. two miroslav klose goals before intermission combined with a third by [...]
the all-lower case assault continues. avert your eyes if too weak to endure.
well, yesterday’s comments were lively, venomous, racist, xenophobic, sad, entertaining, and way off-subject. what is today’s encore?
yesterday’s play in the world cup went pretty much according to plan. switzerland took care of togo, 0-2, but not without some anxious moments (i know some [...]
the worst possible result, from a korean perspective, in this match has happened.
switzerland have just beaten togo, 0-2, which now puts the swiss on top of the table because of a greater goal difference than korea, +2 to +1. korea were hoping to face a switzerland squad with near-zero chance to advance, but, alas, that’s [...]
while sitting under some steps next to the cheonggye stream that meanders through the jongno district of seoul in hopes of catching a glimpse of the meaning of the universe from under a short skirt, here are some thoughts on last night’s this morning’s one and only match of consequence here on the peninsula:
on these world cup [...]
while koreans this morning (and all day, for sure) are celebrating their 1-1 “win” over france (any time a team scores a late equaliser, as korea did, doesn’t it always seem like that team “won” the game?), i’m going to continue my dogged pursuit of updating everyone on the world cup, so those of you [...]
amazing football in this one, to say the least. it may not have been the cleanest, most error-free, most concise, most ingenious football match ever, but, boy, was it entertaining. an own goal, three red cards, a goal disallowed on a dubious offsides (i’ll elaborate in a moment), some decent goalkeeper saves, a [...]
after last night’s draw with mexico, angola might have believed they were carrying the hopes of a nation and a continent on their backs, but that was pretty much dispelled by an impressive portugal tonight, who dispatched iran with relative ease, 2-0, sending the iranians out of the cup ignomiously.
angola now only have a slight chance to [...]
okay, how can the world cup compete with hye-soo kim’s cleavage and “the apgujeong affair” (though the dutch did nearly as much rolling around on the pitch as those two atop that bus in apgujeong)?
match 21: argentina v. serbinegro
what can one say about a 6-0 thrashing? well, how about this: how sick are argentina [...]
match 20: sweden v. paraguay hye-soo kim’s cleavage v. my weak heart
i watched the sweden-paraguay match, saw sweden play all game with frantic desperation not to have another draw, saw paraguay play for the draw by playing stout defense (so that they’d have a huge chance for qualification against trinibago in their next match), saw [...]
i just got back from the pub and watching two matches; my heart’s still pounding from england’s leaving it late against trinibago. i can hardly type straight…
match 18: ecuador v. costa rica
this looked to be, for most people, it seemed, a boring match, but not for me because it was two latin american teams [...]
okay, so fu(k that last post of mine. i was asked to write here by the marmot himself, with no restrictions, so that’s what i’ll continue to do:
germany v. poland
dortmund was the site of the hosts’ second match and it was as festive an atmosphere as you could hope to see, one you would [...]
germany 1-0 poland. oliver neuville’s late goal saw off ten-man poland…
for our friends in the world’s largest archipelago, here’s your concise reporting with no self-indulgent musings (even in the title of this post).
don’t forget, folks, this is the WORLD cup, which involves the 32 nations from around the world, thus, each game get as much commentary as [...]
yes, it was not spain who fell on their arse tonight, it was my hijacked prediction that they would. i believe that this isn’t first mistake i’ve made all week.
i just realised another mistake: it’s not 3 in 15 matches that i’ve cheered for the winning team, but 4 in the first 15, as [...]
each team in the world cup plays three games apiece in the first round and, as i write this, the tunisia-saudi arabia match is the final match of this first “week.” when germany and poland kick off in just under two hours, it will mark the beginning of every team’s second go-round.
as tunisia lead [...]
okay, i realise that the spain-ukraine game is already over–and commentary will follow on that a little later–and i know that commenting on last night’s three matches is a little late, but i was unexpectedly detained in the hours leading up to that ukrainian debacle. actually the following is what i wrote very early [...]
day 5: i just can’t stand it…
okay, so i like to claim that i know a fair bit about football and like to write bollocks about it, as if you might not know. however, it’s becoming pretty clear in this world cup that any team i’m cheering for is either not going to win or [...]
as you dedicated and multitudinous readers of this page know, robert recently put out a call to find a sucker, er, person willing enough to give daily world cup updates. someone out there in the masses–it’s yet to be determined whether this was meant as a compliment or an insult to me–suggested me for [...]
