The Hanguk Ilbo, quoting an unnamed Korea Football Association official, is reporting that it appears FIFA has once again blocked access to its website from Korea, this time in response to angry netizens protesting their team’s admittedly hard-to-understand drop to 56 in the world rankings.
Actually, I’m not sure whether they’ve blocked access or so many [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WARNING: Potential flame war material. Viewer discretion advised.
A Japanese football columnist has penned a piece slamming Korea for its “exclusive nationalism” as seen in the World Cup, says Korean sports media OSEN.
In a column Wednesday, the Nikkan Sports‘ Nishimura Goyu wrote that Korean media reports and netizen behavior concerning referee decisions in Korea’s matches [...]
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 [...]
The LA Times claims that Australia’s heartbreaking loss to Italy was essentially a makeup call for 2002:
The Aussies should have known it would end this way. It was inevitable.
The seed for Australia’s 1-0 World Cup defeat by Italy on Monday on a blatantly incorrect penalty kick awarded by Spanish referee Luis Medina Cantalejo in 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 [...]
What I want to know about new Korean field general Pim Verbeek is this—is he related to former Whaler left wing Pat Verbeek? Because I don’t know about Pim, but Pat was one hell of a winger—not everyone can score 40 goals with 200+ penalty minutes a season, after all, even with Ronnie Francis [...]
The Kukmin Ilbo’s Internet edition is reporting on the ongoing strife between FIFA’s homepage administrators and the unstoppable force that is Korea’s netizen community.
As reported earlier, FIFA has blocked access to its homepage from Korea. This has sparked outrage among many Korean netizens, who accuse FIFA of dissing Korea. Some of the more radical quarters [...]
UPDATE 5: You know, I think the Japanese are handling their early exit from the World Cup in a much healthier fashion.
Oh, and in the Wiki theater of operations (see below), the frontlines appear to be quite fluid at the moment. And I’ve been linked as a source. Great.
UPDATE 4: You could always join the [...]
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 [...]
I’m not sure if there are more pics to come, but Playboy UK has some of Lee Pani’s photos up (NOT work safe).
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