2010 World Cup talk

• gorocks99

  

  Mexico are just dominating early
• Fab1b

  

  Mexico controlling the ball
• trackandccrunner

  gorocks where did you find a feed that works good... I've found 2 but they have been shitty.
• Fab1b

  

  Wow Mexico almost again
• I Wear Pants

  Haha @ Mexico getting screwed.
• tk421

  

  Anyone else think soccer needs another referee on the field? You have one guy running among 20 players, and two other officials on the side lines who have terrible views of the action. They can't possibly see everything and get the calls correct.
• I Wear Pants

  Don't forget the fourth official.
• Laley23

  

  Holy shit someone needs to tell Martin Tyler and Efan Ekoku the damn rules of soccer. The offside rule states the SECOND TO LAST DEFENDER. The keeper clearly came up past Vela and the glancing header turned into a pass. The keeper was no longer the last defender he was the second to last defender and the man on the post was the last. Vela was only behind ONE of them, thus offside. Terrific call from the linesman, simply terrific. Not many linesmen would notice something like that.
  
  Now, someone please tell ESPN so they stop bitching about the bad call because it was the correct one and SA wouldve been screwed if they allowed the goal.
• gorocks99

  

  trackandccrunner;386586 wrote:gorocks where did you find a feed that works good... I've found 2 but they have been shitty.

  
  I'm using ESPN3.com. Someone at my office let me in w/ their comcast.net ID.
• NilesPacMan

  Laley23;386615 wrote:Holy shit someone needs to tell Martin Tyler and Efan Ekoku the damn rules of soccer. The offside rule states the SECOND TO LAST DEFENDER. The keeper clearly came up past Vela and the glancing header turned into a pass. The keeper was no longer the last defender he was the second to last defender and the man on the post was the last. Vela was only behind ONE of them, thus offside. Terrific call from the linesman, simply terrific. Not many linesmen would notice something like that.
  
  Now, someone please tell ESPN so they stop bitching about the bad call because it was the correct one and SA wouldve been screwed if they allowed the goal.

  
  Exactly. Thank you. I was screaming at them for that, and I was just going to post that. The guy ESPN has commentating it on my phone knew the rule, so that was good, but I was dumbfounded about the idiocy of them.
  
  As a goalkeeper in games that don't mean much, but they still call offsides, I used that rule to my advantage. Very few people know it's the second to last defender, so it's always fun.
• Laley23

  

  NilesPacMan;386623 wrote:Exactly. Thank you. I was screaming at them for that, and I was just going to post that. The guy ESPN has commentating it on my phone knew the rule, so that was good, but I was dumbfounded about the idiocy of them.
  
  As a goalkeeper in games that don't mean much, but they still call offsides, I used that rule to my advantage. Very few people know it's the second to last defender, so it's always fun.

  
  Yeah, im shocked Martin Tyler didnt know the rule...although he was kind of mum on the issue. I think he didnt want to upstage Ekoku with an on air correction. He was kind of light-hearted in his disagreement with the call.
  
  As for Ekoku, I shouldnt be so hard. He is a former player and often they dont actually know the rules. ESPN brought him in, and he is actually doing a great job as the color commentator but he clearly didnt know that rule as most player wouldnt.
• NilesPacMan

  Yah, don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely thrilled that ESPN has brought in some of these announcers to call these games. I love having a English/Scottish/Irish accent calling my soccer games, it makes it feel authentic, it was just a bit strange to hear neither of them actually acknowledge the actual rule. Other than that, I'm enjoying them pretty much.
  
  South Africa started out rusty, but they're doing much better now. Sometimes though, they make bad passes at their end of the pitch, which could have been devastating early on. They need to just clear it, rather than giving the ball right back to Mexico near the goal. On the other hand, Mexico has given South Africa a ton of space, and if South Africa makes better passes, swings it more, and uses the whole pitch, they could score one or more in this half.
• Laley23

  

  SA would have been burned by Anelka or Forlan with their bad passes out of the back. Luckily Mexico is leaded with talent on the wings, but no true forward to punish those bad passes.
  
  And Im with you on the announcers. Martin Tyler is the best in the business. I feel as though I am playing FIFA 10 right now!
• gorocks99

  

  BAFANA BAFANA! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
• Automatik

  

  Wow what a blast!!
• tk421

  

  GGGGGGOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! South Africa.
• Fab1b

  

  YES
• tk421

  

  Pretty sweet that SA scores the first goal in WC on African soil.
• I Wear Pants

  LOL @ Mexico
• NilesPacMan

  What an absolutely beautiful counter-attack. There was no stopping of that by the Mexican goalkeeper. Let's see how they play with the lead since that'll be a huge confidence booster in front of their home crowd.
• Laley23

  

  What a freaking shot from a pretty shit angle. Upper 90 for tshalalalallalalala (wont even try to actually spell that name).
• Automatik

  

  SA's goalkeeper is doin' the damn thing!
• trackandccrunner

  Haha lucky you gorocks... O well I got the radio atleast! Can't wait to see this goal on tv it sounds like it was a beauty.
• Fab1b

  

  Man SA has had tons of chances this half to add to it
• Laley23

  

  trackandccrunner;386671 wrote:Haha lucky you gorocks... O well I got the radio atleast! Can't wait to see this goal on tv it sounds like it was a beauty.

  
  It wont even be top 15 for the WC, it was just that it was a breakaway from the side (so bad angle) and the dude said, "Fuck it, im hitting this bitch as hard as I can" and just roped it upper 90 from like 12 yards away.