It's a World Cup year!

Not quite sure ...Does this mean your taste in cars sucks?

No ... no, I admit.Not like it's real football or anything. So I'm not missing anything important except maybe the car commercials.

Indeed it is. Even at the International level apparently. Taz was just saying something about some Japanese girls driving around South Africa in a Honda. I guess they won their game and were out celebrating or something. I didn't get much more than that.

Don't knock it, Limey, it worked didn't it!Good Ol' Yankee ingenuity. Y'all fell for it again, just like some 200 years ago.-----------------------------------------------------I do have an on-topic question.Saw the rankings of, Group G or something.Brazil had 1(win) 0(loss) 0(tie) for 3 point then +1 GD
North Korea had 0, 0, 1 for 0 points and -1 GDWhat is this GD thingie?Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Absurd! Soccer is soccer, always has been, always will be. Real Football is where you pick up the ball and throw it down the field with your arms (no your arms don't go down field with the ball, they stay attached to your body, otherwise it's a penalty.).First you'll notice that the ball used in soccer is round! It's not oblong like a real football. You pick it up and throw it and the damn thing just spins. No tight spiral along the greater axis (since the stupid thing doesn't have one) and thus no distance or accuracy.Look at the way a typical non-football soccer game is played. No one even touches the damn ball! No one picks it up and runs with it, no one picks it up and passes it down the field. It's like the poor thing is diseased and no one wants to touch it! Absurd.Look at the kicks and head-butts. Again no accuracy. The ball bounces every which way. No wonder no one ever scores in this so called sport. You run up and down the field with the ball going willy-nilly all over the place for 90 damn minutes and end up with an aggregate score of 0. Nothing. Nada.Look at all the games played so far in this presumptuously named World Cup and you get an average aggregate score of less than 1 per game! How the hell can you have a sport that has no scoring? That's not football. That's soccer. Absurd.We're all supposed to be kind and tolerant, accepting of other cultures' strange and weird mores, but this just goes too far. Some things in this world are just sacred (though not in a religious sense unless you're a Cowboys fan).Soccer is soccer. It is NOT football! It can hardly even be called a sport. This is another one of those instances where the damn foreigners in this world will just have to bow to the intellectual superiority of the American race. Damn foreigners. Absurd.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Hey, that's right! And in soccer you could break for 80% of the game and still come back to a 0-0 score. You could have 5 minutes of game then 20 minutes of car and lawyer commercials and not miss a thing. Kinda like late night shows.

Yes. I cannot see any beauty in a sport where scoring is apparently not allowed. I have already experienced maximal deflation for a period of years. I was married.

I appreciate your sympathy. Thank you for that. And yes, I did get to keep my balls ... all 5 of them.Back to OP:I note that Uruguay made 3 goals on South Africa. SA apparently played the game well as they did not score any goals. Uruguay erred in scoring. Three times. Is there a penalty in ranking for having violated the rules? Are they eliminated from the competition?Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

"Calamity" James? Does England not have any goalies?So for Team USA we need England/Algeria to have the standard 0-0 soccer outcome (boring) then go on to beat Algeria later on, yes?Not that I've become the least bit interested in any of this silliness, mind you. Just asking if my assessment of the situation has any intellectual merit.

How so? If England wins that gives them 4 points at the top of the group with Slovenia then USA third. An England tie puts Slovenia at 4 with England, USA second at 2 each. Where is the advantage in an England win?Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

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