So I actually watched the big USA v. England soccer/football FIFA pre-match game yesterday, and I enjoyed it immensely. America scored a point goal (Jesus, touchy football fans)! Woohoo! England scored a point goal too, early in the game (I believe it was minute four), and the game ended up being a tie, 1-1. But considering everyone expected the American team to get their Yankee asses handed to them, a tie is almost as good as winning. And now I have a crush on goalie Tim Howard (above), who is pretty hot when he’s angry.
Anyway, that’s not the point. The point is that when the American team finally scored their point goal, it was because of “luck” (according to the British commentator on ABC, who Gawker describes as “butthurt”), or because the British goalie, Robert Green, fumbled and missed an easy block, and the ball sort-of sauntered through the goalposts. The ABC cameramen got an excellent shot of the ball, and of Green’s sadface. But then some genius cut to David Beckham, sidelined because of injury, making the most excellent bitchface EVER. Here’s video of the long cut:
Ha! Of course there’s this too:
Anyway, there are now rumors that Green is going to be dropped because of his fumble, which is kind of sad. I mean, yes, he screwed up, but you can bet he’s never going to make that mistake again. As for our glorious American team (U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!), we don’t play again until Friday! Let’s check in with Beckham again:
i don’t get the way people talk about football. like such and such goal is lucky or such and such team didn’t deserve to win. if you score the most goals you deserve to win right? if you fumble and easy save then the other team deserves their goal!
Robert Green makes mistakes like that all the time in the EPL ( English Premier League ). He’s a useless goalkeeper and I hope he gets dropped and gives Joe Hart his turn.
As for Beckham, he is a beautiful man and a consumate professional. He is an awesome player and I, for one, am devastated he’s not playing in this World Cup.
Just a quick thing though, teams don’t score points during the game, they score goals. If they win they get 3 points, if they draw they get 1 and if they lose they get no points. Just sayin…
See, women do know about such things…
I don’t know how many times Beckham needs to be sidelined because of injury before he gets it through his thick head that he needs to retire.
The only people who consider Backham relevant are Americans. He was an average player in his prime and now too old.
Point? POINT?!
Okay, sorry, but no. You don’t score “points” in football. You score GOALS.
I get that the USA is kind of late to the party as far as this (overrated, tedious) sport is concerned, but the terminology has been in use for some time already and you might want to familiarise yourselves with it if you don’t want all the other teams looking at you funny.
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Why am I ranting? I f***ing hate football anyway.
Oh, who cares anyway? The point is, the Brits were supposed to beat the USA to a pulp and win by 100 points/goals/whatthehellever, and they didn’t. The Brit announcer and that Beck person were embarrassed. That’s all. And why dump the goalie? If the Brits were so superior they should have easily scored 99 more pointsgoalswhatthehellever and won the game anyway. They didn’t. So I say, dump the whole team.
USAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSA FOREVER!!!
P.S. I watched about two minutes of this thing and was so bored I fell asleep. I can’t wait for REAL football season to start.
^^^C’mon…how could you be bored with soccer. It’s the most suspense sport EVA!!!
I know u like american football, but, damn that sport really gives straight men an excuse to be gay for a moment. They can’t wait for someone to have the ball so they can jump ontop of each other (just joking).
hahahahahaha…..hahahaha. Don’t get your panties in a wad, it’s always kind of expected that the USA will lose. You know like the sun sets in the west and rises in the east. So when a ‘superior team,’ like england whose still pissed off at the boston tea party does not give them an ass whooping, epic bitch faces like the supreme beckam example above prevail.
Donovan was asleep (thankfully Rooney was too) Dempsey was slow and yes Green had slippy hands. But US easily kept pace until the last 10 min. That was nervewracking!
Kaiser you will be a lucky girl because Howard is always moody on the pitch. Quite dreamy off, tho-
The highlight of Algeria/Slovania was the 10 second shot of Zidane! Like cowbell, Lem needs more Zidane 😀
It’s the keeper’s job to hang onto the ball, and if he doesn’t, the other team scores. You have to bring your ‘A’ game to the field. If the situation were reversed, then England would shrug their shoulders and say, oh well, another goal.
Ally is spot on: but that’s ok, he raised the game profile over here, ever so slightly, for a millisecond and we’ll take it any way we can get it.
That was an AWESOME face!!!
ETA: idk about to old… but too soft, for sure
Wow. That Howard guy is a beautiful man. I might have to watch some football!
Lem – My present to you:
http://www.daily-calcio.com/main/images/stories/wc06_Zidane_incident_01_afp300x200.jpg
Putting it out there… I agree with the Brit commentators. With the exception of their VERY talented keeper, the US didn’t play half as well as the Brits. 80% of the game was played in the American’s end and the Brits had over 60% of the possession in the game. Based on their show, I can’t see the Americans getting very far in the tournament.
there is something in the water they give to soccer/football players. so many, SO HOT.
football (futbol, soccer) is the only sport this american can sit through. LOVE it. Im so happy the world cup is on now! keep the soccer coverage coming kaiser.
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Soccer (YES, I called it soccer, football is something completely different to this American even though I lived in England, lol) is THE most frustrating game in the world for me to watch! It has the pace of basketball, with the scoring (IN)frequency of football! Drives me insane, lol…
That being said, as the former wife of a Manchester United fanatical Englishman, I felt a personal stake in the Eng-v-US game and watched the whole damn thing… a tie was as good as winning to me considering everyone expected us to get trounced, but I, too, Kaiser, found a new fantasy subject in Tim Howard!!!! OMG, the man is tall, HOT and fantastically talented! The USA team as a whole may not be on the same caliber as the English team, but it was HOWARD who kept them from making more than one goal!!! So, yeah, England had the ball more, attempted half again as many goals, but guess what, lol… my new future (fantasy) husband stopped all but ONE! {=0)
is this really a topic? you should see my face when i watch football
I’m sure the 12 American soccer fans are really excited about this.
I love Footy…I’m an Irish woman and even though Ireland didn’t make it (thanks to the cheating French scum) to the World Cup I have been living for it.
I follow Manchester United, the best team in the world. I know when someone scores against them I do more than make a face…I think Becks was quite restrained…my husband has to leave the house on matchday…the language outta me, he would never love me again…and that’s when we’re winning!!! Beer and football for a month…does it get better???
Soccer (Football) is the greatest game on Earth. It’s an endless parade of sexy, sweaty man thighs, creative fashion/hairstyles, and pretty/manly faces. There is something for everyone 🙂
I prefer basketball-it’s action the whole time, hot men in shorts, also sweaty and in tank tops(: and I just find it oftentimes graceful and even elegant…high point scoring makes is far less boring to watch-esp. on t.v.
soccer=sexy legs, it’s true…but otherwise does nothing for me as a game…btw, soccer is extremely popular for children in the US [and has been for at least 30 yrs, when my brothers were children and played] and by about late jr. high, football and hockey take over as the sports of choice, depending upon where in the country one lives…and soccer,for some reason, becomes uncool and slightly geeky.
That has changed somewhat-soccer’s now pretty cool, but only relatively speaking.
I remember my brother attending a John Smith soccer camp one year-it was all the rage….gosh, this must’ve been late 70’s. so, americans aren’t *that* late for the party….as someone said. only at the professional level. lol
Beckham is soooo yesterday in the world of soccer.
Becks needs to get rid of that Tin-Tin ‘do.
Well I have zero interest in either type of football, but this post still cracked me up. I love it when I see a good bitchface.
Plus that man is the orange jersey is all kinds of HOT.
Ooh, the snots, the snoots, the good-natureds, the know-it-alls, the hottie-watchers, the yawners and the fans!
I’m a dirty leerer – I watch it because so few of them bother wearing a cup for some reason. Oh, and for the times England gets its ass handed to them and the rest of the world can tell them to suck it.
I love Beckham’s face. Vicky must be so proud! You know she wiped a tear of joy away (and promptly dropped a dress size).
Soccer is useless in this country as we have a million more entertaining sports to chose from. However, one can’t deny the abundance of eye candy. And yes Becks is an effin’ sexy bitch. I’ll cheer his cranky ass up any time…
The USa have a retarded version of rugby they like to call football. They’ll insist it’s a fansinating sport. When in reality you might as well wear a bucket on your head, a cage around you face, stuff your shoulders and pants, yell like crazied donkeys and slamb into a wall. Over and over and over again. Then they add to the asinine sport by calling it The sport of the world – when it’s just america that plays it. Meanwhile they take a load of pointless time bash a sport that actual does involve the whole world including theirs, and is actually entertaining to watch. From teh drama queens pretending to be injured to waste time to the ABOLSUTELY FRUSTRATING TENSION of seeing a player get so close to getting a goal….then miss. …swear to God I get a heart attack everytime! But american football is just a lame sport that makes absoluetly no sense to me. I still don’t get what the two forks are for. I’ll figure it out eventually when I actually bother to give a damn…which is unlikely since I prefer rugby….tight men all dirty and in the mud…yummy.
Thanks Kaiser. right back at ya!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqJpSoPBoVQ
or, if you prefer, single handedly taking on Brazil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvYlvkWpPy4
im with mistral. the legs, the butts, the shorts, the intense-looking pretty faces, the sweat, the ripping off of the jerseys – good god, soccer is a great sport.
snowball – “I’m a dirty leerer – I watch it because so few of them bother wearing a cup for some reason.” – this comment was kind of awesome.
Bugger, I knew the only way USA would come close to winning was if the English side slipped up, and unfortunatley I was right.
Sugar Bunnies…Not to be rude or anything, but soccer is a sport only palyed by Americans. All the other countries in the world play football. Maybe that’s the reason why you guys also have problems with the terminology.
Anyhow, I watched the match very intensely and my own personal opinion is: England should have won, but they kind of seemed tired and unfocused most of the time. The end was spectacular though, I think the second half was much better (don’t want to know what Mr Capello yelled at them in the changing room), it was like target shooting, it was beautiful. But again, stupid errors, you pay for ’em! So, yes, the style, the game, the structure, the thecnics of the American teams were laughable but in the end they won(as in, tied with England). Shame. On other news, Germany did what England was supposed to do, beautiful!! Whatch that match, you’ll see the differencies between real palyers and…well…
ps. Someone might want to explain to your goal maker of the night that you never (ever) make such scenes for a goal like that! Calling God as witness for THAT?! Please, even the italian commenters were going: WHAT?
pps.@Irm: Americans ARE late for the party, even at kids level. My cousins were born in America, last time I visited I saw A BUNCH of their games: AWFUL! Painful to watch, you don’t see that kind of uncapability to play or understand the game in little children (not even 3-4-5 years old) in any other country. Believe me.
awwww….that goalie looks just like my beautiful bald headed boyfriend 🙂
If it was the goalkeeper of the Netherlands who made that mistake I would make the same face :p.
Terrible match by the way, England-USA. Boooooring.
@OOns: because of that action of France, I’m hoping they will lose every match this World Cup. They don’t deserve to be there
Its soccer in America, and football to the rest of the world. And yeah dat thing America calls football, is boring as hell. Now world football on the other hand….wow! And yeah, Beckham is eye candy anyday.
I’m with you, Snowball.
And an interesting aside about Tim Howard – he has Tourette’s. He’s all kinds of awesome in my book.
Go, the All Whites!! (That’s the NZ soccer team, playing tomorrow.)
I guess I am the only one who thinks Becks looks hawt with his haircut and suit. oh well.
OMG people ..Netherlands match was
awesome….see you all later
@ Pleister Thank you. Good to know other’s feel the same way…Ireland are having a big campaign against France and Thierry Henry. He is a cheat and one of the most overrated players in the world. They are scum.
As for everybody lustin’ after Tim Howard..He is ex-Man Utd, so we’ve known about him for a looooonnnng time!!
He is a real nice guy who does lotsa work for underprivileged kids and to raise awareness for Tourettes Syndrome.
He plays for Everton now. (my 2nd team of choice).
what’s so funny about becks is that his snarl is all ‘clint eastwood/dirty harry’, but his voice is all soft like “are these sheets 1000 thread count egyptian?”
haha 🙂
jussayin
I don’t understand how people can claim the French “cheated”. Isn’t it the ref that makes the final call? In American sports, you blame the ref who made a bogus call, not the athlete who made the play. Why would you blame Thierry when he admitted it was a handball? What, was he supposed to fight the ref for calling it in their favor?!?!?
Ok I just read a little more about it and I think I understand now-most are accusing France & Switzerland of being in bed together regarding the officiating and the whole thing being essentially fixed. People say the same thing about the NBA (and I am in agreement) concerning corruption in the officiating, network and league in general.
I am French so I have to defend my peeps but I feel awful for the Irish. I was in Ireland last year for a couple weeks and loved the people and the gorgeous land 🙂
I would enjoy more posts about world cup and all those hotties playing…. I’ve just seen Italy vs Paraguay and I’m just impressed 🙂
@Kitten..He cheated, he did it on purpose and the whole of Europe saw it except the ref. Its quite political and an ongoing situation that real football fans are aware of. I’ve seen players own up when the ref has given a penalty unfairly. Its called sportsmanship. Thierry Henry has done it before and he’ll do it again. He is a cheat.
Now, saying all that, thank you for your lovely comments about my home. Its not France we hate, just Henry.
I was in Paris last year and had one of the best summers ever. The people were lovely and friendly and the food was amazing.
Oh Kaiser, you’re awesome. I too love Tim Howard, so thanks for showing him some love.
Vovol drivers suck…I live with the constant wounds to prove their incompetence.
Paraguay breakthroughs into the quarter finals of the World Cup! Who’d have thought so?
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what can I say that bald-headed dude is so HOTTTTTTTTTTTTT! i want to grab his head and hold on to it for dear life.