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June 18, 2010

USA Wins Game But Referees Don't See It That Way
— Ace

Ummm...

Almost a game I was happy to watch... and then this happened. After going down 2-0 early, the USA rallied back to a 2-2 tie and then scored the winning goal.

But they got Galaraggaed.

Background on the reasons for this idiotic call at Allah's joint. And what was the claimed foul? The ref won't say. You'll just have to take his word that something happened here.

Just when I open the door to soccer...

It's not just that we tied when we should have won, of course. It's a confirmation of the suspicion that the game is kind of nonsense in the first place.

That idiot at The Nation (and NPR) whined that if the United States was doing well at the World Cup, all of us wingnuts would rally around them and root our little fascist hearts out.

Well, yeah. I'm not a fan of competitive swimming but if an American is doing something historic, you betcha, I'm a fan of swimming for a week and a half.

He says this like it's a bad thing -- as it's somehow wrong to cultivate an appreciation of a sport not based on the sport itself but out of patriotic sentiment and wishing your fellow countrymen to do well.

Anyway: Good job, Team USA. You won the game. Most anyone can ask of you.

Posted by: Ace at 01:42 PM | Comments (144)
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1 hmmmmmmmmm

Posted by: elspeth at June 18, 2010 01:45 PM (5jYrK)

2 You got to use the new word, "Galaraggaed." That ref should be Plutoed.

Posted by: rdbrewer at June 18, 2010 01:46 PM (7eWcr)

3 I didn't know Jim Joyce was dark skinned...

i'm sorry but I don't have a slight inkling of hope/belief that the US will EVER win a world cup, they're more likely of winning Hockey in the Winter Olympic Games then a World Cup

Posted by: YRM at June 18, 2010 01:47 PM (38UQ3)

'One Game Changes Everything'

(unless a ref. decides otherwise.)

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2010 01:49 PM (61bhx)

5 I am from canuckistan and that jackoff jerked you guys out of a win. So, he's from beautiful Mali, eh?

Posted by: SaskMike at June 18, 2010 01:49 PM (vs6yz)

USA: Best swing jazz music in the world.

Slovenia: Best techno music in the world.

So this match was really the Big Bands vs. the Techno DJs.

They came out even.

Posted by: FireHorse at June 18, 2010 01:49 PM (cQyWA)

7 I'm going to stick with the standard excuse - It's (somehow) Bush's Fault! Why, if he had not accumulated so much foreign bad will during his 2 terms that even Obama couldn't negate...

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 18, 2010 01:49 PM (c0A3e)

8 The ref is from Mali. Per Wiki, it's one of the poorest nations in the world, and 90% Muzzie. Koman Coulibaly probably received a handsome goat and $3.52 to make sure the US didn't win.

Posted by: Navin R Johnson at June 18, 2010 01:49 PM (HpT9p)

9 I'm ready for some good news for a change. What a dismal week. Even though it shouldn't have been, seems like.

Posted by: rdbrewer at June 18, 2010 01:50 PM (7eWcr)

10 "It's a confirmation of the suspicion that the game is kind of nonsense in the first place." Nailed it.

Posted by: USA at June 18, 2010 01:50 PM (YZISw)

11 Tell us about it. :^(

Posted by: the buffalo sabres at June 18, 2010 01:50 PM (7b1Uc)

Larry Marchant Looooves Soccer! So does Andrew Sullivan.

I'm just sayin'.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 18, 2010 01:51 PM (T1boi)

13 why do we have 2 soccer threads in 1 day and no mention of Ron Artest thanking his psychiatrist or his hilarious drunken post game press conference? :/

OT: Elton John is becoming my fav lefty, first he and Rush are becoming buds and then he still comes and rocks at Isreal and he ripped the ones who canceled

Posted by: YRM at June 18, 2010 01:51 PM (38UQ3)

14 My interest in the outcome of the world cup just had a square root function done to it. Not because of the tie, but the obvious BS that backs up my perception of favoritism in FIFA.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 18, 2010 01:51 PM (0q2P7)

15 It was a 'social justice' call...

Soccer is so very gay....

Posted by: model_1066 at June 18, 2010 01:52 PM (VnECg)

16
soccer == figure skating

They should get rid of the goals and make it into 90 minutes of 22 guys kicking the ball around.

When time expires, the judges will hold up score cards.

Posted by: MikeO at June 18, 2010 01:53 PM (lBmZl)

17 OT: cool thing going on in the local guy's radio show, he has to catch a flight to the gulf coast in an hour and he's doing the last part of the show through his cell phone

Posted by: YRM at June 18, 2010 01:53 PM (38UQ3)

18 Reminds me referees of the game in the olympics, between America and ussr for gold in basketball. I believe it was around 1972 or 1973, not sure. It was the first time America lost a basketball game in the olympics because of the call of the referees.

Posted by: Heltau at June 18, 2010 01:53 PM (RZDTZ)

19 The goal was rejected because the guy broke the offside rule, simple as that.
I know it's hard to grasp for non-soccer fans, specially in such a close game, but the rule is simple:

You can't be closer to the goal than the ball and an opposing team's player other than the goalie.

It's explained here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiwmR6CC0Bk

It's not some dark conspiracy or whatever, it's just the rules. The US tied, be happy with that.

Posted by: Offside Rule at June 18, 2010 01:54 PM (3dgrv)

20 Hmm that is too bad.
So what is the next step then for the US? Are they out of contention?

Posted by: chemjeff at June 18, 2010 01:55 PM (Gk/wA)

21 It really did take some wind out of my sails for soccer. I actually love the sport but with all the flopping in international play and apparently some corrupt officiating it's pretty tough to emotionally invest in something that is not really on the level.

Posted by: Tommy V at June 18, 2010 01:55 PM (VqHU/)

Pluto Coulibaly.

Posted by: rdbrewer at June 18, 2010 01:55 PM (7eWcr)

23 Offside rule:

Now soccer is officially gayer than a tree full of parrots.

Posted by: model_1066 at June 18, 2010 01:56 PM (VnECg)

24 I say we carpet bomb the fucking World Cup. And invade any pussy country who complains.

Posted by: sifty at June 18, 2010 01:56 PM (JR2D9)

25 If we wanted to, we could take the first few dozen guys who didn't quite make the NFL or NBA this year, train 'em for a few months, and be the total world champions of soccer, rugby, and just about any other poncy "sport" that third-world countries drool over.

Posted by: J. Moses Browning at June 18, 2010 01:56 PM (9uSk0)

26 You Play To Tie The Game!

Posted by: Herm Edwards Soccer Coach at June 18, 2010 01:56 PM (61bhx)

Libtards never root for America. They root against us when we win and when we lose. When we win, the tell us how much we suck.

I'm going to beat a libtard just for practice today.

Posted by: gus at June 18, 2010 01:56 PM (Vqruj)

28 It was a great goal, and the Ref was right there too.
That would have gotten him killed in several South American countries.
But the US ate it big time in the 1st half, so there's plenty of blame to go around. The question is - which team do we have 1st half's or second?
And the Brits tied so those points would have been nice to advance.

Posted by: ontherocks at June 18, 2010 01:57 PM (HBqDo)

29 Offside Rule: Watch the clip. I am a sock fan and there was no offside rule. I am still annoyed by people who are contrarian for the sake of it. They'll even argue againt video evidence if it makes them feel a little superior for 20 minutes.

Posted by: Tommy V at June 18, 2010 01:57 PM (VqHU/)

Posted by: Heltau at June 18, 2010 05:53 PM (RZDTZ)

I saw a documentary on that, they kept giving Russian repeated tries at winning the game, it was a total screwjob

Posted by: Offside Rule at June 18, 2010 05:54 PM (3dgrv)

most Soccer experts are ripping the call, guess they're wrong? let's get 1 thing straight, FIFA needs the US to play well to have any hope of Soccer growing and getting more popular then drunk europeans, but I don't think it will ever happen because well, US will never win FIFA

Posted by: YRM at June 18, 2010 01:57 PM (38UQ3)

31 FIFA is a nice, nice UN type organization where they all sign kumbya and everyone get along. Choice of SA was 100% political and with the focus on Africa you can't be surprised. Soccer will always be an acquired taste and moves far too slow for Americans- football, hockey, basketball all move faster with more scoring. So the ref inserted themselves in the match and blew the call- not the first time, nor the last. Left send Obama to fix it...perhaps he could stay behind....

Posted by: John at June 18, 2010 01:57 PM (6FYZ6)

32 Elton John is learning what Bruce Bawer learnt: Muslims don't much approve of teh fagz.

Posted by: Zimriel at June 18, 2010 01:58 PM (9Sbz+)

Score one for one the poor, oppresed peoples of the world: Slovenia!

(50th in the world in per capita GDP -- right behind South Korea, right above New Zealand.)

Posted by: FireHorse at June 18, 2010 01:58 PM (cQyWA)

34 I think it's terrible that the US soccer team was robbed of a win by what was obviously a fair, balanced call from a group of professional, unbiased referees.

Posted by: The Los Angeles Lakers at June 18, 2010 01:59 PM (e8YaH)

Hey offside rule. You are correct about the rule. Not so much correct about what happened. Do yourself a great big favor. After fucking yourself with a 2 x 4. Fuck off and die. NO ONE CALLED EDU OFF SIDE.

NO ONE.

Posted by: gus at June 18, 2010 01:59 PM (Vqruj)

36 Hey, the ref had it right!

Posted by: Don Denkinger at June 18, 2010 02:00 PM (MMC8r)

37 Maybe 'full-contact' soccer that NHL players could do for off season conditioning...one dude who plays 'enforcer' on some team (I forget) is 6'6" 260# and teaches streetfighting in his spare time...put him up against ten of these wussy soccer fops...I would watch that.

Posted by: model_1066 at June 18, 2010 02:00 PM (VnECg)

38 The goal was rejected because the guy broke the offside rule, simple as that.
I know it's hard to grasp for non-soccer fans, specially in such a close game, but the rule is simple:

BS.
The ref did nothing until after the goal. Then oh foul, but I won't say why. The real reason of the foul was vague and deliberately so. Making something up based on tapes after the fact is BS. You could watch any goal, by any team, in slow motion and find a foul somewhere to call. That's one of the reason you don't review penalties in American Football.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 18, 2010 02:00 PM (0q2P7)

39 I think we can all agree that U2 sucks more than even soccer.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2010 02:01 PM (61bhx)

Posted by: Herm Edwards Soccer Coach at June 18, 2010 05:56 PM (61bhx)

another reason Soccer hasn't gotten love in the US, NHL suffered from it too until they stopped the ties

Posted by: gus at June 18, 2010 05:56 PM (Vqruj)

that dope, Lemont Hill, scoffed at O'Reilly for bringing up sports, he said he was an intellectual and had no time for it, well damn thanks for proving how out of touch you are Hill

Posted by: YRM at June 18, 2010 02:01 PM (38UQ3)

41 Its soccer. The best game ever played rates a zero on my give-a-shit meter.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at June 18, 2010 02:01 PM (rurh0)

42 An important fact about soccer:

It sucks.

Posted by: sifty at June 18, 2010 02:02 PM (JR2D9)

43 Can someone put me in touch with the referee? I'm going to offer him a job as Soccer Czar.

Posted by: Barack Obama at June 18, 2010 02:02 PM (U6MtO)

Chris Gregoire for President! Al Franken for Secretary of State!

Posted by: Offtune Fool at June 18, 2010 02:02 PM (9Sbz+)

45 Posted by: gus at June 18, 2010 05:56 PM (Vqruj)

another thing to add on to your point, two libs were sitting in front of me when I went to see a christmas wrestling show and they played a troops tribute that showed Dubya and Obama thanking WWE for their support for the troops, it's FL and it's Tampa so it was a split reaction but the two libs were disgusted when they saw me booing Obama, what suprised me was that when everyone started chanting USA! USA! USA! they looked really uncomfortable

after all this is the same party that threw away american flags after they were done w/ them in the DNC

Posted by: YRM at June 18, 2010 02:03 PM (38UQ3)

46 The goal was rejected because the guy broke the offside rule, simple as that.
I know it's hard to grasp for non-soccer fans, specially in such a close game, but the rule is simple:

The fact that anyone here is trying to defend the "integrity of the sport" after obvious BS is putting another square root in my interest in soccer. I don't expect Slovenian's to side with us, but pretty much everyone else should break signal Bravo Sierra on this one and stand behind fair play.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 18, 2010 02:04 PM (0q2P7)

You kow how I know you're gay?

Soccer.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2010 02:04 PM (61bhx)

I am with you Ace on the rooting for the Americans ideal. That's exactly why lefties floated the idea that wingnuts would only get behind it if we started winning, lefties have a hard time rooting for the U.S. We don't. That's why I love the Olympics, every couple of years I watch a sport intently that I normally could give a shit about because I am rooting for my fellow countrymen. They say it like it's a bad thing. Well to a lefty.

Posted by: Bruce The Robert at June 18, 2010 02:05 PM (sh0JB)

49 In all fairness to the ref, we wouldn't have needed this "winning" goal if hotshot US goalkeeper Tim Howard had deigned to take his fucking hands off his knees and perhaps move a tiny bit when the Slovenians' first goal was sailing three inches past his head.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 18, 2010 02:05 PM (Zj8fM)

50 Okay, I won't turn this into a "soccer is teh ghey" thread (or at least I won't contribute to doing so). And yes, we got hosed on that call. The USA team, they done good.

Posted by: Monty at June 18, 2010 02:05 PM (jM/Et)

51 Every soccer fan secretly lusts after Ryan Seacrest.

Posted by: sifty at June 18, 2010 02:05 PM (JR2D9)

I think we can all agree that U2 sucks more than even soccer.

I will follow a better sport, and I'll watch it with or without you, but I still haven't found what ...

... oh, never mind.

Posted by: FireHorse at June 18, 2010 02:06 PM (cQyWA)

53 This is because we don't have proper hooligans... If we had bleacher-collapsing numbers of straight-ahead skull-crackers in the stands --like the Italians and the South Americans do-- the refs wouldn't be so quick to sell out. You see, soccer is a metaphor for politics. If you want to "win," you either have to pay the right people, or be prepared to slit a few throats. It seems we Americans went over there with empty pockets...

Posted by: SuperMag at June 18, 2010 02:07 PM (M4rLe)

54 Thing is, any team from the United States of America is already a winner when they arrive at the event. Regardless of sport.

And it pisses all the right people off.

Posted by: sifty at June 18, 2010 02:08 PM (JR2D9)

55 That Ref should have been wearing a Blue Helmet.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2010 02:08 PM (61bhx)

56 But is Edu circumcised, because that's what the Moronosphere really wants to know. Or did he apologize to BP?

Posted by: The Pennsylvania State University Mann Report at June 18, 2010 02:09 PM (w9bVp)

57 That's why I love the Olympics, every couple of years I watch a sport intently that I normally could give a shit about because I am rooting for my fellow countrymen.

Yes I actually became quite fond of woman's beach volleyball during the Olympics. It gave me a great idea for ESPN 8 the ocho. Sports babes play in bikini's What's not to love?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 18, 2010 02:09 PM (0q2P7)

58 woohoo! Ask about our specialth big boy.

Posted by: Greek Tourism Board at June 18, 2010 02:10 PM (JR2D9)

59 after all this is the same party that threw away american flags after they were done w/ them in the DNC

Don't forget booing Boy Scouts when presenting the Colors.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at June 18, 2010 02:10 PM (/U/Mr)

60 Goals in soccer are so rare that they are statistical outliers, like airline accidents or winning the lottery. Who scores the most goals is a function more of chance than skill or strategy. This makes for an inherently maddening game.

Posted by: RNB at June 18, 2010 02:12 PM (WkjqG)

61 What? You mean people other than 9 year old girls play soccer? Learn sunpthin' erer day, I gess.

Posted by: maddogg at June 18, 2010 02:12 PM (OlN4e)

If you're a soccer ball and I happen to be alone with you, don't be surprised if all the air in you escapes.

just sayin'

Posted by: torabora at June 18, 2010 02:13 PM (TrKqL)

63 I see nothing wrong with Judge Diebold's call.

Posted by: Alvin Greene at June 18, 2010 02:14 PM (7+pP9)

64 It's a confirmation of the suspicion that the game is kind of nonsense in the first place.

Yep. Not much else to say after one realizes that soccer is pretty much bullshit.
Except -- NFL exhibition games begin in six weeks. Sanity returns to the world.

Posted by: Full Moon at June 18, 2010 02:14 PM (6UfSo)

65 54 Every soccer fan secretly lusts after Ryan Seacrest.

Posted by: sifty at June 18, 2010 06:05 PM (JR2D9)

Ryan wanted to play soccer, but he was too short...and too ghey.

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at June 18, 2010 02:16 PM (YVZlY)

Hell I played competitive soccer for 12 years and I can't fucking stand to watch it.

Bullshit like this seals the deal..

Posted by: Burn the Witch at June 18, 2010 02:16 PM (fLHQe)

67 ace and his co bloggers just need to accept these soccer threads aren't very popular

again why not a thread on the dude who thanked his psychiatrist after winning a title and showed up to the press conference drunk? :/

Posted by: YRM at June 18, 2010 02:16 PM (38UQ3)

68 World Cup Soccer was awesome today...3 games, 2 ties. Yeah, that's what I want to spend my time watching.

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at June 18, 2010 02:18 PM (YVZlY)

69 I think the least one can ask for is that when a penalty is called right after a goal, the reason for the penalty is immediately given.

Just seems like common sense. You don't get to go back and review the tapes and then say what the problem was.

America was robbed, and it's not too surprised. A lot of soccer's professionals have been outright hostile to us.

Posted by: Chinese Zorro at June 18, 2010 02:18 PM (dUOK+)

70 Multiple soccer posts on AoSHQ. I feel myself becoming one with my feminine side.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 18, 2010 02:20 PM (r1h5M)

71 There's nothing wrong with soccer. It's a fine game. After all, England and Algeria tied 0-0 this afternoon, so there's hope for us yet!!

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at June 18, 2010 02:20 PM (MmyYP)

72 Obama hasn't turned us Third World enough yet for us to win the World Cup.

You know who plays soccer well?

Unicorns.

Posted by: sifty at June 18, 2010 02:21 PM (JR2D9)

73 soccer= teh ghey

rugby= what we called 'smear the queer' when we were kiddos.

american football= adult sport.

sorry third world. you suck.

Posted by: str8 outta at June 18, 2010 02:21 PM (zaGPI)

74 and dont give me the 'rugby is tougher than the NFL' crap. rugby has veteran leagues lol ex-NFL players are ruined for life after the game.

Posted by: str8 outta at June 18, 2010 02:22 PM (zaGPI)

75 All the more reason for Americans to reject the official sport of the UN.

Posted by: Entropy at June 18, 2010 02:23 PM (eL+YD)

76 Soccer = Punching Down.

Posted by: somegag at June 18, 2010 02:24 PM (4WbTI)

77 the conitnuous time flow in soccer is retarded also. when play stops because someone is on the ground, or whatever the seconds tick away, can make the difference in some matches. its stupid. and why didnt i just put this opinion in my earlier posts? im stupid.

Posted by: str8 outta at June 18, 2010 02:24 PM (zaGPI)

78 Great Mabhida's Ghost! What a game!
By the way, today's Amazon special: Blowout Preventers from Global Protection. Great for BP and US sucker matches. You jingoists really need to get out more.

Posted by: Cal-res Johanssen, Official Bicycle Seat of the Obama Administration and FIFA at June 18, 2010 02:27 PM (LTLOB)

NFL players are ruined for life after the game.

I never played in the NFL, but football still ruined my knees. And I look at the scars on my face every morning when I shave. And the crooked fingers from being broken. American football is a rough game.

Posted by: maddogg at June 18, 2010 02:28 PM (OlN4e)

80 rugby= what we called 'smear the queer' when we were kiddos.

Yeah come to think of it very similar. Basically mob the guy with the ball, really only two differences, the guys hitting you from the front are your 'opponents' the guys hitting you from the rear are your 'teammates' and there is some vague concept about scoring points. Everything else is pretty much the same.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 18, 2010 02:30 PM (0q2P7)

81 American football is a rough game."

a great example of the toughness of our sport comes in this great example...

darren sproles of the san diego chargers.

go ahead and laugh when hes mentioned, mostly everyone loves the little tough dude. the guy is what? 4ft tall? but he'll run right into a front line fearlessly and then still manage to shake off huge tackles and line up for the next play lol he's no larger than a tee-ball player.

Posted by: str8 outta at June 18, 2010 02:31 PM (zaGPI)

82 #85 I never played in the NFL, but football still ruined my knees. And I look at the scars on my face every morning when I shave. And the crooked fingers from being broken. American football is a rough game.

Agreed. I got out pretty much unscathed from 8 years of school football-only got a hyper-extended elbow.

/It's rough, but I wouldn't have traded those years playing football in the Fall months for anything else, especially soccer!

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 18, 2010 02:31 PM (c0A3e)

83 Any game that ends in a tie that doesn't have hockey sticks, skates and beating each other to a bloody pulp is NOT a sport.

Posted by: mpfs,man I get tired lugging these DDs around all day at June 18, 2010 02:31 PM (iYbLN)

84 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLUH!

(I know nothing about soccer, nor do I care - obviously because I am a racist conservative)

Posted by: Trinity at June 18, 2010 02:32 PM (IHAOQ)

85 the guy is what? 4ft tall?

5'6" not exactly jockey material.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 18, 2010 02:32 PM (0q2P7)

86 If the North Korean team had been jobbed like this kim jong would be invading South Korea right now.

Posted by: bulwark at June 18, 2010 02:33 PM (swBPc)

Monkey Steals The Peach is a recognized soccer move.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Cicero at June 18, 2010 02:33 PM (QKKT0)

88 What I love about rich left-wing American soccer scum is that they typically bash Joe Sixpack for sitting on his couch watching the NFL -- who do they think makes up the majority of the fanbase in England, France, Nigeria, etc, etc? It's the same supposedly dumbass Jacques Sixpack and Wesley Fish-and-Chips.

It's like hating American Soap Operas but bragging about how much you love the telenovelas on Univision -- it's the same damn thing just in another language. It's just stupid. It's like claiming the magazine "People en Espanol" is somehow more high-brow than "People" magazine.

It's all a transparent status play to seem worldly and cosmopolitan, yada, yada, yada. Well, transparent to me, not to them it seems.

Posted by: huh at June 18, 2010 02:33 PM (+ABdJ)

89 Any game with this much running that ends in a tie must have been invented by France.

Posted by: sifty at June 18, 2010 02:33 PM (JR2D9)

90 also, ill admit rugby is funner to watch than soccer and there are great hits. i like the aussies myself. but if you wanna take a gander at NFL play, in a truer sense, go to NFL.com. they stream live games at times and give you the option of watching the action at ground level. watching plays from the QB's point of view is...far different than what you see on TV. it's pretty much like.. "holy shit".

Posted by: str8 outta at June 18, 2010 02:34 PM (zaGPI)

91 Rand Paul!

Posted by: robtr at June 18, 2010 02:34 PM (fwSHf)

92 Soccer would be cooler if every player carried a leaf blower.

Posted by: Cicero at June 18, 2010 02:35 PM (QKKT0)

93 O/T: Anadarko has issued a statement

Posted by: curious at June 18, 2010 02:35 PM (p302b)

94 I've heard that there is cheating in soccer. That all this crap is a giant show, big entertainment and well, it's a lot like the UN

Posted by: curious at June 18, 2010 02:36 PM (p302b)

95 but really folks. its a wholly different game besides the similar name. i dont mind watching soccer all that much, doesnt really bother me in the least. and our british/euro 'homies' on this site need to know we mostly bash soccer because the lefties over here act like numnuts over it. that being said, i hafta say to any englishman who may be reading these comments....

....your team was suckin today. whats goin on?

Posted by: str8 outta at June 18, 2010 02:38 PM (zaGPI)

96 Sharkman, that was an illusion. Howard didn't move because he never had a chance. He came out to cut down the angle and no one covered the man with the ball. That much space and time in hockey or soccer is absolutely deadly. It was the US' fault. Just not the Keeper's.

Posted by: Tommy V at June 18, 2010 02:38 PM (VqHU/)

97 College world series coming up this weekend .
A game played by real athletes who ,,,gasp ,, use their hands .
Do I watch two of the top teams in the soccer world play to a 0-0 tie or watch American baseball players in their teens and early twenties attempt to hit 95 mph fastballs 400 ft.
There will be no ties .
No fake injuries .
No comparison .

Posted by: awkward davies at June 18, 2010 02:41 PM (B4e7Q)

98 http://tinyurl.com/23ye2o6

Posted by: Tommy V at June 18, 2010 02:41 PM (VqHU/)

99 Sorry, ESPN talking about the phantom goal: http://tinyurl.com/23ye2o6

Posted by: Tommy V at June 18, 2010 02:41 PM (VqHU/)

100

I don't know who I hate more, the "first half" crowd, or the "what will people think if the GOP fights back" crowd?

Some of you are in both. FYNQ.

Team USA got jobbed.

Posted by: Pelvis at June 18, 2010 02:42 PM (LlaBi)

101 You know who this benefits? Mitt Romney.

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at June 18, 2010 02:42 PM (LUOJk)

102

It's like hating American Soap Operas but bragging about how much you love the telenovelas on Univision -- it's the same damn thing just in another language. It's just stupid. It's like claiming the magazine "People en Espanol" is somehow more high-brow than "People" magazine.

Well usually the women on those are hotter than the ones on soap operas.

Posted by: buzzion at June 18, 2010 02:44 PM (oVQFe)

103 gotta go pick the son up from Militia Camp.

See you crackas later.

Posted by: sifty at June 18, 2010 02:44 PM (JR2D9)

104

OK, I don't know shit about soccer other than the fact that it doesn't much interest me.

But... umm... one of the Slovenian players more or less had one of our guys in a bear hug, and the US gets called for an unspecified call on an unspecified player after a goal?

Yeah, I don't see myself getting emotionally involved in this sport anytime soon.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at June 18, 2010 02:44 PM (plsiE)

105

str8, our problem was that the English team is full of spoilt, arrogant millionaires who thought that playing their fullest effort against Algeria - Algeria! - was beneath them.

Posted by: Offtune Fool at June 18, 2010 02:47 PM (9Sbz+)

106 ahem, sock.

Posted by: Zimriel at June 18, 2010 02:47 PM (9Sbz+)

107 str8, our problem was that the English team is full of spoilt, arrogant millionaires who thought that playing their fullest effort against Algeria - Algeria! - was beneath them."

---and whats astounding is that england had better control of the ball for the majority of the game. it seemed like when algeria gained the ball they just....well, im not sure what it was they were doing. so i agree with commenters over at the times and other publications in england. if you dont wanna play, then go home.

Posted by: str8 outta at June 18, 2010 02:50 PM (zaGPI)

108 93

Monkey Steals The Peach Gives A Reach-around is a recognized soccer move.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Cicero at June 18, 2010 06:33 PM (QKKT0)

FIFY.

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at June 18, 2010 02:54 PM (YVZlY)

109 I won't bother to read the comments. Look, the World Cup is effectively the UN Sports Channel. There's no way the US will ever get a fair shake, as seen by Americans - the other teams and referees have it rigged. It's not a sporting event, as much as how the rest of the world's countries exist: with openly blatant corruption for the political consequences of referees' calls, along with the next game pay-backs for simllarly acknowledged slights Hey, the rest of the World hates the USA, more than our Precedent. Together, they'll do everything they can to change the rules in mid-play, and grid us down. World Cup Soccer is openly biased and corrupt - as such, it serves as a valuable training ground.

Posted by: nonesuch at June 18, 2010 02:56 PM (vXagV)

110 Hugh Hewitt said it best, "If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat". He was talking about Democrats, but it applies equally well to foreign America haters.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 18, 2010 03:03 PM (DsU01)

111 This is total BULLSHIT!! USA! USA! USA! USA!

Wait, soccer? huh.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy's Gristle Encased Head at June 18, 2010 03:10 PM (+lsX1)

112 A good movie to see if you like soccer is A Shot at Glory, and if you like Robert Duvall his Scottish accent is a friggin' riot.

Posted by: ontherocks at June 18, 2010 03:10 PM (HBqDo)

113

Enh, I'm actually hoping Slovenia beats England and Algeria beats the US. Not that I particularly want the English or us to lose, I'm just in favor of anything that makes a tournament look lame.

It'll never happen, but my dream championship game would be North Korea against New Zealand. The collective "Awww, who gives a fuck, we might as well go to work today" from every soccer fan on the planet would be amusing.

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at June 18, 2010 03:14 PM (kmEfr)

114 If the ball is open behind the last defender and you outrun, out maneuver, out play that last defender, then you cannot be offside. It does not matter if the ball arrived by kick as a pass or a field clear or even a throw in. It only matters that the ball gets there before you do.

And now for another secret of soccer - there are no do overs. What the ref rules stands. I've seen many games ruined by incompetent refs interrupting the play, taking the momentum, and NOT COUNTING THE NUMBER OF PLAYERS ON THE FIELD.

Good job team USA. We know who won the game. That's what's important when you go to sleep tonight.

Posted by: Blacksmith8 at June 18, 2010 03:20 PM (P/zxG)

115 Heh, I always liked "smear the queer's" name when played in gym class: "Kill the man with the ball". That probably riles up Lefties even worse.....

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at June 18, 2010 03:20 PM (kmEfr)

116 nonesuch at 116 is right. FIFA has always been a corrupt organization. Team USA getting ripped off by referees is nothing new, in fact I've come to expect it over the years. I'm fresh out of outrage about it since it's been going on for so long.

Team USA should do what we used to do when a ref was blowing calls. We would play the ball wherever the ref was and ram into him, kick the ball at him, slide-tackle him, fall on him, and target him at every opportunity. It never took long for his calls to become fair. Soccer can be very physical - try taking a free kick to the face or getting elbowed in the face every time the ball gets near you. Start "accidentally" beating up referees and the BS calls will stop...guaranteed.

Posted by: CR at June 18, 2010 03:22 PM (Ob6kZ)

117

as it's somehow wrong to cultivate an appreciation of a sport not based on the sport itself but out of patriotic sentiment and wishing your fellow countrymen to do well.

I've heard numerous libs express their dumfoundedness at the backward concept of "patriotism."

So I guess they don't get the concept of "family ties," either.

Posted by: dum blond at June 18, 2010 03:23 PM (gbCNS)

118 Soccer: the only sport that can make golf look exciting.

Posted by: Ignatz D. Mouse at June 18, 2010 03:31 PM (cekJT)

119 European Handball is a game that would catch on here if it got more exposure.

Posted by: damian at June 18, 2010 03:50 PM (4WbTI)

120 I think the USA futbol foosball Soccer Team would have won if we just had a decent running game. If you can't run the ball, you can't win.

Posted by: GulfCoastTider at June 18, 2010 03:56 PM (Ez14j)

121 Kickball???
Seriously???
KICKBALL?????

Gah.

Posted by: antisocialist at June 18, 2010 03:59 PM (Rwudm)

122 I could have called this on the USA Slovenia thread (my discarded conjoined twin told me we'd only get three and that the third would be rescinded by one of the worst World Cup calls people can remember. I chose not to listen to that deformed freak. And to think, that would have made me a legend on the global sports scene and my little brother Lupe would have a world famous one-name, too. Oops. Sorry about that Lupe.

Posted by: Pele at June 18, 2010 04:06 PM (Epj2t)

123 And this is why Americans avoid watching games that foreigners run.

Posted by: Mikey NTH at June 18, 2010 04:22 PM (nlRuk)

124

For some reason people seem to think that if you like soccer you hate football, basketball or baseball. It is just a different viewing experience, thats all.

Just because some crank obummer commies hate everything american it doesn't mean soccer is part of anti american sentiment to destroy typical american culture and sports.

It could be if commies or islamists hijack and politicise the sport like they try with every thing that will serve their purposes. They only can if people let them get away with it.

Even the NFL would not let Rush become a owner of a team.Now how pussy commie is that for your taste?

Posted by: gdg at June 18, 2010 04:31 PM (JS+7s)

125 http://tinyurl.com/33lw39d

Posted by: gdg at June 18, 2010 04:38 PM (JS+7s)

126 http://tinyurl.com/2t7c4z

Posted by: gdg at June 18, 2010 04:41 PM (JS+7s)

127 Sorry about first link.

Posted by: gdg at June 18, 2010 04:41 PM (JS+7s)

128 Has anyone here said I hate fucking soccer, yet? No? Consider it done.

Posted by: billygoat at June 18, 2010 04:42 PM (5qJM5)

129 SOCCER???...FUCK THAT SHIT! IT'S AMERICAN FOOTBALL YOU SHITHEADS!!!

Posted by: Frank Booth at June 18, 2010 04:44 PM (5qJM5)

130

Soccer, the game where the players spend as much of the time kicking each other as they do kicking the ball, and they also excell in faking injury.

Posted by: czekmark at June 18, 2010 04:48 PM (SMyC3)

131 Love soccer. Really love football and baseball. Love hockey and really like baseball when the Rockets are playing. These things are not mutually exclusive and I have never seen the attitude that they were before. How do I know you're gay? You argue about which sport is "better" as if its a statement about who you are.

Posted by: Tommy V at June 18, 2010 04:52 PM (VqHU/)

132 and they also excell in faking injury.

Posted by: czekmark at June 18, 2010 08:48 PM (SMyC3)

Have you checked out our game?...we think you'll love it!!!

Posted by: THE NBA at June 18, 2010 04:53 PM (5qJM5)

133 Damn it, totally ruined my effect by typing baseball instead of basketball. I thought i had a clever moment too.

Posted by: Tommy V at June 18, 2010 04:55 PM (VqHU/)

134 Yeah, the flopping is pretty horrible. The least attractive thing about soccer. Its like watching the Utah Jazz play themselves over and over again.

Posted by: Tommy V at June 18, 2010 04:56 PM (VqHU/)

135 142 Damn it, totally ruined my effect by typing baseball instead of basketball. I thought i had a clever moment too.

Posted by: Tommy V at June 18, 2010 08:55 PM (VqHU/)

That's OK -- we let shit like that go by all the time!

Posted by: Ace's Editors at June 18, 2010 04:58 PM (5qJM5)

136 Andy Van Hellemond called. he said even he would have called a penalty there.

Posted by: Otto Zilch at June 18, 2010 05:47 PM (JyNpR)

137 hopefully this will be the last comment on this thread...i simply say....

go steelers....my beloved home team.

Posted by: str8 outta at June 18, 2010 05:50 PM (zaGPI)

138
Fucking cheaters

Posted by: Macaroon at June 18, 2010 05:55 PM (F6+/O)

139 I think the call was dangerous play for too many man on the ground. I counted five of our guys who got wrestled to the ground. Two others eluded their captors and one of them scored. Was it Donovan's ball? Perfect service. Re: The World's Game. It's a minor sport in the US, China, and athletically hapless India. 3 billion people say big deal- and that's three countries who don't have to play anyone to get in to the World Cup. Let's call it The Euro-Latin Game.

Posted by: t-bird at June 18, 2010 05:55 PM (GFhBu)

140 I'd like to give that corrupt ref's head a full-swing, put-it-in-the-bleachers shot with a Boog Powell Louisville Slugger. Cheating, lying bastard deserves worse than that, actually.

Posted by: mac at June 18, 2010 06:42 PM (CzB/V)

141 Hmmmm.

The US team was guilty guilty guilty .... of playing soccer while American.

Watching the videos of the opposing team basically tackling, grappling, fondling and sexually abusing the American team while the ref didn't bother with a call.

Who really gives a flying fuck? It's soccer. Fuck it. Fuck them. Fuck the world.

I'll take American football.

Posted by: memomachine at June 18, 2010 08:48 PM (MwCol)

142

That idiot at The Nation (and NPR) whined that if the United States was doing well at the World Cup, all of us wingnuts would rally around them and root our little fascist hearts out.

Shows what a clueless turd that cocksucker is; I hate soccer so fucking much that I'd prefer the USA team to suck ass just because it would get the bandwagon douches pissed off. Whoever that idiot is can go back to sucking Katranny van den Hooter's dick. Loving soccer is hating America.

Posted by: Captain Hate at June 19, 2010 06:04 AM (uUgFj)

143 Watch Brazil. They play some serious futbol.

Posted by: Futbol Fan at June 20, 2010 11:31 AM (sYrWB)

144 Yankees/Mets on one channel, Brazil on another - Happy Father's Day

Posted by: Yankees Fan at June 20, 2010 11:35 AM (sYrWB)

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