Well whatever some US citizens think of football, there are thtee indisputable facts.
1. The Football World Cup now taking place in South Africa is the number one sporting event in the world with or without US participation.
2. A growing number of US citizens are taking up football (men women and children)
3. American citizens bought more tickets for this World Cup than any other nation.
I am sure the footballing world welcomes American to participate and as we have seen they have so far been very worthy of their countrymens support.

Viva Espana

LOL So much for them being the ones to beat, they put a lot of pressure on the Swiss but what a great win for Switzerland

Its getting interesting LOL

Ill post it before Ernie B does

Its still boring

Gaz
Everyone's first game in the world cup is always a defensive battle, teams go into the games with the "let's make sure we don't lose our first game" mentality. akin to the first round of a Heavyweight boxing match.

Who would have thought that none of England, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France could win a game and only score 2 goals between them.
None of the teams have really shown how they can play (except Germany but lets face it they were only playing the Aussies). Even Brazil struggled for 50 minutes to breakdown North Korea.

Now the competition really starts, things will open out. Teams will need to go for a win qualify for the next round I think we are going to see some very interesting games

I agree I have been really disappointed with the over defensive chess matches so far. We all hope for open, exciting, entertaining football but

So if all goes to plan its England to score 5 against Algeria and then another 4 against Slovenia
Mind you I would settle for 2 1-0 victories!!!

C'mon England

I'm with you swanno

well i don't know what you're putting in your coffee (5 v algeria and 4 v Slovenia ??) but can I have some? more to the point can you get some to our team?
Agree with your analysis. Its important not to peak too soon, there's a long way to go

Zzzzzzzz

I was not implying it was boring in my eyes Lads just I knew Ernie would post after that its all just to boring for him so thought I would save him the trouble LOL

Im quite enjoying the world cup but would enjoy it a lot more if we stick Algeria tommorow.

Looks like Ernies having a well deserved Nap

Gaz

GAZ
Algeria is ranked 30th--should be a walk in the park for ENG.
I am of Scottish decent so tomorrow I root for the Britts.
I was glad to see Chili win--first win in 48 years!!!They must have been bouncing off the walls down there in Santiago. They probably still are knowing how the latinos go!! Good for them. Manana here on the island with the MEX match there will be TV's in the streets and no one will come back to work from lunch if they win.