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It was indeed a great final game!! Very entertaining, lot's of attacking football. Both teams played well and both looked dangerous. Brazil deserved the win, though, for finding a way to crack Germany's tough defense twice. And for its more consistent and dangerous attacking in the 2nd half...

Or Ping Pong! Surely this is the world's most popular sport!! :rolleyes:

Looks like they will be getting Spain in round 2. Looking forward to watching that!

If you could take the top four candidates for worst team in this world cup and put them in their own group (call it group Z) and then have them play a mini round-robin tournament, who would finish last? That team is your worst team of this world cup. My vote remains Saudi Arabia, 0 - 12...

I agree. It is really unnecessary to refer to it as anything other than the World Cup. This is similar to how Major League Baseball refers to their final championship series as the World Series (and, please everybody, I am not interested in starting a debate in this thread about the...

I think Owen was fouled and the penalty was deserved. I also think he did embelish it a bit, but the foul did occur and the call was correct. The same play would have been called a foul outside the box, but defenders just cannot afford to flail as aggressively inside the penalty area. If...

Yes, I thought both of them were offside. And even if you say the goal scorer was not offside, the other player was and I disagree that he was not involved in the play. He was at the rear post in the box when offside, and this influenced both the keeper and the defenders. But, Russia has no...

Well, of course it is a translation. It is the expression of the same concept in a different language. But languages are mutable so that, although two or three nations may speak the same language, they do not always use the same terms. I'm assuming you're from England. I'm from the USA. We...

You mean like Americans calling Deutschland "Germany"? Its a completely different name, that's for sure. Definately sounds different from "doych-land" I would say. I don't know of anyone condemning us for calling that country by a different name, though. I guess most folks understand that...

(I know the above is a troll, but...) What do the Koreans call the sport? The Japanese? Chinese? Germans? Mexicans? Russians? When I watch soccer/futball/football/Fußball/Футбол on the Spanish stations here, they list the national teams playing by the...

I agree that, with games left to play, a final determination cannot be made. But, right now the (dis)honor is the Saudi's to lose. ;)

At the rate things are going, France may find themselves counted among the worst teams of this World Cup. Two games, 0 goals, 0-1-1, and facing their final 1st round game w/o Henry and probably w/o Zidane. This from a suposedly world-class team. USA are not among the worst here. They will...

Yeah, and goals against the U.S. are also caused by bad defending. :rolleyes: Way to go USA!!!

I vote Henry II. He turned England into a world power. (Note: I'm talking about Henry with a II, not a VIII. :) )

Genghis Kahn stopped killing because he died. He and his Mongol hoardes were poised to invade Egypt when he died and it was this that effectively stopped their expansion. When they conquered a city, they demanded total capitulation and, if it was not received, they slaughtered every soul in...