I'ma still listening to the World Cup on the radio (not having a tv)
I just won't go out to watch it anywhere I have to pay for drinks/ food etc after tomorrow.

Bumped into the landlady of the Rose & Crown on Sunday.
I've been the only person who has come in to watch both England matches, although there have been others at either one.
She asked if I'd be in on Tuesday and I felt oddly loyal to her. She's provided food for a non-existant surge in trading each time.

I expect she won't bother on Tuesday!

You have a USA team to begin supporting at any time now.

We're in the knockout round!

Even she of the Adam's apple feels the need to comment.
Our moral decay.

I can't EVEn...

I see how you snaked that in there.

Yorkshire humour.
Spotted this outside the Crossed Pipes pub

I know that I shouldn't, but...

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Chile/Brazil. What. A. Game.


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Smithsonian American Art Museum is getting ready for the game. Nice location to show it. A cavernous space that's air conditioned.
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Glatt, that's a gorge space to watch the footie!
Wish I was there. And that England had done as well as the US in this World Cup (even if I don't know the outcome of the USA-Belgium game writing this)

Please remember that English humour is oh so very highbrow and not everyone gets it.
It's not sillyness and sniggering at things which aren't really all that funny.

But anyway, we invented football so here is how it is supposed to be played.

Ste and I still reference Charles "Charlie" Charles (one of the famous Charles brothers) from time to time.

Howard was so good. Nice run 'merica.

That's why we don't need no buildn spectrs here in murca:bolt:

US vs Belgium was exciting. I admit after Belgium scored its second goal, I started cooking dinner. I turned it back on to see that US had scored! Watched the rest. It was an exciting game, lots of scoring chances, but it was obvious that the US didn't have the mad skillz (except for Howard).

You guys done good. Yeah, Tim Howard is a big plus for the team, but your guys' tenacity, and the extra legs they all grew in extra time, were very very impressive.

If they could have kept it tied, I bet we would have won with the kicks. Howard was that good.

Belgium played incredibly well though. No surprise that they won.

Yesterday at work, there was a pause in email traffic during the game. It matched up perfectly with the start of the game, the break after regular play and before overtime, and when the game finished. Maybe it's just coincidence, but it matched the game schedule perfectly.

Brasil 2 Colombia 1

Any conceits that America has closed the skills gap are gone. Colombia, especially James, played a beautiful, dangerous, wide open game Brasil looked a little tight at times but did the job. Klinsmann had our side playing an appropriate games for what we can do. We can't do what either of those teams can do. Now it is Germany v Brasil a contrast in styles that often leads commentators into the dangerous land of culture and race. Who will get fired at ESPN? :)