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DEL.ICIO.USBiggest U.S. game ever?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
That’s the question ESPN’s Rece Davis asked Eric Wynalda this morning, referring to the Italy match.
What was Waldo supposed to say? Of course he said yes! Fact is the Worldwide Leader in Sports has to do something to compel people to watch. Not those of us who would watch anyway, but the casual American sports fan to whom they’re gearing their coverage.
Fans used to watching what Waldo famously once referred to as “hot dog” sports, games at which “they can sit on their asses and eat hot dogs.”
Well, Waldo, I’m going to sit on mine and have a couple brews at a nearby oasis of The Beautiful Game, then will return here to recap the vivisection, er, USA-Italy match.
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By Chris
June 17, 2006 2:30 PM | Link to this
Johnson not in the starting XI? Unacceptable!
By Chop Chop
June 17, 2006 4:01 PM | Link to this
Well, it’s been a strange one so far.
1-1 at halftime.
Own goal. Two red cards (One richly deserved, one not so much…Mastroeni should’ve received a yellow, but he didn’t have to make a two-footed challenge there. He gave the ref an excuse to send him off when he shouldn’t have.). The U.S. are playing like they have some cojones.
The most important question is: Can they get a point out of this…or will they fall on their face in the second half?
By Chop Chop
June 17, 2006 5:04 PM | Link to this
1-1 draw.
The U.S. really should have won this game…and they only had nine men. Amazing. To get a point with all the b.s. that went on is a great result.
I can’t read Italian, but I bet their newspapers will be extra spicy in the morning.