Stat of the day:

USA group wins in FIFA World Cups held in countries without shitloads of vuvzelas: 0

USA group wins in FIFA World Cups held in countries with shitloads of vuvzelas: 1

Fin.

A great goal indeed,wish I wasn’t working this morning and missed it. 

Also,with England advancing,I hope England Fan stops hating on Robert Green.

I’m sorry you had to give the Dutch guy your wife’s sister to get him to go home, but no price is too high to get your regular life back. We missed you.

I had two beers for breakfast. I am sleeping now! Everyone be quiet.

We should have put the game away SO many times. On to the 2nd round!

Best sports moment since it got by Buckner, it got by Buckner.

In other footie matters, I’m glad in an uninterested fashion that the England team seems to have realised that the point is to actually win on occasion.

And now it’s Ghana on Saturday preceded by what should be another amazing match between England and Germany.

I will say this, this is the most skilled and the most enjoyable U.S. team we have ever fielded. Likeable, humble players who can run for days, show consistent creativity along with consistent lapses in concentration and make watching a nail-biting-heart-in-your-throat experience.

Say, whatever happened to Freddy Adu?

Having watched the replay about 40 times now, I believe that call from whomever the lead commentator was will go down alongside Al Michaels’ 1980 hockey call in the win over the Soviets as a landmark on the sporting green.

HB: I think, to be honest, that while the USA has improved over past performances, in a crowd of more consistent (and more in character) teams, they wouldn’t stand out as much special.

That said, in the current bizarre environment of teams which suddenly and without warning forget how to play football (I’m looking at you, Rooney, you damn dirty ape), they’ve been doing well and playing a little more consistently than most.

I’ve just run my tail off for 90 minutes, but F-U!, I’m Batman, and I’m gonna sprint the length of the field and jam the ball down your throat.—Donovan to Algeria

Yeah baby!

And Mike, Rooney would perfer you called him Shrek!

I’m just glad we see Ghana, who probably don’t have the organization to follow directions by their coaching staff to exploit our gapping holes in the middle.  If we give the average Algerian 20+ yards of space in the middle outside our box, how much do you think we’ll give everyone else in the field of 16?

The Germans will embarass the Brits.

I’m just a bit worried we gave up on the Torres experiment too easily, why put the dude there to add a dymanic element to the mid-field (aka find a point guard that can get the ball from our defensive 1/3 without the Lalas days longballs or tight roping the sidelines in a pathetic euro version of “width”) if you’re only gonna allow Bradley to get in his way?  I mean I’m a Bradley fan and all, but he was as nervous as a hunchback at a limbo contest with the ball at his feet in traffic at the midfield and our defensive 1/3.

And Mike, Rooney would perfer you called him Shrek!

He is indeed a very ugly man.