I've never seen so many

Note: If you haven't watched the Ghana - USA match yet, and are planning to do so, do not read on.

sad faces in the same room. The local pub, which has been opening at 6am for the past two weeks in order to show the World Cup games, was completely filled with fans supporting the US in the US/Ghana match. A small corner had Italian fans watching their game, but the result for the Italy/Czech game was sorta expected. Who would have expected that the US could not even win ONE game, considering how well they did the last time around. But then again, who would have believed that France could mess up TWO World cups in a row, or that England would find tough competition in T&T. So while the Ghanian fans enjoyed every moment of the match, the US fans, as they have done in the other two games, watched the matches with serious faces, with infrequent comments such as "comon" ... "yeah, you can do it." Anyway, so the US lost, its fans were more than just dissapointed, it is out of the World Cup, and ESPN/ABC probably regret ever deciding to put on the World Cup, considering that they don't get as much advertising income from it as they would from, well, NFL.

Some groups of fans are fun to watch, even if you don't support their team. T&T fans are such a group; even though they lost vs. England, they kept jumping around, but the English fans did not change their expression between the time the score was 0 - 0 and 2 - 0. Tunisian fans, happy that they were originally 1 - 0 against Spain, paused slightly when Spain scored 2 goal in five minutes, then continued banging away at the derbake. And why does everyone think they know better than the players/coach. "He should have kicked the ball to the left," " he should have shot at the upper left corner giving the ball a spin and aiming at the post so that it bounces into the goal" are just some comments that some fans repeatedly utter. And then you have corny ESPN statistics such as "Argentina has never lost a game when at some point it had a two-goal difference" or "this is the 4th time England made that pass at that angle" and even cornier comments such as "Time is against the US team. The Score difference is also against the US team."

Anyway, I can't wait till the KSA-Spain match. I wonder who'll win ...

posted by Lazarus, 9:12 AM