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  3. 3.

    Alex S.

    2-1 Uruguay… good bye England! (though I found them surprisingly agile against Italy)

  4. 4.

    Morzer

    The Uruguayan anthem sounds like something Gilbert and Sullivan couldn’t quite fit into the Mikado.

  5. 5.

    HumboldtBlue

    England’s gonna win this one, Uruguay melts down and Suarez bites a teammate, kicks the ref but also scores three touchdowns, intercepts two passes and make a late field goal to no avail.

  8. 8.

    Morzer

    @HumboldtBlue:

    Mozart would have rolled over and died.. or possibly dived.. before committing such an atrocity against music. No, it belongs somewhere between The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring and A More Humane Mikado.

  10. 10.

    Tone in DC

    @Morzer:

    Greg Louganis couldn’t dive as much as the Cup’s players, even if we cloned him a la Orphan Black.

  11. 11.

    HumboldtBlue

    Jogo dos desperados, according to Darkie (and can they please refrain from calling him Darkie, it just sounds wrong)

  13. 13.

    Tone in DC

    @? Martin:

    Let Texas secede, first. Once all the folks who wanted to get the hell out, from Austin and most of the cities, reached a safe distance, of course. Say, in Maryland or Virginia.

    The vortex of unencumbered winguttery would be a sight to behold, like a terra-based version of Cosmos.

  14. 14.

    Alex S.

    @Alex S.:

    Though actually, England still has a chance if Italy beats Costa Rica and Uruguay, and England beats Costa Rica.

  18. 18.

    Paul in KY

    I’m thinking/hoping the lads get it done today. Nothing against Uruguay though. Wonderful how such a small country is a football power.

  21. 21.

    scav

    @catclub: I suppose that would depend on the team. I’m suddenly amused by the contrast between Corinthians, Regency England meaning, the more Epistle-based Corinthians and how they both fail utterly with what’s likely to evolve here.

    ETA actually, the Vision of Paul running about handing red and yellow cards to the various congregations actually rather works . . .

  25. 25.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    I’m listening to the radio rather than watching it. Are the Uruguayans playing as thuggish as the ESPN Radio guys are making it sound?

  29. 29.

    SarahT

    Totally OT but totally hilarious (from Gawker): “The Florida doomsday survivalist and “River Otter Preppers” chief, who was on the lam from the FBI in connection with a plan to kill federal agents with guns and explosives, agreed to surrender Wednesday in exchange for “dry shoes, Gatorade, a couple of cheeseburgers and some French fries.””

  30. 30.

    Tony J

    And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why even a slightly less than match fit Luis Suarez is such a terror.

    But England really should have dealt with that. 3 against 6 shouldn’t be a problem.

  31. 31.

    Corner Stone

    Uruguay has long been my backup country if I ever have to BugOut of the US.
    So go, my compatriots! Beat the bloody British!

  36. 36.

    Alex S.

    Looks like Wayne Rooney will become the least successful striker in english national soccer history….

  45. 45.

    Alex S.

    @Morzer:

    He scored in the 2002 World Cup against Denmark though (had to check Wikipedia for that). Rooney is still at zero world cup goals.

  46. 46.

    Morzer

    “If Costa Rica can, England can” is not so much clutching at straws as fondling a haystack.

  47. 47.

    burnspbesq

    With Hannibal playing against five of his Liverpool teammates, there’s a pretty good chance he won’t be dining until after the match. At least Brendan Rogers hopes so.

  50. 50.

    Morzer

    @SRW1:

    It’s the hope that kills sports fans. Total despair means they can enjoy games without being distracted.

  51. 51.

    SRW1

    @burnspbesq:

    Might depend on how Suarez’s rumored talks with Real are going. He persuaded Ajax to release him by his first incidence of feasting on an opponent.

  53. 53.

    burnspbesq

    @SRW1:

    Suarez would be an idiot to go to Real. He’ll never play.

    And someday UEFA is going to wake up and realize that Real are the biggest violators of FFP.

  55. 55.

    eric

    It is quite clear that the failure of the English to mount any serious threat toward winning the Cup is part of Hillary’s attempts to sell her book by distracting American anglophiles from Benghazi. That, or they suck ass.

  58. 58.

    SRW1

    @burnspbesq:

    I don’t know, the branding strategy of Real appears to requires that they make the most expensive deal for a player every season. And Benzema may have become an outstanding striker, but from the Real branding pov he was too cheap.

  61. 61.

    SRW1

    @burnspbesq:

    Well, in defense of Man City you got to say that their regular domestic player is a bit hampered by the fact that he’s a goalie.

  66. 66.

    NotMax

    Whoa. Sticker shock to da max.

    Paged through the weekly flyer from a local supermarket. Sale prices are higher than were the non-sale prices on same items a month ago, pretty much across the board.

  73. 73.

    scav

    @raven: Agreed. Although I’d class myself as indifferent, I just like how it will complexity the retroactive backseat coaching.

  82. 82.

    SarahT

    @gbear: Love Ian MacLagen – got the opportunity to meet him many years ago (100 % G- Rated, sorry) and he was just a pleasure to be around. Link to the song, by any chance ?

  83. 83.

    Amir Khalid

    I really don’t care so much for international football — it’s just a distraction from the club game, really — but I’m glad Luis Suarez is recovering nicely from his knee operation.

  88. 88.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @SarahT:

    Let me disabuse you of any notion that I might have come up with that on my own. Roo’s had that…Uhm…In his ears for years.

  91. 91.

    NotMax

    Sometimes things come along which fairly scream out for front page mockery.

    Beginning in about 2005, the CIA began secretly developing a custom-made Osama bin Laden action figure, according to people familiar with the project. The faces of the figures were painted with a heat-dissolving material, designed to peel off and reveal a red-faced bin Laden who looked like a demon, with piercing green eyes and black facial markings.
     
    The goal of the short-lived project was simple: spook children and their parents, causing them to turn away from the actual bin Laden. Source

  95. 95.

    HumboldtBlue

    You must give it to Uruguay, 3.5 million people and they remain a world power

  101. 101.

    Hawes

    This game is a powerful argument against the culture of time wasting. If it was 88 degrees and humid, fine, but Uruguay have milked every noogie and hicky into a near amputation.

    At least this isn’t on Rooney. It’s on the English defense.

  104. 104.

    SRW1

    @raven:

    There were a lot of interuptions in the first half of the US game and the five min added then didn’t look out of place. In the second half there weren’t nearly as many interuptions and nontheless adding 5 min looked a bit exessive.

  106. 106.

    Morzer

    Interestingly, if Italy beat Costa Rica, then an Italy win against Uruguay and an England win against Costa Rica would see, yes.. Italy and England advance.

  108. 108.

    Morzer

    @raven:

    Your friend is actually wrong about that. It’s entirely plausible that Italy beat both Costa Rica and Uruguay – meaning that an England win over Costa Rica (stop laughing there at the back!) would mean England qualifying on goal difference.

  109. 109.

    scav

    @Morzer: So that explains my new favorite of Guardian liveblog

    The referee blows the final whistle and England’s World Cup dream is not quite mathematically over!

  110. 110.

    gbear

    @SarahT: I linked to the full interview. The ‘England’ song is towards the end of the interview.

    Edit: and now I see that you’ve found the link. I went away for a while and didn’t read down before responding.

  111. 111.

    SRW1

    @Calouste:

    I see, consensus is that the header came from Gerrard, not an Argentinian player. Second such blunder by Gerrard this season. The Guardian calls it Gerrard 2, England 1.

    Looks like most likely the second international carrier that ended on a rather bitter note at this World cup.

  112. 112.

    Violet

    @Morzer: The post-game analysis guys were just saying it puts England fans in the odd position of cheering for Italy.

  114. 114.

    SRW1

    @Morzer:

    A bit like Barcelonas chances to still be in the race for the title in La Liga after their second last game. And it happened.

  119. 119.

    burnspbesq

    It might be interesting to be a fly on the wall in the locker room before Liverpool’s first pre-season practice.

  122. 122.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @Ronnie Pudding: Well, definitely no one claimed that it hit an Argentinian player. Though that would be an awesome controversy to have right now.

  123. 123.

    Morzer

    @Amir Khalid:

    Arguably, nor do Uruguay. There’s a decent case for Costa Rica being the most deserving team, along with Italy, although I have trouble believing that things will fall their way.

    Anyway, as you know, the math demands it!

  125. 125.

    Ronnie Pudding

    @SRW1: No big deal. On ESPN radio, they were convinced it was offside, but never even mentioned that it might have gone off of Gerrard.

  127. 127.

    burnspbesq

    If you combine all of the eight groups into a single 32-team table, Spain is currently dead last, with no points and a goal difference of -6. Netherlands is in first with six points and a goal difference of +5, followed by Colombia and Chile with six points and +4. The USA is in a six-way tie for ninth.

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