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[henrypie]

Yee-HAW!

for Klodolski.  Podose.  Pokloski. 
You get my point.

I love mah boys!!!!

[Lumière]

for Klodolski.  Podose.  Pokloski. 

  - Yap, point taken! 

[David In Indy]

Well, I am totally bummed out!

The Netherlands lost to Portugal today.

I might have to drown my tears in a few drinks tonight!

Well, I like England too, so I guess I'll be cheering for them now. Besides, David Beckham is awfully cute!

But, God, what happened today? When Portugal scored that goal I didn't really worry about it too much because it was so early in the game. Holland never recovered though. It was a vicious game too!

At least England is still in it.

I guess I am going to have to change my sig now!

[Pipedream]

Well, I am totally bummed out!

The Netherlands lost to Portugal today.

I might have to drown my tears in a few drinks tonight!

Well, I like England too, so I guess I'll be cheering for them now. Besides, David Beckham is awfully cute!

But, God, what happened today? When Portugal scored that goal I didn't really worry about it too much because it was so early in the game. Holland never recovered though. It was a vicious game too!

At least England is still in it.

I guess I am going to have to change my sig now!

Too bad, your team dropped out of the tournament, David! The Dutch fans were really funny people! About 1.000 of them camped in Wertheim-Bestenheid, about an hour from where I live.



But you are right. That game was truly vicious! Spiegel-Online wrote:

MATCH REPORT
Portugal Defeats Holland at the Battle of Nuremberg
Portugal defeated the Netherlands 1-0 on Sunday in an utterly bizarre World Cup match marred by a plethora of fouls, yellow cards and four ejections. The depleted Portuguese squad will now meet England in the quarter-finals.

Call it the Battle of Nuremberg. Portugal defeated the Netherlands in a nasty and ill-tempered 1-0 brawl on Sunday that saw both teams have two players sent off. Russian referee Valentin Ivanov brandished a record 20 cards in total -- 16 of them yellow -- as Portugal scraped through to extend coach Luiz Felipe Scolari's record World Cup winning streak to 11 matches.

Ugly scenes marred the match as first Costinha, then Khalid Boulahrouz, then Deco and finally Giovanni van Bronckhorst saw red.
[...]
The disciplinary nightmare ruined a promising encounter between two of the tournament's promising teams which had amassed 32 matches unbeaten between them. It was Marco van Basten's first competitive defeat as Dutch coach and leaves the Netherlands still waiting for their first win against Portugal since 1991.
[...]

[Pipedream]

Some more Lukas Podolski for Sarah: 





Poor Swedish fans... 

[Pipedream]

Bad news for our Aussies:   

Italy - Australia: 1:0

[Lumière]

Bad news for our Aussies:   

Italy - Australia: 1:0

Poor Aussies! 

I bet Giancarlo is somewhere celebrating the Italian victory though ...

[Giancarlo]

Poor Aussies! 

I bet Giancarlo is somewhere celebrating the Italian victory though ...

Well I'm not really. Italy lost a defender... I really think the refs in this game are making bad calls. I think they made plenty of bad calls during the Portugal/Holland game. Deco DID NOT DESERVE THAT RED CARD!

[Pipedream]

Awww!  

[Giancarlo]

What the hell is wrong with these refs?  I am so angry.