HerrB/

Well I said it could be 3-0 to Germany but I am not sure that the score (so far) is really the score that it should be...
Let me update that!!!
*sigh*
(Australia ARE a better team on their day than this display)

Müüüüüüüülller!!!!

WTF???

...and that was a ridiculous decision by the ref. Without Cahill there is no chance now. Very, very harsh!

Right-Wingers Have Nothing Better to Do Than Be Pissed Off About the World Cup

Much like the Olympics, the Right Wing Noise Machine sees the FIFA World Cup in South Africa as something to despise, hate, and otherwise ignore as an event “Real Americans” don’t tolerate.  Glennsanity:

“It doesn’t matter how you try to sell it to us, it doesn’t matter how many celebrities you get, it doesn’t matter how many bars open early, it doesn’t matter how many beer commercials they run, we don’t want the World Cup, we don’t like the World Cup, we don’t like soccer, we want nothing to do with it.”

 G. Gordon Liddy throws in too:

Whatever happened to American exceptionalism?” Liddy noted that “this game … originated with the South American Indians and instead of a ball, they used to use the head, the decapitated head, of an enemy warrior.”

Which is funny, because I hear that whole decapitated head thing is how basketball got started, not soccer.  Oh wait, that’s increasingly becoming a “not a Real American” sport either, along with football and baseball.  Add World Cup soccer fans to the growing list of people who aren’t Real Americans.  Funny how that list keeps growing larger and larger seemingly every day as those team sports become more and more racially and ethnically diverse…increasingly at the ownership level, and that’s really got the Wingers pissed off.
But that’s how it works.  Constantly redefine what’s allowable and what’s not, separate us from the rest of the world through the rah-rah protectionist policies of “American exceptionalism” and declare since the USA have never won the World Cup, it simply doesn’t matter.  It’s a sport played by Socialist weirdos, third-world hellholes and Evil Brown People, so into the Other pile you World Cup fans go.
Sports is just American dominance waged on a different battlefield to them.  Except for the sports that don’t matter, like soccer.  I mean North Korea and Mexico are in it.  It must be eeeeeeeeevil New World Order stuff, right?

zandar @'AlterNet'

...and that was def a penalty!

Very true!

LuckenbachTX

I know if #aus were playing #eng , they wouldn't be 2-0 down, like they are against #ger

FUGNHELL!!!

exilestreet Bugger!!! #Aus #WorldCup A high scoring game maybe? #Ger less than 5 seconds ago via web

exilestreet Here we go, here we go, here...Carn you Aussies #Aus #WorldCup less than 5 seconds ago via web

Schlaaaaand!!!!

HerrB/

Bloody hell! 

You laughed about Australia being called the Socceroos the other day and yet I have just discovered that yr team is called the Man Shaft!!!

Hmmm...

Where Are The World Cup Goals?

exilestreet
Need a crate of 'Um Bongo' to keep me awake for the #Aus game #WorldCup less than 5 seconds ago via web

Shurely shome mishtake!

Politicians set to tackle Liverpool FC ownership issue in Parliament

Labour MPs have tabled an Early Day Motion for Parliament to debate the ongoing ownership problems at Liverpool FC. Six Merseyside politicians have expressed their dismay at George Gillett and Tom Hicks' tenure following three years of unrest at Anfield, with the club currently owing in excess of £237million to the Government-owned Royal Bank of Scotland.
A proposal by Steve Rotherham (Walton), Alison McGovern (Wirral South), Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood), Dave Watts (St Helens North) and Bill Esterson (Sefton Central) has been backed by several politicians, including recently-elected Wavertree MP Luciana Berger.
Cllr Rotheram replaced Peter Kilfoyle in May as the MP for the Walton constituency where the club's Anfield stadium is located and was highly supportive of the commemorations for last year's 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster in his role as Lord Mayor of Liverpool.
Kilfoyle, who retired after 19 years as the area's representative, supported an Early Day Motion in 2008 which called on the then Government to prevent RBS. who are 60% state-owned, extending their loan agreement with Gillett and Hicks.
The latest EDM encourages discussion with supporter organisations such as Spirit of Shankly and ShareLiverpoolFC about how politicians can help steer the club in the right direction with the Americans' promises of a new stadium in Stanley Park showing no signs of being fulfilled.
It states: "This House expresses its dismay at the failure of the American owners of Liverpool Football Club to exercise responsible stewardship of the club; notes the departure of the outgoing manager Rafael Benitez; regrets the failure to fulfil promises of a new stadium; supports consultation and engagement with supporters' groups; and looks to an early change of ownership and a positive strategy to take the club forward."
This week it emerged that Hicks' refusal to lower his valuation of £800million for the club scuppered two potential sales to investors described by sources at Barclays Capital, who are aiding the search for new owners, as "perfect fit".

Richard Buxton @'Click Liverpool'