World Cup
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Anyone watching? ML is fairly well represented with USA, Australia and England all playing - although all three may go out in the first phase.
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Not really watching.... don't even have television. But rooting for Italia.
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yup, watched the france/honduras game, and the costa rica/uraguay game and will of course be watching the us/ghana game tonight
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No games on broadcast tv, so hard for me to watch.
Japan lost their group game against the Ivory Coast. -
@JaredBusch said:
No games on broadcast tv, so hard for me to watch.
Japan lost their group game against the Ivory Coast.every few days there are games on ABC: http://www.espnfc.us/#fifa-world-cup/4/scores?season=2014
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I want to watch, need to find somewhere to do so though.
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At the Little Pub watching with @Minion-Queen 'a brother now.
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It is so weird @scottalanmiller that you see my brother more than I do.
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@david.wiese said:
@JaredBusch said:
No games on broadcast tv, so hard for me to watch.
Japan lost their group game against the Ivory Coast.every few days there are games on ABC: http://www.espnfc.us/#fifa-world-cup/4/scores?season=2014
I just learned that the ESPN app (iOS and AppleTV) that verifies your provider must be really poorly written. I put in my info and the app authenticated. The problem is I have internet service only through the provider. No TV service. Just. Went through the All the apps on the AppleTV and tried to authenticate most. HBO and the AE family of channels do not list Charter and thus cannot verify. I suspect because they have realized that Charter must not be passing the right info about the customer..
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@Minion-Queen said:
It is so weird @scottalanmiller that you see my brother more than I do.
Lol. Yup, pretty weird.
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that was a pretty awesome game last night with the US v Ghana. Dempsy scored in 32 seconds, bad news altidore might be out with a strained hamstring which is being scanned today to confirm. Dempsy possible broken nose, besler with a possible hamstring issue, bedoya with some ailment. Beyond being a little banged up there is plenty of rest until the portugal game on sunday.
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I'm watching a little when I have time. More interesting now that the US did not get knocked out by Ghana.
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USA pretty awesome. Showing us Europeans how to do it!
Not sure about Klinsman's jumper last night though!
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Big game tonight! I was thinking of supporting USA in solidarity with my new friends on Mango Lassi, but if you lot aren't really that fussed I might not bother. The trouble with USA becoming too good at football is that the next thing you know we'll have ad-breaks every ten minutes and clubs will become franchises
It should be a cracking game.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Big game tonight! I was thinking of supporting USA in solidarity with my new friends on Mango Lassi, but if you lot aren't really that fussed I might not bother. The trouble with USA becoming too good at football is that the next thing you know we'll have ad-breaks every ten minutes and clubs will become franchises
It should be a cracking game.
Americans do not, as a rule, care about football. It's not a sport here. And the US dislikes global games that's why we make up local games so we can just play against ourselves.
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Currently rooting for Switzerland and Germany now that Italia is out.
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@scottalanmiller i beg to differ sir. With the world cup going on ESPN servers crashed due to the influx of online stream requests last Thursday. Soccer (football) is getting more and more popular. Do you see the coverage of the viewing parties where they shut down streets and it is jam packed? I think your comment was very short sided since the US does in fact care about global games.
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Officially, USA is the second best supported team in the World Cup after Brazil. That's based on ticket sales by nationality. However, many of those US nationals may actually be supporting other teams like Mexico.
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Rooting for Netherlands here.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Officially, USA is the second best supported team in the World Cup after Brazil. That's based on ticket sales by nationality. However, many of those US nationals may actually be supporting other teams like Mexico.
Mostly expats living in the US. And I'm American supporting Italy like many. Also unfair as the US is enormous compared to say The Netherlands. And Brasil is a major travel destination from here too.
