Germany is looking good!!!      Argentina,Brazil   GONE!!!!!
But i'm going for Neitherland   

Even though the ref cheated us when we played Germany I dont hold that against Germany we were crap but at least we scored once if not twice bye bye Maradona

I think Germany will win even though id like Spain to do it.

I don't think that is possible,Semi-final yes,but not final.

Want to hear my problem with the English team?

We're gonna make German sausage in the final. 

...with sauce Hollandaise!

Yuck!

No No No No.....Viva Espa?a!!!

Too bad, no German sausage. We'll have to settle for paella. 

So who's going to win? Netherlands or Spain? The Sauce or the Paella?

Neitherlands  of course!!!!!!

HE JUST DID!!!!!

According to the oracle octopus Paul, it's Spain:

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(apparantly, the animal has predicted the outcome of all matches of the German team sofar)

BUT there was a psychic bird somewhere that said differently (I heard on the radio a Dutch sports commentator was grilling a squid on the BBQ after they announced the last prediction, but I couldn't find a clip of it)

I will be having Paella for supper, a good bottle of Argentine Malbec (they speak Spanish) and listening to Miles Davis's Sketches of Spain before kickoff.......will be drinking Mexican Tequila and Peruvian Pisco during the game (they speak Spanish).......SWMBO supports Spain!

They so often are.

Agreed. The only interesting part was the Netherlands self destructing and getting themselves so many yellows and one red. Heh, can anyone say "Flying kick"?

Ay caramba! 

He he, what a fruit cake.  Don't think beer makes you like that 

Nice find

Isn't every soccer game boring? I find it so hard to watch even when the US was wining games that were so called"exciting".

Can't wait for the NFL to start!

I grew up with soccer, my Ex father in law even coached and played in Austria in a pro league back in the day. So soccer was on TV constantly when I was a teen and into my early 30's.  Both his kids were in soccer in school and when I met her she was playing soccer. So really I did grow up with it. Chicago even had a soccer team that once was actually pretty popular, now not so much. Actually I think girls soccer is big(all my girls play or played) in the US and I even read that many girls come here to the US to play because there is more money involved(not sure how true that is).

I think the rest of the world has forgotten that there is cable and we have had access to and been watching all sorts of games since the early 80's. Of course I played soccer as a child as my kids do now, still football is NFL football to me.

I would rather watch Australian rules football or any rugby before soccer.

This last world cup has left a bad taste in my mouth. It seems the refs make calls based on their political views as much as actual penalties, at least this tournament. And it had nothing to do with the US, many other teams got screwed over from very strange calls. I only wish Netherlands (or is Dutch more appropriate) won.  

And I will never understand why the refs do not have to explain their calls, that probably is one of the biggest factors why it will never get big in the US, the refereeing is totally whack.

This is kind of weird,but watching Uruguay play,i was amazed by Diego Floran.Fantastic player.And i was thinking that he should get some kind of award for the way he has been scoring for his team.I just learn that he did get the golden ball award.