USA did very well, a draw against the German side will see them into the last 16. I won't hold my breath on that, but wish team USA all the best.
Sausage noshers?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Gob wrote:USA did very well, a draw against the German side will see them into the last 16. I won't hold my breath on that, but wish team USA all the best.
Sausage noshers?
We'll see...
A draw would see both sides safely through *nudge, nudge* *wink, wink*.
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
The English side might have had a different result, if only.
Company confuses Barack Obama with Chris Smalling on England team mug set
It's been a forgettable World Cup for England on the pitch. Off the pitch, one company is having a forgettable few days as well, as they had hoped to cash in on a successful tournament for The Three Lions, as the Sunday Express notes.
Among the English World Cup merchandise an unnamed British company had created featuring the likenesses of the English soccer team were a set of mugs that included one glaring error. You could purchase a Steven Gerrard or Joe Hart or Wayne Rooney, among others, but if you’re a big Chris Smalling fan, you might notice something a tad off about his appearance.
U.S. President Barack Obama does not play center back for Manchester United or the English national team.
Realizing its mistake, the company turned to online re-seller Wholesale Clearance UK to dump the error-filled inventory.
The item description explains what happened:
The Dorset company in question (whose blushes we shall protect for now....maybe!) was given the seemingly easy job of sourcing royalty free pictures of each England squad player to use on the England mugs – along with other accompanying items such as England coasters, England mouse mats etc. They passed this onto to their young, bright eyed and bushy tailed new apprentice. The designs were proofed and signed off by the Boss, who had clearly had a heavy night with the lads playing poker and before he’d had his first vat of coffee the following morning.
Due to our ongoing commitment to help local companies get their products noticed, last Wednesday 2,000 of each of the England items came into the warehouse. We eagerly unpacked them and on close inspection it turned out that the Chris Smalling cup had Barack Obama’s head on instead of Chris’s.
The apprentice claims that he used that well known search engine, Google, to source the pictures. The thing is he’s more of a rugby fan and not very clued up on football. Suffice to say that when he Google image searched ‘Chris Smalling’ he copied the first picture he liked the look of and the result was that the President of the United States has ended up on an England cup instead of the English defender.
So, if you would like to purchase 2,000 Obama England national team mugs, it will run you £2,000. They're bound to be collector's items by now.
Yes, after a bright start we'd have scored a couple of own goals.....
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
US fans were left downcast by a last-minute Portugal equaliser but Sunday's 2-2 draw was probably the most viewed football match in US history.
An average of 24.7 million watched the World Cup thriller on ESPN and Univision, said data firm Neilsen.
That matched figures for the 2010 final, but ESPN said an additional 490,000 people streamed coverage.
The match had more viewers than homegrown events like the NBA finals in basketball or baseball World Series.
Streaming numbers for 2010 weren't immediately available, but it's very unlikely they were as high as 2014 because the technology was not as widely used
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
The apprentice claims that he used that well known search engine, Google, to source the pictures. The thing is he’s more of a rugby fan and not very clued up on football. Suffice to say that when he Google image searched ‘Chris Smalling’ he copied the first picture he liked the look of and the result was that the President of the United States has ended up on an England cup instead of the English defender.
I'm not very clued up on football either, but what's his excuse for not recognizing the visage of the leader of the free world?? Not one who watches the news much, I gather.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
An average of 24.7 million watched the World Cup thriller on ESPN and Univision, said data firm Neilsen.
I'll definitely make time to watch the game tomorrow, but because of when it's on, (9 AM out here, noon back east, on a weekday) I expect the numbers will be down...(not everybody can control their work schedule...)
However, I must point out a glaring error in the article headline:
Sunday's 2-2 draw was probably the most viewed football match in US history.
Not even close. That would be Super Bowl XLVIII:
The Seattle Seahawks' dominant performance in Super Bowl XLVIII, defeating the Denver Broncos 43-8, the largest margin of victory in a Super Bowl in 21 years, was watched by an average audience of 111.5 million people, more than any television program in U.S. history.
But 24.7 million certainly isn't bad for a soccer game...
No Jim. That's American football. You can't steal the label and declare it to mean whatever you want it to mean. Football is football. What you enjoy (aside from mocking aboriginal peoples ) is American football.
It's like tea (which is always hot) and iced tea which isn't - there is no such thing as a necessity to specify "hot tea" - except to blockheads who can't handle the English language.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
MajGenl.Meade wrote:No Jim. That's American football. You can't steal the label and declare it to mean whatever you want it to mean.
Tell that to the Mormons.
Yeah that's why I borrowed "label" from BigRR
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
I will say I noticed one significant improvement in the game Sunday over four years ago...
At the end of regulation time, when they added playing time to the clock to cover the injury time and the water break, the refs actually let everybody know how much time was being added rather than keeping it a secret, like they did for the last World Cup...
I have a suggestion for a further improvement; a truly revolutionary idea...
How about instead of trying to maintain the fiction that playing time is never interrupted, and then having the head referee tack on additional time that he's been keeping track of on a stop watch in his pocket, he blows a whistle when he wants playing time to stop, and the clock on the field stops, and then he blows a whistle again when he wants the clock to start running?
Radical, I know, but it has the advantage that every game would actually have 90 minutes of "playing time" rather than "90 minutes of 'real time' plus whatever the guy happens to have on the stop watch in his pocket"...
Seems a tad more professional to me...
Especially when you're talking about the most "important" series of the "most popular sport on earth"...
MajGenl.Meade wrote:No Jim. That's American football. You can't steal the label and declare it to mean whatever you want it to mean. Football is football. What you enjoy (aside from mocking aboriginal peoples ) is American football.
It's like tea (which is always hot) and iced tea which isn't - there is no such thing as a necessity to specify "hot tea" - except to blockheads who can't handle the English language.
Iir "soccer" IS the English coinage for the game and was changed later to "football".
