Before anyone else does . . . . football will win! 
Yeah ! I love this game. 
Sometimes I feel it is equal fun watching maradona reacting to the game !
So does Maradona.
**Argentina vs Germany 10:00 A.M. EST
[size=5]España vs Paraguay 2:30 P.M. EST**[/size]
Got about four hours of sleep 2nite – bet you can all guess why.
Isn’t football a blast?
Vamos España! A por ellos!
That match was the reason why the third group matches kick of at the same time. There were brief ‘highlights’ shown in the UK, Barry Davies, the BBC commentator “Stielike, Rummenigge… names that roll off the tongue and leave a nasty taste in the mouth”
Great commentator… I wouldn’t recommend his autobiography to my worst enemy though…
Perhaps they’ll allow football players to actually kick the ball about on an outdoor pitch with real weather conditions in order to test the next one, instead of giving the job to some guys in white coats?
What if the ball had actually hit Suarez’s head and bounced clear, but because of the swinging motion of his arms the ref thought he had handled it, so sent him off and incorrectly awarded the goal?
The “penalty goal” is a good idea, but it completely relies on video technology being accepted and used first. Without using replays, you cant have refs awarding goals on what will always be judgement calls.
If you can’t give a “compensation goal” when a goalkeeper takes down a striker as he is about to tap the ball into the net, you shouldn’t be able to get one as in the Suarez case. It’s not as if the ball had actually crossed the line and the “goal” was denied. Suarez commited an instinctive infringement of the game and payed the consequences with his sending off, and making his side face a penalty kick. It’s like a tennis player making one last desperate shot to keep the ball in play and make his opponent play a winner.
Actually yes. And it is demonstrably the case that not every footballer that could stick out a hand in such situations, does so.
So why do footballers never catch the ball? After all, this would make the oh so important distinction crystal clear. A player grabbing the ball is doing the “honorable” thing for his team, and not trying to get away with a foul.
This is the corner you’ve boxed youself into. Anything that can help a team win is good, no matter what, oh except diving because it’s damn dishonest (and I don’t like it).
Personally I don’t give a toss whether the rules allow certain loopholes. I’m free to deplore whatever behaviour I like. I don’t like when the draw rule in chess is abused. I don’t like tax fiddles that let millionaires pay no tax etc
Spot on. It seems like almost every World Cup there is an issue about the ball. I don’t recall hearing any complaints about the ball in the Champions League or the European Championships. Why test a new ball in the biggest competition?
LESS THAN TWO HOURS TO GO!!!
In case you weren’t aware already. 
My heart says Argentina, my head says Argentina, but as a neutral, it’ll be funny as fuck if Germany win via The Hand Of God.
What a terrible start. The defense indeed looks shaky as hell.
Wow. I thought it was no big deal that I’d woken up a couple minutes late…
ETA: can you hear that sound? Eighty million Germans are whispering, “Don’t pull a Brazil!”
Hell of a porous defense by the Albis. Keep playing like that and I can see Germany running away with it.
Jabulani doing it’s own thing – not even Messi can control it!
Obvious offside call on that score but Germany is playing with fire. Way too early to give up possession, especially with such a meager lead.
This is looking like the best game of the tournament
Yah, no question. They aren’t getting many opportunities to score, and they’re letting too many chances happen. Hopefully the coach will ream them out before the second half.