I’m in it for the long haul. I was going to go to bed and watch the replay at noon today and avoid espn.com in the morning… but I gotta stay up now. No way I’m going to bed.
Anybody wanna tell me how to do that spoiler thing? I wanna talk about the game!!!
{spoiler} Greenland just beat Tuvalu 29-0! {/spoiler}
Except you use ['s instead of {'s.
Sweet thanks.
The second goal was not offsides… it WAS an own goal though. Donovon kicked it towards goal and it went off a defenders back and kind of wierdly into the goal. Portugal’s attackers are excellent. Their D is really letting them down though.
Yeah but a smartass would say
just type [spoiler]whatever you want[/spoiler]
and you get whatever you want
Well, I kind of figured that was what I needed to do. Except went I hit the post reply thingy it wasn’t listed there as an available tag…
Note to self. Work+bar+wings game+bar+bar+bar+usa soccer game does not appear to be the best way to prepare for that big meeting with the company pres at 7:30 tommorow morning. 
And now that were kickin ass there’s no way I can go to bed till it’s over.
Here we go… 2nd half–
Earnie Stewart’s out. He had a great 1st half.
Well spank my ass and call me Uncle Sam. I’ll only be too delighted if my prediction is wrong - come on the Yanks.
And I’ve just managed to get the afternoon off so it’s beer and football galore. With our lucky mascot and celebrity albino, Stevie Staunton, gaining his 100th cap, we can’t lose (by much!).
3-2 this will be a great finish. Why dont we put the entire thread in pone big spoiler?
oh, and the Butler did it.
THE UNITED STATES HAS SHOCKED THE WORLD!! Anybody think this has really stopped traffic in all of Europe! This is awesome! WOOOOOOOOO! OLEEEEE OLE OLE OLEEEEE! AMAZING 2ND HALF… GREAT DEFENSIVE PLAY BY OUR GUYS (well, except for that own goal) 3-2 Final! I’m so stoked! I’m so glad that I stayed up for this! We’d better beat Korea now… one more win and I’d say we’re in the 2nd round!!
[spoiler]3-2. Game’s done. Congrats, USA, can’t wait to see the highlights of this match!!
And just FTR: in the library, with a knife.[/spoiler]
Round Two of predictions are now underway. The deadline is soon as the games begin 7.30am GMT on Saturday:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=118779
Presumably anyone submitting after then fooks the whole thing up and vil 'av to be eliminated.
Game started! Go Ireland!
Wavy comes running into the thread, arms out "airplane style’ and tears over to the corner post flag and dances, ripping off my shirt. Wow…what a game!
Woke up at 5 AM to catch the start of the US match. That was fun stuff. Let’s see, 50% Irish, 45% German, 5% Cherokee Indian. Go green!
What a game, Ireland! And thanks again for the 3 points!
Christian Ziege’s head looks like a porn star’s snatch, what with his landing-strip haircut.
I’m quite drunk.
Based on my Mad Crazy National Anthem Hypothesis (teams don’t recover after having their national anthem buggered up by the band - cf France v Senegal, England v Sweden), France will win this one. The band finished too early for the Uruguayans, who wanted to sing another verse.