pretty awful game to be honest,,,i don't think japan or england have a great chance in the grand scheme of things england played better,,but that is not saying much..

tulio scored the only actual goal 9 minutes in & then he scored the 1st own-goal 20minutes later

nakazawa scored the 2nd own-goal

even with the own-goals,,the japan goalie was good & frankie lampard let me down (2nd missed penalty in a couple weeks,,very rare for him)

Is Lampard your favorite player on the Eng squad?

Mexico beat Gambia 5 to 1 which is not saying much either, but it's always good to increase the morale before the big event. Now we are up against Italy. The real thing is closing in, and I must say... in general, most teams are not looking good, even Spain suffered against SArabia.

But what I'm fearing most is Blatter stating that SouthAfrica is a really good team and that they'll make it through for sure... and that after seeing how the referee stole Colombia on their game! Fftttt:!: that's crap. FIFA helping out the local team.

i always root for mexico, and a bit for spain and germany (gotta go with my family lineage )

yes,,,very true,,besides being a chelsea supporter,,lil frankie is the apple-of-my-eye

btw,,good effort on the 5-1 result..definitely a confidence booster even if it was an easy win..

don't worry jeb.
according to some very complex mathematics modeling done by some financial genius, England will win WC2010. If this model turns out right, England will achieve WC glory by their worst enemy in all past worldcup ---> penalty shoot-out. so I guess its ok for frank lampard to miss his penalties during these warm-up games.

TiVo is my friend!
Every single game will be watched at my house!

That was a crazy game . . . we win 2-1 despite never even scoring a goal! . . . WTF!

The Japanese manager had a face like a slapped arse . . . wonder if the offending players have to chop off part of their pinkie finger Yakuza stylee!

Well.. I have to give it to you: Today, Walcott out of the WC. Cappello cuts him out.

Meanwhile in Canada, you can watch WC2010 on yer mobile: http://bit.ly/cgIR3c

Meanwhile in Brussels, Italy 1- Mexico 2. Hell yeah!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY7VhkTtcNc

Good! All Australian's hate the Italian team ;D

Australia 1 - Denmark 0

*phew*

Might just be THE WC CALENDAR to end all WC Calendars..

Had to bring back to life this thread! Tomorrow the real deal starts!!! Good luck to all the teams from board members... oh! except France.

Ok Ok... France too. (except against Mexico )

/me needs help tracking down a DPRK jersey.

apparently they don't exist for sale from the research I've done.

Yeah, I feel that's gonna be a tough one... how 'bout this?

http://www.toffs.com/invt/3054

good luck to mexico with the opening game!! just over 6 hours to go!!!!

Well done SA for first goal scored!

shame for Mexico

Shoulda played Chicharito. Not sure why he was left out.

Well 1-1 mexico SA, we need to improve the defense!!

let see vs France

waiting for death group (G) play to start with ivory coast vs portugal.
and you guys might only see me briefly saturday at the show because of USA v ENG

Totally agree... think most people here (in mex) agree.

dissapointed with mexico as well.
they had numerous opportunities at the start of the game to score, buy they ruined them.
good thing is that uruguay and france tied as well.