Anyone Going To The World Cup?

[scotttswan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvjk47UORFs

 

[camberiu]

I watched the whole game from start to finish.

Jesus, who bribed the refs? That was just painfully blatant. It was like they decided before the game that Brazil was going to win, and then did whatever they had to do in order to make Brazil win. Voided what was obviously a legitimate Croat goal, penalised the wrong player, you name it.

Politically, there is so much at stake, that it would not surprise me at all if Dilma has bribed all the referees.

 

[Redpossum]

Politically, there is so much at stake, that it would not surprise me at all if Dilma has bribed all the referees.

The very idea just sends me into a rage. Once upon a Time, there was once this concept called "Sportsmanship". But no, every institution must be corrupted, so we wind up with a fat bag of festering worm-infested excrement like Sepp Blatter in charge of FIFA, while the Olympics were prostituted by Juan Samaranch decades ago.

Words fail me.

 

[camberiu]

The very idea just sends me into a rage. Once upon a Time, there was once this concept called "Sportsmanship". But no, every institution must be corrupted, so we wind up with a fat bag of festering worm-infested excrement like Sepp Blatter in charge of FIFA, while the Olympics were prostituted by Juan Samaranch decades ago.

Words fail me.

Sportsmanship has nothing to do with it. This is realpolitik.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Sportsmanship has nothing to do with it. This is realpolitik.

Sportmanship in soccer has always been an oxymoron.

 

[scotttswan]

taken from

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDQfyrViIAQ

 

[camberiu]

Dilma's praetorian guard in action. This is just the beginning. That is "social democracy" for ya.

 

[French jurist]

 

[camberiu]

The true "official" song of the world cup.
I am sad and angry about what is happening, but I am also proud and hopeful. The video shows how angry and fed up Brazilians are. It is refreshing to see the stark contrast with the complacency that we see in Argentina. What gives me hope are two things:

1) Brazilians seem to know that they deserve better
2) They also blame themselves and recognize that we need to change in order for the country to improve.

This is the silver lining of this whole world cup tragedy.

http://youtu.be/7zBgaXXZ8GI

 

[ajoknoblauch]

The true "official" song of the world cup.
I am sad and angry about what is happening, but I am also proud and hopeful. The video shows how angry and fed up Brazilians are. It is refreshing to see the stark contrast with the complacency that we see in Argentina. What gives me hope are two things:

1) Brazilians seem to know that they deserve better
2) They also blame themselves and recognize that we need to change in order for the country to improve.

This is the silver lining of this whole world cup tragedy.

It's the inevitable by-product of soccer.