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11 June 2010

Is anyone else watching the World Cup opener? SA should totally be losing right about now.

post by: gaspode at: 10:05 | 21 comments

Are we still harboring grudges from that 1995 rugby match?

posted by danf 11 June | 10:10

Yes! And chatting with SpoFites in their IRC. Info here if you care to join.

posted by ufez 11 June | 10:10

GOOOAAAALLLLLLL!

Wow!

posted by gaspode 11 June | 10:17

I would if I wasn't (supposed to be) working, ufez.

nah, rugby grudges stay in rugby, danf... Mexico *did* outplay them in the first half

posted by gaspode 11 June | 10:19

Is there anywhere to watch online? My husband was in cable company service hell all yesterday and we still aren't getting ESPN for some reason. He cried a little.

posted by rainbaby 11 June | 10:24

Maybe the SpoFi peeps would know, rb?

posted by gaspode 11 June | 10:28

Yeah, I'll check over there.

posted by rainbaby 11 June | 10:29

http://www.itv.com/sport/football/fifaworldcup/watchlive/

Guy has it on the teevee. All cats came running when he Goooooooooaled.

I am enjoying how handsome many of the players are. Especially that one Mexican player, who looks rather like a teenager.

posted by crush-onastick 11 June | 10:36

It seems like the World Cup fans are breaking Twitter already. :(

posted by desjardins 11 June | 10:43

http://www.itv.com/sport/football/fifaworldcup/watchlive/

How are you watching this? It tells me it's only available in the UK. Aren't you in Chicago?

posted by desjardins 11 June | 10:45

I got the same message as desjardins. Darn!

posted by danf 11 June | 10:48

Oh, sorry. I was chatting. Try ESPN.com I'll link to it when France/Uruguay start in a couple hours. I've got some errands to run and a lunch date with my pops right now, though.

posted by ufez 11 June | 11:10

Mexico got robbed of their first goal, they should've won that match outright.

I am enjoying how handsome many of the players are. Especially that one Mexican player, who looks rather like a teenager.
posted by crush-onastick 11 June | 10:36

Yes crush, that is really half the fun :)

posted by msali 11 June | 11:10

We've got it on the teevee. That link was just the one suggested to me by a friend (who is in England, of course) and I hadn't checked it out!

posted by crush-onastick 11 June | 11:15

so how does that work if it's a tie? who advances into the next round or whatever?

posted by desjardins 11 June | 13:01

ESPN doesn't work either. Every link just goes to the top of the page. No wonder Americans don't watch this stuff, they sure don't make it easy.

posted by desjardins 11 June | 13:17

desjardins - in the opening round (group play) all of the squads are separated into groups of 4. Every team plays the others in their grouop (round robin fashion). You get 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 for a loss. At the end of the round robin, the two teams that have accumulated the most points in each group move on to the elimination round. So both Mexico and South Africa earned a point for the opening match.

posted by ufez 11 June | 13:17

And for ESPN, go here, enable pop-ups, and then select the France/Uruguay match. It hasn't started quite yet, and I think there may be a bit of delay on the streaming as compared to the teevee, but it should work.

posted by ufez 11 June | 13:20

ufez - that's what I did. Doesn't work. :(

Here's a list of streams for the France/Uruguay match. The ones marked "others" usually don't require special software. I'm on this one (heavily accented English, uses flash).

posted by desjardins 11 June | 13:47

Just checked the sports page on my local paper's website and there are five articles about NFL football, which doesn't start for two more months, and zero about World Cup. If it were up to US media, you'd never know that we were even participating.

posted by octothorpe 11 June | 15:39

That spiffy goal was a nice consolation prize for the South Africa fans.

Mexico's performance could not have struck fear in the hearts of their future opponents.

posted by Joe Beese 11 June | 20:01

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