*** 2010 FIFA World Cup ***

1…34689…89

Comments

  • Hinn
    Hinn Posts: 1,517
    Black Diamond wrote:
    chime wrote:

    ... am the same ... attending shows at the beginning of the tour so I'll be free to watch the later stages of the World Cup. World Cup once every 4 years ... Pearl Jam (lately :P) have tended to be around more often so I'd skip a gig to watch some of the World Cup games on tv :)
    :?

    I would skip the World Series, Super Bowl, NHL Stanley Cup or the NBA Finals if my team was not in it...
    It's the world cup. The biggest event in the world, not the other things that no one really cares too much about. I absolutely hate the timing of these shows, but eh, gotta make do.

    Yeah, I'm missing Belfast to watch Australia play Serbia. It may well be the case that we would've lost to Germany and Ghana already, but I don't care. I've bought a Nijmegen ticket, but will more than likely not go so I can watch more WC. Aussies will more than likely only be involved in 3 matches, but I'll watch as many games as humanly possible. BECAUSE IT'S THE FRIGGIN WORLD CUP.

    Friday and Saturday nights at Werchter will be quarter finals nights, and while I'm camping all 4 nights at the festival I'm sure there's somewhere I can go to catch the games- it's only Sunday when I'll be glued to the rails, nappies and all. just as well there's no game that night. Otherwise I'd need to get a radio to listen to the commentary.

    Not thinking about Venice at all. Never missing a bloody semi final for a PJ show at a festival, doesn't matter if it's down the road or in the back garden. Bilbao and Lisbon, while appealing as travel destinations, are places I'd rather properly visit than rush in and out for gigs, and I'd rather catch the final in a big open place to watch it with a fuckload of people and be able to go home to my bed when I'm done with the partying.

    I've taken a look at the overall schedule. There shouldn't be too many big matches to coincide with the gig nights.
    115 bucks for half a haircut by a novice? I want my money back!
  • rick1zoo2
    rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    I will be DVRing a lot of games as the WC happens during the U2 tour in June and July.
  • badbrains
    badbrains Posts: 10,255
    How Argentina is not dominating I'll never understand. They have so much talent from messi, tevez, macharano, iquine, milito, so much talent. The teams to beat should be Spain, Argentina, England and holland. England will have issues cuz, well it's England. And you'd think some bad luck will be involved with holland losing. So I'm saying Spain or agentina and I'm going with the X factor, messi...
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    less than 50 days to go!! I started this thread with 100 days to go! half way there. :):)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    dunkman wrote:
    less than 50 days to go!! I started this thread with 100 days to go! half way there. :):)


    those scots and their expertise in maths ;) :P
  • cajunkiwi
    cajunkiwi Posts: 984
    You're all losers.

    This is CLEARLY New Zealand's tournament to lose!

    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

    Seriously... if we score one single, solitary, goal I'll be stoked. It's only our second time ever qualifying - under "Just Happy To Be Here" in the dictionary there's a photo of the New Zealand team (we have odd dictionaries in New Zealand that allow for incomplete sentences to be added as entries). We did score two goals against Scotland in '82... but gave up five. :(

    Either way - it can't get here soon enough!
    And I listen for the voice inside my head... nothing. I'll do this one myself.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    norm wrote:
    dunkman wrote:
    less than 50 days to go!! I started this thread with 100 days to go! half way there. :):)


    those scots and their expertise in maths ;) :P


    :D:D

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Napier

    blame this guy ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
    dunkman wrote:
    norm wrote:
    dunkman wrote:
    less than 50 days to go!! I started this thread with 100 days to go! half way there. :):)


    those scots and their expertise in maths ;) :P


    :D:D

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Napier

    blame this guy ;)

    Wow, the inventor of the decimal point. I hear it was also a Scott who invented the period.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    49 days till the states show the world they have arrived.
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
    I couldn't give a rats ass about tennis.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    49 days till the states show the world they have arrived.

    You'd think we did after our strong 2002 WC and coming within a half of winning the Confederations Cup last year. Still though, I'm nervous about this one, even with the great group matchups. Too many injuries for our best players.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    gabers wrote:
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    49 days till the states show the world they have arrived.

    You'd think we did after our strong 2002 WC and coming within a half of winning the Confederations Cup last year. Still though, I'm nervous about this one, even with the great group matchups. Too many injuries for our best players.

    I hear you, especially after the confederations cup. I am nervous about the injuries as well but am confident, if that makes any sense. Think this is a pretty good team and has been together for a while. Plus all the England drama cant be helping.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    make dreams...king Otto will kick your ass! :lol::lol::lol::lol:
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Dimitris, doesn't the World Cup overlap with your month-long tour of Europe? How will you (and all the other Euros) catch all the games in between Pearl Jam shows?
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • rick1zoo2
    rick1zoo2 between a rock and a dumb place Posts: 12,632
    I will watching the final on July 11from the Holiday Inn next to Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia along with a few hundred of my U2 friends. The U2 show is July 12 and we are all getting there a day early to start the party.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsi ... ed+live+tv

    :shock: :shock:


    Players hoping to be named in France's squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ would be well advised to tune in to the main evening news on 11 May.

    The reason? That is the time and place coach Raymond Domenech has chosen to reveal his squad for South Africa 2010, French television station TF1 announced on Tuesday.

    Domenech is breaking from tradition as in the past he has unveiled his national squads at a press conference open to all media.

    France's FIFA World Cup campaign kicks off against Uruguay in Cape Town on 11 June, followed by Mexico in Polokwane on 17 June and hosts South Africa in Bloemfontain five days later.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,920
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXlBSlyU8xY
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Poncier wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXlBSlyU8xY


    doesnt let us non-USA folks watch dude... its from ESPN.

    :(
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Dissidentman
    Dissidentman Posts: 15,378
    dunkman wrote:
    Poncier wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXlBSlyU8xY


    doesnt let us non-USA folks watch dude... its from ESPN.

    :(

    Serves you right, commies!
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,920
    dunkman wrote:
    Poncier wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXlBSlyU8xY


    doesnt let us non-USA folks watch dude... its from ESPN.

    :(
    World Cup commercial featuring voice over from Edge and Bono with "Magnificent" playing.

    Try this one, was put up by someone else:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1O-vZt_gps
    This weekend we rock Portland

Categories