World Cup 2010: Netherlands v. Japan

Netherlands beat Japan 3-0 last year and there’s no reason to believe today’s result, if perhaps not the score, should be any different. On paper, Netherlands is far superior to Japan’s squad comprised almost entirely of J-league stars. Still, if...

World Cup 2010: England v. Algeria

This should be an English victory, but who knows? We’ve seen some weird stuff in the last few days. Notably, England starts David “Calamity” James in goal replacing the poor sap who gave up the goal to the US. Based on the first 5 minutes, looks like...

World Cup 2010: Slovenia v. United States

Big news on the US side is that we’ve benched Ricardo Clark replacing him with Torres. GREAT news as far as I’m concerned, never having been a Clark fan. Otherwise the line-up is the same as the match against England. Two seconds for the US to give away...

World Cup 2010: Germany v. Serbia

Serbia starts fast, attempting to say something like “we’re not Australia.” Fair enough. Germany may have looked like the class of the tournament so far, but a lot of that had to do with Australia giving them space to operate. I’m guessing...

World Cup 2010: France v. Mexico

I’ll be frank: I don’t think Mexico has the horses to run with France. Still, they’re not terrible and they always bring a good effort which gives them a chance. Mexico picks up an early yellow for not backing off the ball. Dumb. The Univision guys...