Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!g1g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: chuckers Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: The World Cup. Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:36:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 60 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <3fe61db6-38e9-457f-8623-62f453ea82f3@q39g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <058b2914-7914-41f5-9961-5fbdc8e05383@t14g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <9e0be8f9-8105-41a8-b1f5-ad379e948a55@n20g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.36.179.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1276558573 25874 127.0.0.1 (14 Jun 2010 23:36:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:36:13 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g1g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.36.179.50; posting-account=iPkvIwoAAAAK9uQVY7lJ0Hck6k8yfmjW User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169317 On Jun 14, 8:02=A0pm, Declan Murphy wrote: > On Jun 14, 9:22=A0am, The 2-Belo > wrote: > > > > > We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Declan= Murphy > > has exploded. Flight director confirms that: > > > >On Jun 11, 8:06?am, The 2-Belo > > >wrote: > > >> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Dec= lan Murphy > > >> has exploded. Flight director confirms that: > > > >> >I'm going to miss a few games (working my proverbial off this summe= r), > > >> >but I'm really looking forward to it, even though Ireland were > > >> >eliminated by the cheating French (spit in the general direction of > > >> >Paris). > > > >> I can't bear to watch Japan's matches, although I probably will anyw= ay. It is 90 > > >> minutes of screaming WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING at the television. > > > >Only Japan match I'm definitely watching is Japan/Holland. I'm going > > >to be interviewed (pre-record) next Wednesday on Dutch radio about it. > > >Maybe if the Dutch exchanged their boots for wooden clogs... > > > Can you put it up somewhere for me to hear? I'd be interested in listen= ing. > > Probably can. Probably not going to be very interesting though :-) > > > >What really irritates me about the Japan matches is not the players > > >(doing their best etc), not the coach (its not his fault his > > >federation appointed him to a position in which he is out of his > > >depth), but the commentators. > > > Oh, yeah, that's another rant entirely. > > Its not just the commentators, but all the media. There are > unrealistic expectations for a team that is primarily just a J-League > concern. 19 of the 23 squad members play all of their club football in > Japan - its no wonder that Japan hasn't won a single World Cup match > outside Japan as yet. [...] Well, they have now as the media will proceed to tell us over and over again. If Japan can hold Denmark and the Netherlands to draws, it *might* have a chance of going to the next stage. Again, I only care about the mathematics behind it. Interleague baseball is still winding down.