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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
aaaaah…. i understand everything now.
so dullsvillse or not i'm jealous of the fact that you can walk to the stadium and catch a game. the closest stadiums for me would be in denver and somewhere in utah… both *hundreds* of miles away--if not over 1,000.
so instead i get to pick and follow teams like i'd follow a band whose music i like but i have no real loyalties there. the club i grew up watching is in a different part of the planet and out of reach and i don't know a thing about it anymore and actually don't give a shit.
damn, i miss going to the stadium. last i did was for dc united when i lived there. it was a crap team but you'd get a nice seat for $12.
i'm terrible at ranking stuff but chronologically my most memorable world cup events began with van persie's header against spain and ended when neuer bypassed the handshake and hugged merkel like she was his long lost grandma-- this not strictly football but still a part of the whole thing. otherwise the last one would be gotze's goal, a thing of beauty.
too many things in between to mention.
really it's been a fantastic world cup. in a way it's been exhausting. i'd like to imagine this is how the ancient greeks felt after their dyonisian festivals and attending the theatre for days upon days.
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It was a great tournament. After the shock and awe of the groups, the knockout stage was in danger of looking predictable but the Brazil-Germany game even eclipsed Spain-Holland in the wtf stakes. Might be fair to say it didn't throw up a great team or even a consistently great individual but WCs rarely do. The strength of this one is that it had so many great matches compared with previous ones I can remember. Belgium v USA, Chile v Brazil, Mexico v Brazil, Australia v Holland, they were what really stood out for me. Plus the obvious sensational results between Germany and Brazil and Spain and Holland. And of course Suarez's bite.