World Cup Final Talk

US.NAVYIf you want to discuss the World Cup final, fire away. Did you withstand Alexi Lalas’s desk-pounding on the pre-game show? At least Kelly Smith pointed it out. USC striker Amy Rodriguez is on the bench.

UPDATED II: 2-0 USA in first six minutes. And now 3-0. And 4-0 after 16 minutes. It’s over. Japan pulls one back finally to make it 4-1.

UPDATED III: The U-S-A wins 5-2 to claim the World Cup! Does women’s soccer get a boost from this? Of course, there’s that L.A. women’s soccer team for one. Oh wait, there isn’t. But men’s or women’s soccer, nothing beats the World Cups.

GOAL

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26 thoughts on “World Cup Final Talk

  1. Lalas has always been an idiot. He’s very bitter from his own failed career.

  2. I knew Wolf’s blog would be a repository for serious women’s Cup discussion.

    The main thing I’ve gotta say is: WOW!

    Japan is feeling the power of the USA women’s team.

    (Rusovi, you antiquated reactionary who’s always unwilling to accept change, you…take another swig of thee vodka canteen and enjoy this moment for once instead of complaining, dude!)

    • Hello old stick – no need for you to get your knickers all bunched up sailor hmmm? Then again for you there’s always that moment when you regale all with “Oh no not now….stop it!”

      I? Complain? No thou who lookest like ‘Matt Money Smith” … oh do you ever……..

      For you “Toujours sur la chasse!” Tally ho!

      • Way to go Otis, ripping off “old stick” dialogue from “Harper.”

        • My my Well done boyo and then the follow-up “…well you can have her old stick….yes”

          • At least you now have the Harper dialogue in quotes “old stick.”

          • Yes well there it is – pray tell you don’t find your very self in a sticky wicket hmmm?

            “All power to the soviets”-Lenin’s dictum –
            co -opt, control and corrupt.

            Now go out and dig up that field salted with ‘dollars’…..

          • Nicky got the credit, N. Krupskaya did the work. Besides Otis, Nicky was headed back toward capitalism, prior to being poisoned.

            Get a library card Otis and pursue fact.

          • I always liked Fanny Kaplan myself – time to let it go i.e. this as well as your animus ‘old stick’….

          • Man, you’re old…and I mean really antiquated…like from a bygone era.

            Obsolete.

  3. Re. UPDATED: 2-0 USA in first six minutes. And now 3-0. And 4-0 after 16 minutes.

    So sorry Wolf that your team lost and U S A wins !!!!!! Ever think you should root FOR USA instead of against it ???

  4. Scott is a turncoat. ..are you rooting for Japan today, Scott? …what happened to England?

    • I think what Scott’s trying to say without crying is that he lost big betting on Japan and someone will be look for him tomorrow on campus wanting their cheddar!

  5. Withstand Lala’s desk – pounding? ….we are able to withstand your blog, aren’t we? ….It’s all an act to artificially create controversy and draw attention to himself. ..sound familiar, Scott?

  6. Considering the NCAA Championships achieved by both USC and UCLA this event shall draw interest as no other one has for women athletics.

    Go USA!

    • One interesting tidbit. USA Coach Jill Ellis went to 7 Final 4’s with UCLA and never won the title. Now she coaches the women to the World Cup Title. The very 1st year she doesn’t coach the Bruins, UCLA wins the NCAA Title. Strange things happen in sports.

      And how about that goal from midfield by Carli Lloyd! Spectacular!

  7. Which carrier is that… The Reagan, CV-76 off of the port of San Diego?

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