Category Archives: soccer

The Gillette curse: Razors = evil

Remember this annoying Gillette ad with Tiger Woods, Roger Federer and soccer star Thierry Henry.

Started running in late 2007, even spawned a second commercial with Derek Jeter replacing Henry (we assume one shown just in the States).
So what’s happened since the original ad? All of them have suffered some severe career change.
Tiger Woods? Sure he [...]

Speaking English Squeaks In

Just in time to beat this weekend’s EPL fixtures, the lads are here to give their opinions on last weekend’s action.  And analyze the F1 snooze-fest at Valencia.
Speaking English 08-26-08

Bigtime Failure… Still More ‘Failure’ than ‘Bigtime’

But such errors are the surest signs of inferiority. The Americans deserved this loss every bit as much as they deserved the tie versus the Netherlands, every bit as much as they deserved to be bounced out, flat on their asses.

Speaking English - 8.6.08

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Journalistic integrity? Who needs it when Spain wins!

This from Cuatro TV’s (a Spanish TV station with local rights to Euro 2008) post-game coverage of Spain’s 1-0 final’s victory over Germany. The reporter is a guy named Juanma Castaño, and he seems all too happy to a) jump around with the winning team and b) act like he actually played.
Here’s a tip pal: [...]

The sneakiest goal you’ve ever seen

Or will ever see. This is just flat awesome.

Euro 2008 Semi-Final Preview

My sincere condolences to anyone unfortunate enough to have witnessed Spain’s penalty win over Italy this past Sunday.  In what was billed as the premier matchup of the Quarter-Finals, a showdown between two traditional powerhouses,  22 world-class players slogged through 120 minutes of impossibly dour, scoreless soccer and bored even die-hard fans of the game to tears.  Those [...]

Shoulda ponied up for that ticket to Innsbruck

Big tip of the hat to With Leather for unearthing the Euro 2008 Girls blog, which is light on the commentary and big on the pictures. God bless international soccer competition!
Some favorites:
I for one can appreciate a German girl.

Holland! Even though they beat up the Italians pretty bad, this works as compensation…

And finally…Sweden represents.

Seafoam, Turkey? Seriously?

Okay, Turkey…first off, congrats on your win over the Swiss in Euro 2008. However, we got some issues to discuss before your next game.
Specifically, the uniforms on the far left. They don’t look too terrible in this picture, do they? Well, on my television at home, they look like maybe the worst uniforms I’ve ever [...]

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