cheer up folks, the world championship soccer cup is starting soon

[tocqueville]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaFm47lsL2g&feature=Favorites&page=1&t=t&f=b

[rpannier]

1. And I will be following it here from Korea

I want Korea and the US to do well.

[Captain Hilts]

2. My heart's with US and England, but it's cool when a country like...

Cameroon gets close, as it did in 1990. So, I think it would be neat if a poor country won.

This is the globe's ONLY global and fair competition.

[TahitiNut]

3. Yep. Friday noon I'll be tuned to ESPN2

Germany vs Costa Rica

http://members.aol.com/tahitinut/WorldCup.htm

[Karenina]

4. And if you need a primer

on what the brouhaha is all about JOHN CLEESE explains EVERYTHING from A-Z
in "Art of Football."

Caught it on Arte Sunday night... EVERYONE WEIGHS IN from Pele to Henry Kissinger to Dave Stewart to Desmond Tutu to Mia Hamm to Dennis Hopper and BOY do they explain it ALL!!! I watched it in German but will look for a link in English to hear Cleese's banter in the original.

It's 110 minutes of the most in-your-face shit ever produced on the subject of soccer, erraaa... FOOTBALL.