USA! DRAW!

I had a fabulous time and will take the draw and can only hope we meet England again if the cards stack up right.

I was in a pub where I know the owners chatting away and finally one guy goes, "wait are you a yank?" I said yes sir did the accetn get away from you?  then we all laughed in the bar and he got made fun off ;-) YAY

It was fun to watch we would joke with each other and I am glad I went out to watch.
I was in a safe pub down the street from my house and all I knew was the bartender/owner BUT I did meet a new friend and she is super cool and we have plans to go out!
HA I made a friend with a Brit during the England v. USA match hahaha how fun!

People said to me "England had the better team but the USA had a better goalie."  I don't know why people talk about who's "better" because the score is only about who was playing and how they were playing during that one game on that one day.  Luckily, so far nobody has been rude to me about the game at all though. 

Our German friends are pretty pleased with their result. 

Great game though the second half was hard to watch, a vast majority of it we were on defense, thank god for Howard!   Now if both England and USA win against Slovenia and Algeria it will come down to who has scored more goals etc, etc. etc.

Keep your fingers crossed, if we can take the division we won't have to face Germany!

Well I don't know much about football, although I did play hockey.  What struck me was that the American team seemed so dispersed.  At times it seemed like there were fewer Americans on the field than English.  Maybe it was the dark shirts.  It just seemed that they took a long time to get together when the ball moved whether they possessed it or not.  I don't know if I am making sense or making an observation worth anything.  I am hoping they do well, now, because it seemed they were written off from the beginning.  Plus, I think the commentators said something about the American goal being a "sucker punch".  Okay, it might not have been this flashy display of prowess, but it wasn't a cheap shot or anything... That sort of got my ire up a bit, and I am rooting for the underdog.  And those non-English Brits might want to too.  Is there nothing the British like more than an underdog?

I sort of want to watch more of it, but I will have to be careful how many games I insist on watching. because my husband detests sports of most kinds.  He barely let me watch the Winter Olympics.  It's not that he forbids me or anything.  He just gets really moany.  He will only watch the World Cup when England plays Germany.  Even if he goes off and does something else, he's all sulky.

I sort of want to watch more of it, but I will have to be careful how many games I insist on watching. because my husband detests sports of most kinds.  He barely let me watch the Winter Olympics.  It's not that he forbids me or anything.  He just gets really moany.  He will only watch the World Cup when England plays Germany.  Even if he goes off and does something else, he's all sulky.

This is Mr. K to a "T."  But once he started watching, he was so funny.  As it looked more and more likely that it would end up a draw, he kept muttering the "England always finds a way to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory."  And this was priceless...he told me that England should have won because they scored first and more convincingly.

I told him that a goal does not gain value just because it is around longer or hits the back of the net harder!     He was not amused by my observations!

But I agree that the US has a great goalie.   He stopped some awesome shots.

I really feel bad for the English goalie. The papers have been merciless on him, but I do love how papers here are also saying "America plays a stunning game--etc etc" XD
 

Again, June, it goes back to what I was saying earlier when a guy at my uni said that the US goal "wasn't real." Ummm how was it not real? The player kicked the ball, the ball was not veered away by the opposing team, the ball was not caught by the goalie, the ball went into the goal...

I had to remind DH that when England played a friendly against Japan, (just before the start of the World Cup) Japan managed to give England their two goals by putting the ball in themselves - and England definitely counted the 2-0 as fair game! Course, I reminded him, that if England had done that for Japan, England would have had a fit...saying it wasn't fair. As I reminded him, kinda like the US v England game....a goal is a goal!