scouser
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Not really about the sport, but what's involved around it....
- the weather turning bad at weekends, just when I want to hit the hills;
- other people crowding hills I want to go on
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USA'ns speak with ACTION, not WORDS?!!?!?
Yeah, sure, right. You've convinced me
Well done on the win, USA. Good game.
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Was it full for the Japan match - I didn't notice empty chunks like i did in other games.
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They did better than I thought they would.
First half, boring but it certainly got going after Belgium scored.
48 fouls all together in the game - 24 each. Not the smoothest and cleanest of games.
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The whole country will be watching the game tonight. I wonder how they will do?
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Still hanging around here then cheeseman?
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I actually think they might go through to the next round. After that who knows?
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Thanks for that danz. Good on ya mate.
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Check this out. Never liked this guy....
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Rivaldo faces ban after faking injury
SEOUL, June 4 (AFP)
Brazilian star Rivaldo could face a severe ban and a fine after faking an injury that led to Turkey's Hakan Unsal get sent off in the closing minutes of Monday's Brazil-Turkey World Cup match.
The Barcelona player collapsed at the corner flag clutching his head after Unsal kicked the ball at his his leg. Korean referee promptly showed Unsal the red card as Rivaldo rolled in agony.
FIFA's disciplinary committee were studying a video of the incident on Tuesday and were expected to give a ruling later in the day announced FIFA spokesman Keith Cooper.
Before the World Cup began players were warned that referees had been ordered to clamp down on cheating.
"In the last World Cup it was the tackle from behind, this time our target is simulation," explained George Cumming, head of the referees commission.
After the match Rivaldo admitted he had feigned injury.
"Obviously I exaggerated the incident for the guy to be sent off," he said.
"The ball hit my hand and my leg. It didn't hit me in the face but that kind of attitude (kicking the ball against an opponent) must not be allowed on the pitch. He deserved to have a red card."
Rivaldo, in his second World Cup, has always been perceived as an under-achiever at international level, despite an impressive scoring record, and has much to prove in South Korea and Japan.
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I get some mags sent over from the UK - NME, Q Magazine, and my mate bought me a sub present to FHM mag last summer so that comes every month too. They come to about 10000-12000 yen for 12 issues, including getting them sent over. The postman likes it when the cover is see through rather than dark gray!
[This message has been edited by scouser (edited 03 June 2002).]
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I was puzzled by the lack of anything on the TV this morning too. Seems they're not interested if there's no trouble.
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Alas, Sweden goal as well.
A moments silence please.
Lets hope Owen can actually get the ball in the next game.
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Current sign is "fingers crossed"!
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I'm bracing mate.
GO LADS!
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Got any more than the few-man yet Ocean? You might need to direct your savings for a Dirtsufer and pool in into your buying a resort funds.
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Thousands of seats will be left empty for England's match against Argentina in Sapporo on Friday as part of a deliberate policy by World Cup organisers.
Sightlines in some parts of the Sapporo stadium in the far north of Japan are so bad that organisers have made a decision not to sell them to supporters. At the match between Germany and Saudi Arabia, there were 7,000 empty seats in the 55,000 capacity stadium, most of them due to seats left empty on purpose.
FIFA communications director Keith Cooper said the reason for the problem was that Sapporo is a revamped baseball stadium, with a high wall around the pitch.
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Japan blames FIFA ticketing for thousands of empty seats; fans enraged
Japan's organising committee for the World Cup, JAWOC, said Sunday that FIFA mismanagement of ticket sales may be responsible for thousands of empty seats on the first day of football action in Japan.
Some 19,000 seats in total were vacant at the Ireland-Cameroon and Germany-Saudi Arabia matches on the first day of World Cup action in Japan, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.
"We were told that the unsold overseas tickets would be sent to us for sale in Japan, so we regret that they were not," JAWOC spokeswoman Yukiko Koike said. When asked if the unsold tickets caused the great gaps in attendance, Koike said "it is a possibility."
While FIFA has attempted to respond to the shortfall through ticket sales through their Internet site, enraged fans said the system was permanently jammed.
"I think it's a complete shambles," said Neil Rowe, a 27-year-old pilot from England, outside the stadium in Saitama, some 50 kilometers northwest of Tokyo, who had managed to get tickets to Sunday's England-Sweden match.
"We spent three days trying to get through (to the FIFA website) and it kept on crashing," Rowe said.
The fiasco follows the late printing of a batch of tickets by British-based company Byrom Inc. that left some overseas fans ticketless.
Junji Yoichi, a 36-year-old Japanese fan, said his group of four friends were forced to split up outside the England-Sweden match.
"We all tried again and again to get through on the website but it kept timing out," he said. "Only one of us got tickets. We wanted to go to other games but we couldn't get through."
Japanese police were meanwhile cracking down on scalpers.
In northern Sapporo, which hosted Germany's 8-0 rout of Saudi Arabia on Saturday, a 56-year-old German man and a 53-year-old Japanese woman were arrested for allegedly scalping World Cup tickets, police said.
The couple was caught in the act selling two tickets for 8,000 yendollars) each to a male and female resident of Sapporo around 7:20 pmbefore the match near the Sapporo Dome, police said.
Other scalpers in Saitama, holding up a sign in English and Japanese saying "I need a ticket," were selling tickets for 20,000 yen per seat.
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I saw it last week, and thought it was ok, but don't like being left feeling like it's not a complete film at the end.
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Today is the day.
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Lost for words
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I saw that this morning - 9000 yen for the pack - great value.
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With you on the hope, go-ireland, but I'm not too sure how realistic it is.
First rounds of the WC - a 1-0 win is all you need. The time to peak is in the second half of June when it really matters. For now, just get through.
Ganbare greens
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Don't come from a religious background at all - in many peoples case thats got nothing to do with it.
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France in trouble now. They MUST win to stay in tonight....gonna be interesting.