USA Win Goup C!!!!

[504blues]

The range of emotions I've gone through today was like nothing I'd ever experienced before. At least from a sporting perspective, I haven't felt so alive since that goal from Dickov v Gillingham at Wembley, but the difference is that while the Gillingham game was my sort of no-turning-back-now moment as a City fan of just about two years at that time, this feels like a more personal moment because our national team feels a little bit more mine than City does. Frank, Steven etc may not agree with me there, but I personally think that, as such a far-flung Blue - of 13 years, for what that's worth - it's easier to take emotional ownership of your own national team than it is to do the same with a club 3,600 miles away. Nothing against City - It's just the truth.

That said, as the group ended up being much more difficult than those fuckstains at The Sun etc. wanted us to believe, I'm pleased that both the U.S. and England - my sort of 'second' national team that I'll support whenever the U.S. isn't involved - are through to the knockout rounds. I do think that we're worthy group winners (should've finished with 7 points, possibly 9 if not for a great save from Green in the second half of the US-ENG game), and England got what it deserved after how awful it was against Algeria, but the important thing is that we're both through, and since there's next to no chance that we'll meet each other again in this tournament, we should all be pulling for each other from here on in. From where I'm sitting, the further both the U.S. and England go in this competition, the better: England winning helps keep U.S. television ratings up, hence more people keeping glued to the game, and U.S. football success brings even more new people into the game, some of which inevitably picking up City as their club team. What's not to like there?

Right on. The growth of football in the United States hinges on the success of the national side. I caught the fever during our run in '02 and its been no looking back ever since.

 

[Interstate 5]

Am psyched to see the US get through to the sixteen, however way happier to see England there too. We should be there and we're gonna plumb-bob germany( the act of letting the forty year old tool rape and pillage that young german team apart) from an easily downward position. Let's hope they can get their shit together and play as the best team that they are, and not a bunch of fucking `likely lads ' who are given' it all as per John `fucking' Terry . Time to change the old Hierachy!!!!

Huh?

 

[malg]

Well done to America for qualifying but don't go giving it the big'n just yet!

Why not? did we not just win?? Thought it was over now? ?? What a strange tournament this "world cup".. stupid name too.. should be "world soccer domination challenge" ...

when do we get the trophy?

Quality. Get in.<br /><br />-- Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:24 am --<br /><br />

Well said Mac!! I have been a City fan for over 30 years! I am one demented bastard!

What I like is seeing players that really take the whole concept of the World Cup to heart, and your Captain did that for me today.

However, I think sometimes the USA as a whole need to tone it down a bit as the humility aspect would lead to much more empathy from fans of other countries.Witness Cameroon in previous tournaments. Their desire was not based on a stringent belief that they could win, more a belief that they could cause an upset and enjoy it at the same time.

If you can somehow get that you would have more fans wanting you to do well.

Christ, someone on the 'fuck off Scots, Welsh and Irish city fans' thread needs to take a note of your comments there!

 

[NEBlue1]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfS9kbyfiMM[/youtube]
Scenes from the Captain Jacks bar in Lincoln, about an hour down Interstate 80 from here.

The World Cup needs more moments like that.

 

[HamannCheese]

Fair play USA. Best team in the group ;)

 

[MCFC-alan88]

Some people are real arseholes. People saying that England are a better team than America, who are you to judge? they are a better TEAM, they might not have better players but they certainly are a better team in respect to attitude. Well played USA, good luck.

 

[mcfc_nick]

happy for the US and actually wanted them to get through, but they've pretty much single handedly knocked us out, we've now got to go through the Germans and then the Argentinians before we could even get to the semis

 

[MCFC-alan88]

happy for the US and actually wanted them to get through, but they've pretty much single handedly knocked us out, we've now got to go through the Germans and then the Argentinians before we could even get to the semis

Or we could have not played like a shower of shit and beaten Algeria, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

 

[Seasideblue]

If England want to win the WC

they have to beat

last 16 Germany
1/4 final Argentina
semi Spain
final Brazil

That is if all results go to form obviously

But WOW NOTHING LIKE DOING IT THE HARD WAY FFS :-)

 

[MCFC-alan88]

If England want to win the WC

they have to beat

last 16 Germany
1/4 final Argentina
semi Spain
final Brazil

That is if all results go to form obviously

But WOW NOTHING LIKE DOING IT THE HARD WAY FFS :-)

Odds are good that we'd have had to play them at some point anyway to actually win the thing. So the round in which we play them is largely irrelivant.