Reply to: Who's not watching the world soccer series cup?

[Spacecadet]

"It happened right under his nose!"

"He's got a big nose!"

Wtf was that all about?

potential coleman ball there

[Mich the Tester]

That's normal Dutch TV though isn't it?

Yep. tulipe, all of it. No wonder the porno pay channels do so well here.

[doodab]

I have the advantage of watching on German telly. I can understand the basics but the "quatsch" goes over my head.

[threaded]

Here in Holland they have an hour and a half of pre-match ‘expert analysis’ and predictions, then during half time the ‘expert analysts’ rattle on while the whole country goes for a whizz, then about two and a half hours of post match ‘expert analysis’ including ex-footballists, ex-footballist managers, the Minister of Sports and Health and so on, a comedian, a speed skater and whoever else they can find to sit down and talk tulipe all evening.

That's normal Dutch TV though isn't it?

[Churchill]

"It happened right under his nose!"

"He's got a big nose!"

Wtf was that all about?

[shaunbhoy]

Worse than the football is the post match expert opinion/dissection and posmortem, which to appreciate fully you'd need a double lobotomy.

And also, the "expert" commentary during the match from Whiney Lawrenson and the god-awful Guy Mowbray.

Mowbray ..........as the ball is speeding towards the goal-line............."and the ball is going to go behind!" No tulip Sherlock!
I expect my commentators, particularly on the BEEB, to be informative, erudite, and relatively impartial. If I wanted a hysterical numbskull to state the bleeding obvious I could just have gone down the fooking pub!!
Motty must be wondering just how standards have been allowed to slide so far. There HAS to be someone more clued-up than him.
Amateurish, hysterical, and largely irrelevant. Could be a Plan B for sasguru.

[Mich the Tester]

Worse than the football is the post match expert opinion/dissection and posmortem, which to appreciate fully you'd need a double lobotomy.

Here in Holland they have an hour and a half of pre-match ‘expert analysis’ and predictions, then during half time the ‘expert analysts’ rattle on while the whole country goes for a whizz, then about two and a half hours of post match ‘expert analysis’ including ex-footballists, ex-footballist managers, the Minister of Sports and Health and so on, a comedian, a speed skater and whoever else they can find to sit down and talk tulipe all evening.

[TimberWolf]

Worse than the football is the post match expert opinion/dissection and posmortem, which to appreciate fully you'd need a double lobotomy.

[Mich the Tester]

Bloomberg's news room in NY just went mental when the US scored. The poor anchor and the guest doing a valiant job of continuing with their interview.

So all the fuss this afternoon was about the septics playing soccer?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Bloomberg's news room in NY just went mental when the US scored. The poor anchor and the guest doing a valiant job of continuing with their interview.

[Pogle]

I'm busy, but clientoco have a update on thier intranet
... Which is nice

[Mich the Tester]

WHS - I find it particularly sickening when grubby Ron Manager types start banging on about all the supposed "good" the game does - good my rrrs

It's a funny old game you know, a game of two halves.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Working from home, every opportunity to watch it, but I'm not.

Not a football fan at all, I find the sport dull, the press coverage excessive and the "personalities" involved in the whole business idiotic. I also think it's riddled with cheating, gamesmanship and clannish violence.

WHS - I find it particularly sickening when grubby Ron Manager types start banging on about all the supposed "good" the game does - good my rrrs

[HairyArsedBloke]

[norrahe]

Working from home, every opportunity to watch it, but I'm not.

Not a football fan at all, I find the sport dull, the press coverage excessive and the "personalities" involved in the whole business idiotic. I also think it's riddled with cheating, gamesmanship and clannish violence.

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