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The Quadrennial Global Round-Ball Extravaganza
Ozymandias:
Frankly, I came out of this final wishing the 3rd place match was the final instead and thinking Germany deserved this Cup more than either of the finalists.
But whatever, Germany didn't play up to snuff enough to get into the finals and Spain did take this one as fair as anyone can. This match was still a disgraceful game regardless and most of the fun was derived from seeing how many Dutch players could get a card before one was thrown off. The fact that it took until the second half of extra time was pretty impressive!
Inlander:
The third-place game is always infinitely more entertaining than the final because both teams in the third-place play-off want to win it, but neither particularly cares if they lose.
Jimor:
I had to leave home at the 85th minute because I was working TV crew for a playoff soccer game for a regional pro league.
After all the World Cup games I've seen, I wasn't quite ready for a game score of 7-3 (home team won).
My general camera role was to try to keep a relatively tight shot on the ball with the immediate group of players (3 or 4), and man, is that a tough assignment (as opposed to the wide shot of most of one half or the other). The ball would shoot away from my screen, and it would take me a few moments to find the ball on the pitch and refocus on whatever new group was playing it.
It's always interesting seeing exactly how coverage of a particular sport comes together from the inside like that. Of course, we only had 4 cameras instead of 5 zillion, but that's still enough to capture the essence of what's going on, and provide additional angles for replays and closeups of players. A cool experience.
KvP:
How will the World Cup impact South Africa economically? Odds are, it'll hurt pretty badly.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: KvP on 12 Jul 2010, 19:27 ---How will the World Cup impact South Africa economically? Odds are, it'll hurt pretty badly.
--- End quote ---
I think you might've missed the ten pages where it was pretty much agreed that quality of life South Africa has always sucked and probably will always suck
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