A sports-filled weekend!

[Cat]

Well, the bf hit a festival in my town...it was cool, I was able to see some fun stands and do some small donations to organizations I like.


The we walked to the pun where we spent 2 hours just watching/talking about sports (it wasn't crowded there, or I would have felt bad about being there)

NYY/NYM and World Cup.....I must say, I was one of the Yanks making fun of soccer, but it was rather interesting! Was sad to see Cameroon leave, though.

For todays sports, was upset to see Italy tie and Ivory Coast lose but at least the Yankees won!!!!

To think, I used to hate sports Hey, I might even go to a local soccer match! (I cannoy afford baseball tickets )

[ottid]

For todays sports, was upset to see Italy tie and Ivory Coast lose

*Ahem*

New Zealand, ranked 73 spots below Italy in the FIFA World Rankings, managed to score in the first 7 minutes of their game, and Italy only managed to score after a penalty was given for a, um, shirtgrabbing *cough*dive*cough* in the box.

GO ALL WHITES*! You can qualify! WOOOO HOOOOO!

*Please, no shots at the nickname, it comes as a play on the rugby teams name, the All Blacks, the footballers wearing white, and the rugby players wearing black, we also have the Tall Blacks as a play on the same, actually, I feel like listing all the team names... Silver Ferns, Black Sticks, Black Ferns, Tall Ferns, White Socks, Black Cocks (ah, that one is badminton...), Black Caps, plus more, but I've currently forgotten them...

[Cat]

I'm part Italian, only reason I was rooting for them The N Zealand keeper was AWESOME!

[ottid]

Hehe, they did a wee thing on the news last night, the "cost" of the NZ players combined, is less than the "cost" of the Italian Goalie... In some cases it is good to be minnows, I just hope, like Ricki Herbert (the manager) that people start realising that NZ got to the finals for its merit, not because they "had an easy run to get there". Oh, and I am pretty stoked that Mark Paston is an awesome keeper, especially with the amount of shots on target by the Italians!

[Spiffy McMoron]

Italy only managed to score after a penalty was given for a, um, shirtgrabbing *cough*dive*cough* in the box.

There's a bit of World Cup fever going on at work, and there's been a lot of smack talk about the World Cup pool. One co-worker (from England, and therefore an English fan) sent around the following link through e-mail to annoy our (Italian) head secretary:

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I AGREE

[ottid]

Yup, already seen that one

I'm not sure if I want tomorrow to come, when NZ will know if the All Whites have made it into the round of 16 or not. We can dominate Paraguay, right? Oh dear, couldn't we have had Paraguay and Italy first? I would rather be facing Slovakia right now.

Anyway, two of m three teams have made it, England (boyfriends team) and the other team that I am well and truly backing to win (got to be a little bit realistic, right?) Argentina.