JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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GJDailleult
But, except in'06, those teams didn't have Podolski.
Posted in: England needs Rooney to hit form against Germany
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GJDailleult
Judging from all the video clips on YouTube of wild celebrations in bars and on the streets after the goal against Algeria, I think you would need a ridiculously large auditorium. But don't worry, high school and college football practice gets started soon, that should get y'all good and excited.
Missed the first half of the USA game, but looked like they could have gone a couple of rounds farther with a decent striker. Altidore was definitely the weak link in attack, and the guy who subbed for him was even worse.
Bad luck for South Korea, but if you give away a free goal like that in an evenly matched game, you will probably lose. Nice finish, but the goalie's blunder set it up.
Posted in: Ghana, Uruguay reach quarterfinals
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GJDailleult
No idea why this has to be re-posted, but I will.
FACT - The architect of the current Afghanistan policy is one Stanley McChrystal.
FACT - The "man of honor" was involved in a high level cover-up of a sensitive incident and intentionally deceived the American public.
Posted in: Obama fires McChrystal; Petraeus picked for Afghanistan
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GJDailleult
Having read the article yesterday, I got the impression that after decades of passive, embedded reporting on the military by the US media, McChrystal and his team just got sloppy, and were shooting their mouths off. He didn't clue in that the Rolling Stone guy wasn't there to just write a puff piece, and amazingly he still didn't clue in after RS ran the article by him for fact checking.
He should have been thrown out of the military after the Pat Tillman case anyways.
Posted in: Obama fires McChrystal; Petraeus picked for Afghanistan
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GJDailleult
Wow, this came out of the blue. Maybe there was some news in Australia that he was in trouble, but I didn't see anything about it.
Posted in: Australia gets its 1st female prime minister as Rudd ousted
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GJDailleult
He would have had a hard time justifying not picking him, that's true. But these guys had been together for SIX years. If Domenech hadn't figured out how to handle him after 6 years, when was he planning to figure it out. And if Anelka was unmanageable but he still picked him, then he has to live with it and put up with him. If that includes half-time blow-ups, then you have a half-time blow-up. Then tell him to shut up and get back on the field, instead of letting your team fall apart. It is called being a manager.
The interesting thing is that there is still no word (I think) on who leaked the news of what happened in the dressing room to the media. After how things turned out, somebody must be sweating right now.
Posted in: French coach refuses to shake S African coach's hand
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GJDailleult
The article is now up online on the Rolling Stone website, apparently they decided they wouldn't be able to control the leaks until the magazine comes out on Friday, so no point trying.
So it is there if anybody wants to read it for themselves.
Posted in: Obama rebukes top U.S. commander in Afghanistan
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GJDailleult
As I said on the other thread, hopefully there will be some accountability in France over why Domenech was not removed from the job when it was clear that he was not up to it and that his behavior was damaging to the team. This incident is just another example of that behavior, to go with stuff like proposing to his girlfriend during a post-match interview, selecting lineups based on horoscopes, and generally annoying everybody (there is a stronger expression than annoying but not sure if it is allowed on JT).
Easy to blame selfish, overpaid players, but why would you pick a Class A jackass like Anelka in the first place if you didn't know how to man-manage him. Easy for people to also blame the immigrant make-up of the team and say they are unpatriotic and don't care, which people are doing. But if those two things actually were real problems, then that makes it even more questionable that he was kept on as manager instead of getting someone who could deal with them.
Posted in: French coach refuses to shake S African coach's hand
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GJDailleult
Happy with the refereeing, happy with the ball, happy with not using modern technology, happy with an out-dated disciplinary system which sees star players missing games due to wrong calls.
As long as the money keeps coming in, FIFA will continue to be HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY!!!
Posted in: FIFA happy with standard of refereeing
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GJDailleult
North Korea collapsed after the second goal. Just because of the different skill levels or was there some weird psychological stuff happening? It was like they suddenly stopped believing. Running up the score is not Portugal's problem, as the rules are they have no choice.
Posted in: Portugal pulverizes North Korea 7-0 as N Korea broadcasts game live
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GJDailleult
Dunga has had to fight really hard to get Brazil to play a more realistic (as he sees it) style. He has taken a lot of abuse from people in love with the myths of the Brazilian style, which they never usually lived up to anyways. He really stuck his neck out, and if they win he should get a lot of the credit. Of course if they don't win, the knives might come out very quickly.
With England two things. Capello has never been a national team manager before at an international tournament, club and national team management are very different jobs, and he has no experience with this one. Also maybe England players are just not that good. They all play on teams in England with some of the best players in the world playing with them making them look good.
Italy and France imploding not such big surprises. Italy is too old, and France has been a disaster for a few years now. Neither country did anything about their problems and now they are paying for that.
Posted in: Brazil shines, while other favored teams flop
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GJDailleult
Sure are a lot of corporate fanboys on these comments.
You do realize who paid for the boat don't you? And no, he isn't going to invite any of you out for a cruise to say thanks.
Posted in: BP CEO's yacht outing infuriates Gulf residents
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GJDailleult
Every team has egos and big paychecks.
Other teams don't have a manager who is completely insane (except for 1 other country of course!). Heads will roll in France over the fact this nutcase was able to stay on the job for 6 years.
Posted in: France in shambles after latest internal rift
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GJDailleult
Great games by both Australia and Japan tonight. A handball call either way was the difference in both games.
But for both, winning or losing wasn't anywhere near as important as proving they can play at this level. Both did that now just have to try and get the points next game.
Posted in: Netherlands beats Japan 1-0
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GJDailleult
I have to watch both again to be sure, but if Kewell's "hand ball" for Australia was a red card offense, then Van Persie's "hand ball" should have meant no goal for Holland. Why are there different rules at different ends of the field?
Posted in: Netherlands beats Japan 1-0
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GJDailleult
The Barton double apology thing is amazing stuff. I would think the Republican leadership discussed in advance how they would approach the hearings. Did Barton not get the memo, or did it just not occur to them that they would need to tell anybody in advance to not pull such a crazy stunt and say something so stupid?
Posted in: BP CEO slammed by lawmakers in U.S. Congress
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GJDailleult
First, Obama was criticized by the "right wing nutjobs" (hoserfella's term, not mine) for not taking a more active role in the crisis, now he is being criticized for taking an active role in the crisis.
And of course it was "Obama's Katrina" before it actually became, uh...Obama's Katrina. Personally I think he is handling the situation badly, the soundbite tough-talk does nothing to get a solution, and it was a big mistake in this speech to start going on about long-term energy policy instead of just sticking to the immediate problem. But nobody knew he was going to botch things when they started shouting the Katrina comparisons - just a case of a broken clock being right twice a day.
So the entire Gulf Coast of the USA has been destroyed, and who knows how much more before it stops, but hey it's great news for the red team.
Posted in: Obama accuses BP of recklessness in national TV address
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GJDailleult
When politicians talk up the chance of facing a crisis, it makes you think they know they don't face such a crisis. If they really were facing a crisis, they would be trying to hide it. Japan and Greece (and everybody else) both have the same root problem, deflation due to the end of the era of inflationary credit-expansion economic "growth", but otherwise their individual situations and problems are very different.
Don't mean that Japan doesn't have huge problems, just that throwing the idea of a "Greece like debt crisis" around is just for effect and a good soundbite.
Posted in: Kan warns of Greece-like debt crisis
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GJDailleult
That could have been lifted straight out of an Al-Qaeda fatwa. One of the main "justifications" for Islamic terrorism that.
Posted in: Can Iran deter an Israeli attack?
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GJDailleult
This raid was just a propaganda stunt timed to set up Netanyahu's visit to Washington, and it went wrong. The timing is too obvious to be a coincidence. And that makes a lot more sense than claiming it was a propaganda stunt by the "terrorists", who somehow had advance knowledge that the Israelis would be daft enough to rappel down ropes from a helicopter.
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