The Carthage Eagles (in my mind the best nickname in the tournament) take on Al Akhdar.
Tunisia is playing in its fourth World Cup and has never made it past the first round, although they were the first African team to win a World Cup match, when they beat Mexico 3-1 in Argentina.
Saudi Arabia is making its fourth appearance in the World Cup and fourth straight to boot. Saudi Arabia reached the second round in 1994, but were blown out in 1998 and 2002. Germany posted an 8-0 win over Saudi Arabia in 2002. Mohammed Al Anbar, "the Ronaldinho of the Desert", is questionable for the match.
8. Look at how Australia qualified and my name and you'll see why.
6. Yes they are, we'll see how the allocation of spots goes for 2010 with that and then the host being in Africa, I predict much complaining from CONMEBOL and UEFA.
Fifa believe red cards should be rescinded only in the case of mistaken identity, and criticised the FA for rescinding three of the first six of this Premiership season on the grounds of referee error. The implication is that Fifa want governing bodies and officials to save face for each other, however big the error. The FA are right, but they must go further. It has to become as easy to challenge a yellow card as a red and as easy for smaller clubs to successfully appeal as it is for the big three. We've never had a successful appeal, even backed by blatant evidence.
Not to sound like a history nerd, but I have a notebook, in which I write down phrases or gestures that need explanation. The middle finger, checkmate, cleaning clocks, stuff like that. I research them later, because I am a dork like that.
Thanks Bob! And on Greg...Er, I mean my birthday as well. I feel like the Belle of the Ball. Just wait for the Germany/Poland match...I've been writing those down for months.
29 Is that like the Truman anecdote where his wife was asked to tone down Truman's use of the word manure? Her response: "You don't know how many years it took me to tone it down to that!"
in response to 55,actually, in the religion of Islam, praise is due only to God, and in the case of the prophet Mohammed, we say peace and blessings upon him. Not praise be to him. Only God and not a mere man, is worthy of such praise
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But I've been wrong before.
6. Yes they are, we'll see how the allocation of spots goes for 2010 with that and then the host being in Africa, I predict much complaining from CONMEBOL and UEFA.
Next time, that spot will be much easier for the South American side to get as Oceania will be sending somebody like New Zealand or Tahiti out there.
Or does he say something like "Omar Al-a Gamadi"
I don't know about rescinding bad red cards. You would need a real smoking gun to show that the ref was on the take instead of just screwing up.
Fifa believe red cards should be rescinded only in the case of mistaken identity, and criticised the FA for rescinding three of the first six of this Premiership season on the grounds of referee error. The implication is that Fifa want governing bodies and officials to save face for each other, however big the error. The FA are right, but they must go further. It has to become as easy to challenge a yellow card as a red and as easy for smaller clubs to successfully appeal as it is for the big three. We've never had a successful appeal, even backed by blatant evidence.
clean= knock the dust off
You know, I had never realized that's where it came from. I've just been saying it forever.
But that makes sense.
"To clock" someone can also mean "to hit them in the face."
Your behavior is not dorkish in my book. I think it's admirable. People usually just ask me those sorts of questions all the time.
I know lot of farm phrases from my father, but they are not repeatable in this forum since they all involve excrement.
I think a typical dairy farmer must spend a lot of time dealing with that issue and has time to kill and hence comes up with a metaphor involving it.
World Cup Comment of the Tournament so far!
Until they take on Spain and they get whupped.
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