On football

I'm ruther surprised to peruse this fine blog and see no mention of the ongoing World Cup anywhere. I understand that people are busy, and Henrik is actually off in Germany watching the games (Where are our daily updates, man?), but what's up with that? The US felt the throes of death today against Ghana, and that hopefully ends the horrendous jingoistic hype that faced the unknowing viewing public (namely me) from the boys and girls at ESPN. Honestly, not every movement of the ball can be compared to a US game, not every foreign player has to have a US counterpart and I don't really care about the last time a team went up 3-2 in the second half in a even-numbered year while wearing white jerseys. It was so bad sometimes I switched to spanish-language-soap-opera-channel Univision, which was more comprehensible even if I only understood the accented Spanish a paltry handful of words at a time. Now how do I pirate the BBC feed?
Brazil ran circles around Japan today in a wonderfully entertaining match, and it's so hard not to love them. They play a beautiful game, and it's all speed and feeling and a untouchable finesse on the ball. There's a reason they win the Cup year after year, and I'll have to tip them for the championship again. Can you tell I'll stay at home to watch the Brazil games?
Which leaves me wondering, how are our foreign-situated TASPers doing? I imagine Egypt must be at least watching the games, if not shutting down for days at a time, and France must be feeling the effects of a national team facing imminent elimination. Right?
So, listeners, any teams you just have a feeling about? Anybody to look out for? And dammit Henrik, tell us what you're up to!

I leave you with a bit of magic