when it comes to socc^H^H^H^H football, and especially during championships, there is no such thing as 'Brits' :P 

yeah, by the same logic, Germany would have 16 football teams. 

devisions in Germany like England, Scotland Northern Ireland and Wales?

Each of those has many regions and counties. 

Oh just fuck off and lose, will you?! 

Fuck you.

I have spoken.

We're shitty enough as it is, drawing with algeria (I'd never heard of them) - don't rub it in. You losers. 

Being a wanker about football is an Englisman's privilege. 

I look forward to england getting knocked the fuck out. Means less fucking flags everywhere and less 'news' coverage.

And frankly basketball is a vastly superior sport anyway. 

 

Watch the Celtics-Lakers series then watch an England match.

No comparison. 

But yes, the last few England matches have been pretty dire. 

Just look at France and Italy in the World Cup. The Yanks have been keeping things exciting with their comeback heroics, at least. Who knows, they could even make it to the semi-finals :-) 

The flags get on my nerves as well, world cup time is apparently "we're so great" time. Every car has at least two flags on it somewhere. 

... has never been so strong regarding past world cup... Indeed, if they defeat Ghana (that is not impossible), US team will go in semi-final... then they will have to defeat either Urugay or South Korea (actually Urugay leads 1-0) that is alos clearly possible... But then will come the real challenge, as Spain and Netherland are very strong players...
However, regarding the fighting spirit they shown, that they can win, and go to final !

I wish France team to show same heroic fighting spirit when playing....

Go USA go ! 

It is not Spain, but Brasil.... even worst...

Anyway: good luck ;) 

Ghana won USA 2-1. great match while Ghnan players where quite rude... anyway... USA wil not reach quarter final... sorry :P 

australia, england and usa are bollox are soccer. It's cultural. 

for you soccer/football fans who can't be there in person, here's the next best thing.

play quake like you're at the world cup!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z0vInGCjbE

download:
http://necros.quaddicted.com/downloads/q1vuvu.zip

this thing is so annoying, it will wake up every monster in the map.

totally ripped off from this: http://www.doomworld.com/vb/wads-mods/51488-vuvuzela-doom-weapon/ 

@necros: Awesome.... but I doubt it will be ranked at the weapon of the yar :P

@stevenaaus: australia, england and usa are bollox are soccer. It's cultural... not England and USA/Australia have the same game quality... England has some very good teams (Chelsea, Manchester, Arsenal, etc...), while I know none from USA/Australia.... though... 

Nice one. You should make that a direct video response to the Doom one; it might start a trend and people will port it to other games as well. 

awesome work :)

dont work well in e1m3 and my sm123 :)

fishes and zombies are totaly wasted :) 

England has some very good teams (Chelsea, Manchester, Arsenal)


Aahahahahahahaha.

OK, in fairness Man U does have more than 1 English player in the starting 11... Just. 

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In-ger-land, In-ger-land, In-ger-land!

Ha! 

no one talks to Fritz anymore? 

Somewhat.

The current borders don't follow historical kingdoms/duchies/tribal areas too closely, because there was a lot of switchery. Current German states were formed after WW2.

But germany has 16 states with their own constitutions, parliaments, history, "counties", and historical regions, national minorities and languages and dialects.

My state has Frisian and Danish minorities, with their own party guaranteed a seat in the parliament, their languages protected and intact, their own schools, and Frisian towns have their Frisian names on the place-name signs.

There are historical regions like Anglia, North Frisia, Schleswig (partly in Denmark), Holstein and the Duchy of Lauenburg (the Duke is missing).

These regions can't all be their own states, since Germany would consist of lots of small independent states then (it actually did work like that once), so there were a couple reforms, and the allies after WW2 mostly created the current set of 16 somewhat bigger states (these roughly include historical regions though, except the large kingdom/province of Prussia, which was exterminated).

Under Nazi rule, the individual states were weakened and the idea was one centralized country "led" from Berlin. That didn't happen though.

Pretty sure Bavaria would love to have their own national team. They think they're special like that. The rest, not so sure. I was more kidding than anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany

Germany is a federal republic, not least because the allies deemed it the safest option. If the states are caught in their own rivalries, over money for example, it's unlikely to unite and go all Nazi on anyone.

Germans have federal ID cards etc, though. The individual states also have no armies, but they have their own police forces.