A nice game, with lovely goals all around. The scrappy Uruguayans fought to the end.
Netherlands 3, Uruguay 2
July 6, 2010 • 2:26 pm
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you gotta love hard played, exciting soccer…
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An excellent game.
So far, so good for my “through the glass darkly” prognosis of a Holland vs. Germany final.
Alas, there is now a question mark to the Germany playing in the final as Paul Octopus, vulgarly and misleadingly called as “the Psychic”, has predicted a Spanish victory in the remaining semifinal. Indeed, I shall insist that Paul will from now on called as “the Perfect Bayesian” instead of that sadly misguided and sensational description.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/sport/soccer/article536017.ece/Paul-the-octopus-predicts-Spain-win-over-Germany
Moreover, the Dutch victory gave extra confirmation to the view that has gained increasing acceptance among the cognoscentis: teams whose players do not appeal often to teh Ceiling Cat,
increase thereby their chances to win. Indeed, there even seems to exist a similar negative correlation between success and invocations of teh Basement Cat as vocal and unrestrained curses where all aspects of the nether realm of teh Basement Cat are displayed risk the Red Card, a major manifestation of feline disfavor.
Yup, our neighbors can keep their flags and banners up a while longer.
yay!
http://wimharwig.com/2010/07/06/soccer/
G-d must really hate the heathen Dutch.
About the most secular nation on earth.
Halleluja!
“We got the whole (natural) world in our hands!”
Hey, Uruguay wouldn’t fare much better in that… though most are Christians here, the State/Church division is quite clearly marked, and it’s been so since the beginnings of the XX Century.
that game was sooo lame…except for the last 2 minutes.
## 3 & 7:
Apparently you guys missed that Wesley Sneijder converted to catholicism just before the championship. He was rewarded with 5 goals (so far).
Agreed with KM – a poor game marked by poor goal keeping in the first half. Sometimes though the more mistakes the more exciting the game…