the darkerside to rants

Gee,

this thing is turning into a sports blog today.

Anyway, Edmonton won game six 4:0 over Carolina, which is good. Game Seven on Monday, and I think they have a shot at getting the Cup.

On that note. Stephen Harper, current Prime Minister of Canada (for you yanks, the Canadian version of the President) showed up to the game and (as far as I could tell) was sitting in the middle of all the other fans. If Bush would have shown up at a Hockey game in Carolina, I am sure he’d be the only one in the stadium… Terror, you know (ties nicely into the earlier post about the US football team in Germany right now)

What a game, lots of cards, three guys off the field and the US got out of it 1:1 thanks to the help of the Italians who hit their own goal once (queue nasty remark about the US always needing help of allies to accomplish anything).

Unlike earlier this week the US actually tried to get the ball, which is good, last game they looked like they didn’t want to get close to it, maybe they thought it was a bomb?

After all, the FIFA had organized two hotels for the team, but they rather stayed at the Rammstein Airforce base, due to “security concerns”. Geez.

Now Group E is pretty much open again, Ghana could make it, the US (in theory) could make it…. Italy must be scared.

[Currently listening to: Jericho from the album "Putumayo Presents: Women of the World - Celtic II" by Susan Mckeown And The Chanting House]
So earlier in the week the CZ declassed the US in a way that one had to wonder how the US actually made it into the world cup.

When they took to the field today against Ghana one would have expected that Ghana would just sink like a rust bucket. But instead Ghana turned it around and actually schooled the CZ.

I am by far not a football fan per se, watching sports on TV in general I find boring, but I do make exceptiions for things like the World Cup and the final eight during the NHL playoffs (will Edmonton survive tonight’s sixth game?).

The thing about football is that the game who usually wants it more gets it, in this case, both teams wanted it equally bad and then luck and talent come into play. I am not quite sure if it was all talent that made the difference here, but Ghana clearly showed the CZ how to play the beautiful game.