Come on.....

What's with Rooney's rug?

Best I've seen them play in years....Although I only tune in once every 4...

I like soccer but I don't like the way players have very little respect for themselves or the referee....the way they crowd the referee like adolescents. ...!

FIFA world cup, neither of them 'F's stand for soccer dear boy

That was the most ambitious and hungry preformance in living memory, specially for an opening game, but everyone's still whingeing about Rooney etc, it is what it is, we're no world super power anymore, we should enjoy the beautiful game and a fighting performance win or lose. Badge, fetch me my soap box forthwith

Soccer - Association Football my dear boy. To distinquish it from the other codes.

Here is a soap box - and there's room for 2 on it.

Great game, great game.
(Have I just quoted someone there). If that is the opening game we might do well and Costa Rica have helped us out. Not us, the team I mean - I lapsed into pundit talk there. (I think the Australian commentators are largely an articulate bunch by the way).

Blooding a young team will work and imagine the experience in 2016 at the Euros.

My appetite has been wetted and I will come back for more. The problem with Rooney is that he is not pretty enough.
If he had a decent haircut then maybe he would score more. Every star attacking player in all codes knows a decent cut and a modicum of hair gel
is the key.

I still would yellowcard an entire team if they spoke to me like that.
The refs at the grassroots give up their free time to ref and they can't be treated with disdain.

England could have won. There were lots of 'chances' but I see I have met my quota for cliches.

Soccer is a word that can out of the UK champ

I laugh at how the poms now snootily disown it

well you disowned Pieterson, it's bloody football and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise, all other codes are called egg chasing

this is fact not opinion, IMO

Pietersen disowned us! He was born in SA but in reality was always a Pom

Isn't there a show on UK TV called Soccer AM?

Here you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word)

""soccer" was in fact the most common way of referring to association football in the UK until around the 1970s, when it began to be perceived incorrectly as an Americanism"

Not a good advert for hair implants is he! What a *** mess.

He would have been better off just leaving it and letting it go.

I know...

I'm not clear why it's such a bad word.

I think it's because in the States, and Australia it's not yet the No 1 Popular /TV code and this jars those who are only interested in one code.

I'm happy that Australia finds space for them all.

I'm not sure. Football ("played with the foot", as we are reminded)
is also egg-chasing. Even Aussie Rules is mostly a game of skill played with the foot - even if fads come and go where the hand is favoured.
Any game where you have to use your foot is chasing as you can't even pick the bloody thing up when you lose control of it..

Every ball game apart from basketball is egg-chasing.

Basketball comes to mind as the ball barely leaves the control of any one player!

Anyone see the 'crowd' trouble in the UK and Italy.
The Daily Mail were beating the story up.

We had a fight in Devises!

Pictures of lagered up spectators! Whatever next!

don't forget soccer saturday, quality program too. Hey if the yanks want the word they can have it, it's football, end of so nuur


I have to say the SBS coverage has been brilliant, classic matches in between, abbsolute football heaven.

little test for you, say football with a pint of stella in your hand, then say soccer with a nice single malt whiskey. Soccer sounds snooty, there you go, debate settled