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I do have an obssession with football. Unfortunately many people where I live [in Florida] do not share my enthusiasm. I prefer to see the World Cup and enjoy it. I will be listening to the 主播大秀, DW on the Internet, Univision on TV, and RDP and Radio Nacional de Angola on Shortwave for my World Cup Games.

I'm from the US and will be traveling around Europe - mostly in Germany - during the world cup. We do not have tickets to any games, but we have devised a plan to see as much action as possible by going to the fanzone in host cities and by being in specific cities for specific matches:
10 June We're in London to watch England*
11 June in Gelsenkirchen to see USA v Czech
17 June in Prague to see Czech v Ghana
20 June in Berlin to see Germany v Ecuador
21 June in Amsterdam to see Netherlands v Argentina

*Does anyone have any recommendations on where to watch England's opener while in London?

Yes I have an obsession with the WC, the mere fact I am here indicates that. I am starting a new job on 12th June and am kicking myself for it. So heres my plan to watch as much as I can:

Buy a pocket TV and have my lunch at 2pm, so I can watch the first half of that game. Finish at 5pm and watch the game sitting in my car. Finish, drive 40 miles home, and I will have Sky Plussed the evening game, where I will watch delayed coverage of it, finish it, and then watch the 2nd half of the afternoon game that I missed whilst at work, hopefully not finding out the result in the process. Now thats a plan! Am I obsessed?

no jwalant, that doesn't sound obsessive at all! i guess one of the perks of the job here is that all the journalists have TVs on their desks (with which we can watch all the hundreds of feeds of news and sport from around the world - though of course i think we know what people will be watching at 2,5 & 8pm!)
I have already started to daydream about what it would be like on Sunday 9 July if Andy Murray was in the Wimbledon men's final in the afternoon and England in the World Cup final in the evening...
Claire, blog editor

I've written a program that has all the world cup information you would want (team info, stadium info, scores, calendar) on a Palm OS device. If you have a Treo phone then you can even download the scores wirelessly. However for the scores to be downloadable someone has to update them. That will be me - I'll be watching all 64 games! It's going to be an intense month and I'm really excited.

PS: sorry didnt want this to sound like an ad, the program is free btw.

I have a WC addiction, and being a Muslim female, I wont be any bars drinking or anything, just at home enjoying the time away from Uni and watching it at home with family. And bantering with friends via txt and online.

I am a university student in California who is obsessed with the world cup. Though I can't be in Europe to more fully appreciate the atmosphere, I have recently combined my goal of watching as much of the WC as possible at the british pub down the hill from my house with an ardent effort not to procrastinate on my thesis so I can finish it before June 9th. With my record of procrastination after 4 years of school, finishing a paper anytime before zero hour on the due date is a mind-boggling Herculean feat. Too bad I'll miss the USA-Italy game due to graduation... Viva la copa!

I have been running my own World Cup blog and it of similar topic to that the 主播大秀's. See at hworldcup.blogger.com

Johnny foreigner? "Enguland" have'nt arf learnt how to dive , this will be your downfall,"YOU HAVE TO BE HONEST TO WIN AT THIS LEVEL" cant wait for the start of the WORLD CUP to watch REAL footballer's, "FORZA ECOSSE"

Does the person who compiled your top 10 world cup strikers article think that Just Fontaine is some kind of water feature?

Jeremy, you might want to check out the Clapham Grand for the England opening game. I haven't been there, but it looks pretty impressive - - they've got a 40-metre screen!

I'm so excited that I've had to start my World Cup 2006 on Pro Evolution Soccer on my PS2. I've got a patched version of the game so all the teams have correct squads, kits etc. and yes I play every game. Tonight I'll be playing Spain .v. Ukraine and Tunisia .v. Saudi Arabia. It's so realistic that it just wish 9th June was here now. Let's hope it's not too realisitc though, England lost 3 - 2 to Paraguay in their opening game !!

The Tale of "Lucky Saw"

During Euro 1996 i was doing some DIY outside, watching the game on the telly through the front window with a tenon saw in my hand.

My little sister was inside watching the England group games (Scotland as i recall). She called me in to fetch something from a high shelf at which point England scored.

Putting down the saw i had carried in on the table Scotland nearly equalised. I sat on the sofa, saw in hand and England scored again.

For the rest of the tournament (inc penalty shoot outs) i had to watch the games with "Lucky Saw" in hand.

I didn't have it for the Germany game (in the pub i think i may have been arrested) and we lost!

Years later, my dad admitted he watched the Norwich playoff semi final against Wolves with the saw in hand as an omen, we won of course!

I wonder where it is now?

Mark is just going to have to gut it out and keep drinking, like every good OCD. That's what being obsessive is all about. It's about not being able to let go: not being able to let go of that pint glass; not being able to let go of the game despite his team's absence from The Big Tournament...

Being ever so sad, I have a collection of notebooks dating back to 1974 with all games and results from every World Cup.
This year I have finally put pen and paper away and have a series of Excel spreadsheets with my (and some friends) predictions, plus, of course, the one that will contain the actual results as they happen.
Work will suffer badly during the month of June...

But hey! Once every four years...

Er, well, ok, every two years 鈥斅營 am the same at the Euro Championship.

sad gits

I can't wait for World Cup. I just wish that I can watch all the games. I will be luck if I watch 10 % of it. I am in Boston, MA USA. During game times I am working. Do you guys know any website that I can watch the games from. Or better; Record so that I can watch it at home later?

PS: Of course then all they trying to dodge people who wants to tell you the scores and wants to talk about the game is a whole other issue

Can someone explain to me why we in this country have an obsession for playing in red shirts. I thought our national colours were white shirts blue shorts with a red trim. Is this all to do with the fact that we won the world cup in 1966 in red ? I cannot see why when we are at home we play in red like today against Jamaica, or in the world cup against Sweden we will be playing in red, WHY >? there is no colour clash and why shouldn't we be wearing the traditional white shirts. I am tired of us wearing red to placate either TV requirements or over sentiment. Does anyone else agree with me ? The only time we should be playing in red is away from home when there is a colour clash ie Poland or Finland perhaps but not as a matter of course.
Maybe in tournaments there is a toss of a coin to decide colours but surely that is not necessary if there is no significant colour clash.

Ian