quarters highlights | starhub’s cracking me up!

i thought argentina would win, though i wanted germany to prove me wrong.
germany won, and what a hard-fought win that was. like spider said, the blame’s squarely on the argentinian team, most specifically the manager, for who in his right mind would take out 2 attacking midfielders for defensive ones when they’re only 1-0 up? they’re playing against the host country for god’s sake. surely they didn’t expect germany to just give up and gift the win to them?? they should have kept on attacking, instead of holding back and defending their slim advantage. kudos to the german team for being tenacious. for never giving up. for going all out to get the equalizer. and kudos to pak leman for the amazing saves that he made, both during the match and the penalty shootout. by the way, don’t you think the argentinian substitute keeper looks like mcfly the dad in back to the future??

i thought portugal would win, though i wanted england to prove me wrong.
no luck there. portugal won. and i suspect ronaldo wont be having the time of his life in the premier league for months to come. i certainly felt a certain amount of animosity towards him. irrational yes. and i’m not even english. if you ask me, the blame’s on eriksson. what was he thinking putting just one striker up front? no wonder rooney was as agitated as he was. that’s no excuse for his red-card behaviour of cos. but still, you wonder if things would have been different if eriksson had placed 2 strikers up front instead of just one.

as i’m typing this, the brazil-france match is underway. i’m not much of a brazil fan. i think they’re over-rated. but, unless france proves me wrong, i think it’s gonna be a germany-brazil final. with germany to win. yeah!

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starhub’s coverage of the world cup is hilarious. pretty hilarious that we the sports group subscribers had to pay extra for this. what’s the point of subscribing to the sports group? but hey, the people at starhub said that we’re paying for premium service ok! we don’t just get the matches shown live, we get the WHOLE PACKAGE. like i said, it’s hilarious…

1. hilarious that even though we have the luxury of 4 channels to choose from (4 channels i tell u! woohooo!), we’re in fact watching the finals on only one. hahhha.
2. hilarious that the amazing programmers at starhub know exactly when to break for commercials. their timing is perfect. case in point: the germany-argentina match has just ended. the germans have won from the shootout. we see an angry group of argentinian players pushing and shoving, making their way to the referee. yess there’s gonna be a fight! and at that very moment, the brilliant people at starhub decides to break for a commercial. hilarious!
3. hilarious that we’ve been treated to post-match interviews in every imaginable language except english. unless enland’s playing of cos. what’s the point of showing these interviews if they couldn’t be understood by us singaporeans? i’m not saying the interviews must be conducted in english. i’m just asking for some translation. or, at the very least, the brilliant people at starhub could choose not to show those non-english interviews so that we viewers would be spared the agony of watching one of those and not comprehending a single word.

but hey…we get the WHOLE PACKAGE ok. like i said….hilarious!