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TehStu

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I thought the volley was good, but the lob from half way was great. I remember watching Seaman pick one of those out.

Speaking of which, Solo finally conceded one. Good run.

Edit - 540 minutes without conceding, apparently.

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Fry Crayola

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After having realised the final had actually kicked off, Japan played pretty well and made a game of it. A shame that goal from Heath killed the whole thing off, because the stage was set for a totally gripping comeback.

Ah well - probably the most entertaining match of the tournament. If it takes some comedy defending to make that happen, I'll take comedy defending every time.

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Gabe

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It often isn't the case, but I think it's fair to say that the best team over the course of the tournament won. Well done USA!

I do hope no major tournament is played on artificial pitches ever again though, I do think it was detrimental to games.

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Fry Crayola

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It often isn't the case, but I think it's fair to say that the best team over the course of the tournament won. Well done USA!

I do hope no major tournament is played on artificial pitches ever again though, I do think it was detrimental to games.

You should have seen the pitch I was playing on at the weekend. It was like a rubber carpet rather than any attempt at artificial grass, and the ball just wouldn't stop bouncing. Scraped chunks of skin off my leg in the process.

How I longed for the rubber crumb and plastic blades that I'm used to.

The next Women's World Cup is in France, so we should be all grass for that, thankfully.

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SeanR

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Sepp Blatter blames france and germany for Qatar world cup:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33401602

French and German presidents applied political pressure prior to the 2018 and 2022 World Cup votes, according to Fifa president Sepp Blatter.

He alleges ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his German counterpart Christian Wulff sought to influence voting before Qatar and Russia were chosen as respective hosts in 2010.

Blatter, 79, said: "That is the reason why we now have a World Cup in Qatar."

What if he's right? What if they applied pressure to get Qatar the WC so as to advance their own concerns in the region?

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BitterToad

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Then it's still corrupt? It's bizzarre the way the Fifa execs are handling all of this.

"It's not corrupt! Well... it is... So I'm leaving! Except I'm not leaving because it's not corrupt! Except it is! But it's the French! Not old Sepp!"

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Fry Crayola

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It's all getting worse for the Micronesians, as they were beaten 46-0 by Vanuatu.

Does fuck all for Vanuatu's chances in the Pacific Games though, as Fiji and Tahiti played out a 0-0 draw. Vanuatu can still qualify for the Olympics, as Tahiti will be represented by France there.

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Fry Crayola

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The 31-0 against Australia turned American Samoan keeper Nicky Salapu to drink for a while. He also used to play FIFA World Cup 2002 as Samoa against Australia on easy level just so he could hammer in the goals and try to right his head. Poor guy.

For British/Irish fans in pursuit of progress, yesterday's European matches went very well. Coleraine drew 1-1 at Levadia Tallinn to progress on away goals, The New Saints progressed by beating B36 4-1 at home and 6-2 on aggregate. Lincoln Red Imps of Gibraltar, if we're being tenuous and/or riling Spain here, came from behind at FC Santa Coloma to win 2-1 and progress to the second qualifying round at the second time of asking. Shamrock Rovers did it in style in the Europa League, progressing by defeating Progrès Niedercorn 3-0.

Progressive stuff, all!

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