So, it's Germany. It had to be. The Germans simply don't slip up in crucial World Cup group games. So obvious was it that they would beat Ghana and win Group D that I am actually typing this at half-time, when they are still drawing 0-0 - as things stand England will play Ghana in the second round. As if. There's more chance of Peter Crouch and Nicolas Anelka buying an apartment together in a Southern European city, as they preposterously do in the Pringles ad that has just flicked on to my TV screen. Sunday's game already has the ring of a classic, albeit a classic including Mesut Ozil running riot, penalty shoot-out and national depression: Germany v England, 3pm, Bloemfontein. But it rather throws into relief just how difficult a path to the final England now have. - - - Seconds after the final whistle, the sheer relief at beating Slovenia may have obscured the colossal significance of Landon Donovan's goal for the USA against Algeria. As they celebrated, England were relegated to second place in Group C, and handed the route to the final from hell. And of course, Slovenia were knocked out. Hard luck them. Just how tough is it for England? Well, it couldn't be any tougher. If they manage to make it past Germany, they will most likely face Argentina in the quarter-finals. Then Spain. Then Brazil. They are the four teams England would least like to face (with apologies to Holland). It's the team that always beats us, followed by the best team in the competition, followed by the pre-tournament favourites, followed by the country that has won more World Cups than anyone else. Nice. The BBC pundits seemed unconcerned pointing out; a) the way England have got through, beggars can hardly be choosers, and; b) if you want to win the World Cup, you're going to have to beat some good sides. Both fair points, but you have to beat SOME good sides, not all of them. Italy's path through the knock-out rounds in 2006 took in Australia and Ukraine before they got down to serious business and saw off Germany and France. Four years earlier, Brazil faced Belgium, England, Turkey and Germany. Nothing like as intimidating as what lies ahead (or, more probably, doesn't) for this England team. In fact, no team has ever won the World Cup after negotiating such an arduous fixture list. Obvious it may be, but the harder the opponent, the more likely you are to lose. And it is easier to win two difficult games in a row than four difficult games in a row - football is not simply a case of best team wins, regardless of the draw. Big games sap energy from teams. You can only soak up so many punches until a single shot to the chin lays you spark out. We might beat Germany. We might even beat Germany and Argentina. But we're highly unlikely to beat Germany and Argentina and Spain. And we'll never beat Germany and Argentina and Spain and Brazil. It's just too hard. The US, meanwhile, take on Ghana then either Uruguay or Korea. Only after that will it get really tricky, and by that stage Bob Bradley's hard-working but limited side could be in the semi-finals. America in the last four. For England to make it to that point they would have to see off their two greatest football nemeses. The frustrating thing is that it wasn't Donovan's goal that inflicted this on England - it was our own players' wastefulness. All we had to do was better the Americans' result, and Wayne Rooney and Jermain Defoe missed glorious opportunities to ensure we did just that. Yes, under the circumstances, we should be permitted a small toot on our celebratory vuvuzelas after seeing off Slovenia. But without wanting to sound too downbeat, our failure to run up the score means we now have no chance whatsoever of winning the tournament. It would be lovely to be wrong, and we might even be helped out by a surprise result here and there, but I'm afraid the truth is plain: England were knocked out of the World Cup this afternoon. Source: Yahoo sports!

Algeria player Rafik Saifi slapped a female journalist across the face as the aftermath of the USA’s dramatic World Cup victory turned ugly at Loftus Versfeld Stadium on Wednesday night. While walking through the interview zone, Saifi spotted writer Asma Halimi, who works for Algerian newspaper Competition, and struck her with his open hand in front of dozens of witnesses. Halimi responded by striking the player in the mouth. Saifi then threw a sports drink bottle at a wall in the interview area, as Halimi was ushered away by security staff. Saifi came on as substitute for the last five minutes of the USA’s 1-0 victory. “I said nothing to him and he reached over and hit me,” Halimi said to Yahoo! Sports. “So I hit him back. I said nothing to him first.” It is understood that Saifi and Halimi had previously had a difference of opinion over an article she wrote for her newspaper. “She was standing there and the guy came here and he hit her,” said Francisco Aguilar Chang, a reporter from Guatemala who witnessed the incident. “Then she hit him back and her nail caught his lip.” Saifi and Algerian football association officials refused to comment when quizzed by Yahoo! Sports. The Algerian team has come under heavy criticism in its homeland after a disappointing World Cup in which it finished at the bottom of Group C and was knocked out of the tournament. When asked if she would launch an official complaint with governing body FIFA and the Algerian FA. Halimi replied: “Of course.”

Oodweyne ma racist baa?? :eek: Oromo women look like somali women, I cannot tell them apart most of the time.

Did you hear them singing "Stick the Vavuzles?sp up your A***" Bloody english! They go to other peoples country then cay, and worst of all boast about it on national TV!

I liked Rudd!!!

I watched the Ghana game in a full African house with 10 Germanys. Great stuff! Now ghana can knock the USA out, and Germany will get beats from the old enemy Germany! This football thing attention is going too far, last night I was dreaming about a game (all I remember was that all the players were black, so I assume African ama Brazil or another with lots of black players) anyway they scored and I was cheering so much it woke me up! lool

Yeah Allah, I am so tired!! SalamAlikum. Juxa you get it every year? So by now I am sure you know what works, stock up on it and take them. I am having semi hay fever, never had it before but now on some days I feel funny, dull headache, sneezing, red eyes, small symptoms.

USA finally won a game!!!

^^^Trust you to cry randomness, then marka lagu yidaho sasa mahan, you resort to child like habits. Stop pick and choosing diinta to suit your own desires, say I want this or that or to do this, but deentu won't make a case for it. Never was Polygamy a solution for disable women, nor is the only question of a man should be can he procreate. Qaaq and yahoo.

^^Maybe he meant "your girls" In which case we should investigate if Ngonge or Norf daughter post on SOL, ha laga war toono.

^^That is the sole thing? So so long as he can procreate then it does not matter anything beside that? Cajeeb indeed. :cool: P.s. You should say the question in view should be....yad yad ya, diintu isda mahan, the criteria for looking for suitable spouse is the same, in fact since we are on disability issue, a MAN is more likely to be hindered by it as he cannot perform his sole responsibility (no, not that or kids, I mean provide sufficiently for his family, financial and security)

^^so if a women’s husband is disable, and she is perfectly fine....? but if she is disable and he is fine, then he has a reason to relegate her to a 2nd or 3rd position? Xasisisanida!

England already scored! maybe they can win eh

Kheyr did not say HIS wife was disabled or that HE was stuck with her. Baal read again the sentence people!! lol. He is saying people who end up with one wife or husband could end up envying or being jealousy of other healthy couples by the extention of the reason that they are "stuck" with a sick person instead of a health spouse.

Ghana is here, feel it!! I saw so many cars with the flag waving on my way into work today. African people united in football!

Rhazes, ciidi debategaresan uu sheeg. I don't really see the need to comment on this. As I said this hadith has been for years, I don't see the point of debating it now. I dont think it is a solution to Saudis problem. I take the Quran over all else, the odds seem stacked against this issue.

^^Cocerio bey wax iisu yihiin malah.

Why @ Che? Miya la qarininya? The hadith exist, and has done so for centuries; why it is suddenly being used is the issue. Why now? and how is this linked to the new inventions of sexual expression.

The hadith normally used: Book 008, Number 3425: 'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) reported that Salim, the freed slave of Abu Hadhaifa, lived with him and his family in their house. She (i. e. the daughter of Suhail came to Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and said: Salim has attained (puberty) as men attain, and he understands what they understand, and he enters our house freely, I, however, perceive that something (rankles) in the heart of Abu Hudhaifa, whereupon Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) said to her: Suckle him and you would become unlawful for him, and (the rankling) which Abu Hudhaifa feels in his heart will disappear. She returned and said: So I suckled him, and what (was there) in the heart of Abu Hudhaifa disappeared. The hadith would seem to contradict the Quran which says breastfeeding is only in 2 years of childhood : "Mothers shall suckle their children for two whole years; (that is) for those who wish to complete the suckling. " 2:233 It contradicts hadiths in Mutaa Malik and Muslim : "Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said said that he heard Said ibn al-Musayyab say, "Suckling is only while the child is in the cradle. If not, it does not cause flesh and blood relations." (Book #30, Hadith #30.1.11) The late Sheikh Al-Alabani did defend this hadith in speech. All that aside with the level of faxaisha coming from certain societies, I think the rise of festishs makes the people defending this now or advocating for it now I'm a bit "hmmmm" about their intentions. I think the Shikes are being taking on a ride here.

^^Don't turn into "fighting with Girls about football" thread adiguna. Maybe you need to stop hanging out with these lost girls, yaani ku luminin adigan!

As for A&T I gave up when he told me, adiga uptee baan ku ahey ee ilmadheer maanihin!

They out, Good last game though, now the home crowed won't stone them! Too baad about Cameroon too, good last game, but got the act together too late.

&^Not likely Xiin, they have like 2mins left to play! rajul rashiid iyo A&T maxa iius keeney, jar buu ka sii tuuri

^^Off side the second goal, mii iska siiyan! Uruguay scored, Banafan might be staying after all! this is a fix so host don't go out! (well if they get another 3 goals it is!)

BAFANA BAFANA might score 5 against France and Mexico drew and they go through In lala land of course! EDIT: Maybe not so lala idea, France is down to 10 men!