2010 is the year of

football experts. or soccer if your americanism pleases.

every 4 years, the spirit of football analysis roam the earth and bless every one from ages 10+ with "brains of football". suddenly the jargons like goalkicks, offside and handballs become punctuations in our everyday conversations.

"siao eh! drive proply leh! u offside liao leh!"

"what? goalkick? corner leh! I should gokick the linesman nuts and handball his face!!!!"

and speaking of which, the facebook is suddenly filled with experts churning out wc related statuses faster than jabulanis can fly off the crossbars. even the vuvuzelas can't buzz off as quickly and as annoying.

"SOCCER EXPERT thinks that england should have won that match. I can referee better."

OR

"ANOTHER EXPERT thinks the game between country 1 and country 2 was so boring its painful. almost like a 24hr pricey convenience store against an asian bank."

don't worry I don't get it either. facebook need to yellow card these.

woeful refereeing

its only half way through the round of 16 in the world cup and quite a number of bad refereeing can be seen.

last night alone saw 2 of the worst ever in this tournament. and fifa still not willing to introduce tech to help the err which is human, so to speak. I can understand that still having that human touch is important but the refereeing body need some serious shake up.

but hey, got argentina through the quarter finals. poor england tho.

argentina go!!!!

argentina 4 and 1 for south korea, the other grp B favourite. what a great match. only flaw would be that messi and tevez didn't score any of them.

and also that I don't have an argentina jersey to cheer them on.

go argentina!!!!

phuket here we come, again!

been 3.5 years and boy do we miss that place. just hope the magic haven't quite died off.

w00t!