Off to a flyer..
- 14 Jun 06, 12:59 PM
Today's show worked. The blend was right, the fans were brilliant and i think we got close to capturing the mood of the World Cup.
We had two South Korea fans (Jun and Brent) talking to two Togolese fans in Lome (Eric and Guy) and they replayed yesterday's game with the help of Mikhail (a Poland fan) and Mirka (a German fan). Oh, and did i mention Ghassad, who joined us from Saudi Arabia to tell us he has only a slight hope that his team will perform better than in 2002?
The line-up was completed by Eric and Andreas, from France and Switzerland respectively.
The agenda: Ronaldo's weight, why there hasn't been a penalty yet,( thankyou Rob Stradling for pointing this out to us) and whether an ageing team (like France, the Czech Republic or the USA ) can win the tournament.
Jun and Brent started the singing, followed by Mikhail and one or two of his friends (who may just have taken a drink on board) singing up for Poland and Eric and Guy, not to be outdone, sung us the Togo song.
As for Africa's performance in the tournament (4 defeats so far), we had this e-mail in from Peter in Nigeria...
"I'm predicting victory for the Tunisian team today. Yes..., Tunisia just has to win today, and secure Africa's first victory in Germany"
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To See Spain get 4 goals was excellent.
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I was unable to see the or hear the Tunisia VS Saudi Arabia Game. It seemed that most stations did not want to broadcast the game. The only exception was Univision which broadcasted the game. People saw the game in spite of the humidity. Interest peaked when there was a 1-1 equalizer followed by 2 to 1 in favor of Saudi Arabia. Interest declined after the second equalizer 2-2.
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Poland attempted to put some resistance but unfortunately they lost to Germany. Now in Group A, Germany has 6 and Poland will not be able to go to the next rounds. It seemed that most of Miami were looking at their TV Sets. Let's see what happens with Ecuador VS Costa Rica, England VS Trinidad & Tobago, Sweden VS Paraguay.
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