Moinau
I don't think you are being fair to fans of the game. I for one have been a life long fan of Brazil. They got knocked out. Was I supposed to stop watching? Were only fans of the remaining teams the only ones who should be allowed to watch the remaining games?
Germany, who I thought was the best team standing coming into the final four
was playing Spain, so I watched. After 20 minutes it was clear that Spain was a very skilled team and was playing keep away from one of the best teams on the globe. By the end of the match I was rooting for Spain and felt they would win the tourney.
As I was not a fan of Spain going into the tourney was I not allowed to become one or watch their matches?
Every team that wins picks up fan support, that's natural. It translates into dollars. Four years ago when Italy won I had a business interest in them and I can tell y0u I made a very nice piece of change on their victory. I am not Italian, is that not allowed either?
It was a great tournament. I enjoyed it throughly even if "my team" did not win. Sorry some of the sore loser types cannot.
I'll take a fan of the game over a fan of one team anyday. Guess folks are just different. I can live with that.
Hi Ed,
You got my post wrong, or you read me wrong. I know exactly what you mean, and if I may say so, I think you are a great fan of soccer in general. You are right, if your team is knockout of the tournament, you keep on watching if you truly love soccer as a sport. Now nothing wrong to pick a team and trow jokes at each-others about your choice of team, it's only in good fun.
Please read a few post before mine, and you might understand some of my comments, and even these comments have no great malice in them anyway, just making fun of some comments in general.
As for Brasil, even if I'm not a fan of that team, it is certainly one of the greatest team around. I was very surprised to see them lose, I couldn't believe it at first.
You know I was expecting Germany and Brasil in the final, wrong on both count, go figure.
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