Silly Sunday #29 World Cup 2010-Twitter Reports of England’s Loss.

The World Cup Soccer 2010 started 2 weeks ago. For now I only follow the Dutch team live. But indirectly I follow many other matches via Twitter. It is very entertaining, especially if things go awry, like the way the English were crushed by the Germans today (1:4). This was partly due to the referee who ruled out a legitimate goal by Frank Lampard when it was still 1 : 1.

Below are some of the tweets in my timeline. I especially like @precordialthump’s comparison of the English knock-out with apoptosis.

@Precordialthump opens with the best Faulty Tower fragment: “Don’t mention the War”. I can’t resist to show the fragment here.

And don’t miss the pic: “It wasn’t a goal” (via nutrigenomics)

1. 
   mariawolters PHEW! #ger AND #gha are through! Go Ghana, go Africa! Now on to #ger / #eng. Mwahahaha …. #fb 23 Jun 2010 from Twitter for iPhone
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   precordialthump Don’t mention the war… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0&feature=fvw Come on England! 27 Jun 2010 from Echofon
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   precordialthump Oh my god!!!! Come on England – 1966 in reverse!!! 27 Jun 2010 from Echofon
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   MaverickNY @SallyWalker exactly kind of gobsmacked. If they ditch all the bad refs there won’t be any left for the final tho 27 Jun 2010 from Echofon in reply to SallyWalker
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   mariawolters at least #eng will be spared the excruciating penalty shootout this time #brightside #schlaaaaand #fb 27 Jun 2010 from mobile web
6. 
   Herring1967 I blame our 12th invisible player. Everyone keeps passing to him and then he fucks it up. 27 Jun 2010 from web
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   TW_Adorno Your team qualified with ease under a Labour Govt and have struggled in every game under the Conservatives. How could this be? 27 Jun 2010 from twidroid
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   thestephmerritt Is this happening because they’ve cut the defence budget? #ididafootballjoke 27 Jun 2010 from web
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   precordialthump The England team’s performance turned out to be the World Cup football equivalent of apoptosis… well done, Germany. 27 Jun 2010 from Echofon
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    MaverickNY @whydotpharma not sure which was worse: refereeing, #eng or american tv commentary. Probably the last one was most clueless. 27 Jun 2010 from Echofon in reply to whydotpharma
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    jdc325 Watched the England game with my Dad. My summary: what a shit waste of time. I could have gone for a walk or read a book. 27 Jun 2010 from web
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    nutrigenomics Ha RT @biomatushiq: [pretty fast] ROFL RT @sotak: It wasn’t a goal! [pic] http://bit.ly/aHon2g #worldcup #eng #ger 27 Jun 2010 from Snaptu
13. 
    TheMarydoll Just been announced that the england team are flying back to glasgow airport so they can get a hero’s welcome. 27 Jun 2010 from Snaptu
14. 
    laikas RT @BrettAwesome: Breaking News: England have a new coach. It takes them to the airport in 15 minutes. 27 Jun 2010 from TweetDeck
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    mariawolters RT @bradykelly: RT @riaanbth: RT @bonnycross: RT @itshellsbells: The new England badge http://twitpic.com/20hgo2 (via @Tertia) 27 Jun 2010 from Twitter for iPhone

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