The preliminary/group stages of any major sporting tournament are easily the best. Wall to wall sport, everyone’s fans involved, the potential for minnows to shock.
Nth America timezone helps. Getting up at 6am and watching back-to-back WC games is *chef’s kiss*
This crowbarring of more ads under the guise of a ‘hydration break’ are 💩.
An incredible two minutes of a goal/almost goal with an invested crowd, and they immediately pause for three minutes and release all the momentum and tension.
#worldcup
AFL HQ must be loving that now two of its own players have gone on podcasts this week to say they wish their games were rescheduled so they could watch the World Cup
The absolute hypocrisy of this code with a history of deliberately scheduling games up against Socceroos and Matildas games, announcing fixture releases to take attention away from football, now wants to be friends.
American sport does a lot well, but the way they conduct championship/trophy presentations sucks.
Reporters from TV networks shouldn’t be on stage for trophy presentations/photos (and let’s not talk about billionaires receiving the trophy).
Have always loved previous incarnations of Cup Fever, but geez that was an underwhelming start. Different vibe with no Pang, and Ed hosting instead of Santo. The writing/jokes needs some work.
Hopefully it improves.
Wow.
On the podium for the greatest choke in sports history by the Spurs?
Bad coaching, terrible execution and decision making, obsession with threes while in the lead, Wemby’s mindset seemed to be affected by the flagrant foul.