Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: KICK IT! The Faces of the Defeated https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Jo S https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173270#post173270 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173270#post173270 Hmmm ... what is this "outdoors" you speak of?
Could this be the mystical place where televised sport actually occurs in real life?!?

wanders off to stare folornly out the lab window at auckland in the sunshine while pretending to work.

]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:30:05 +1200 Hadyn Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173262#post173262 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173262#post173262 http://www.publicaddress.net/default,6750.sm ]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:45:35 +1200 Jo S https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173261#post173261 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173261#post173261 Although I've loved watching the football, I'm kind of glad that it has finished.
What with watching Le Tour as well (recorded not live – I'd die of sleep deprivation) the few days of overlap meant that my brain nearly seized with oversportedness.

]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:34:33 +1200 Hadyn Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173250#post173250 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173250#post173250

Here's my favourite comic strip, Get Fuzzy, with some suggested improvements to the rules.

I love the refs as MMA fighters suggestion. I sadly came away from the final feeling incredibly cynical (it's bound to be gone in four years time). Germany-Spain or Germany-Uruguay I felt, were the best games…

]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:11:19 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173226#post173226 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173226#post173226 Bah!

Ok that is the extent of my sadness about the Dutch defeat. I didn't like the way they played but I could see that it was probably their only chance to win and it might have worked.

The spanish play very nice football and it's great they've won, beside…

]]> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:31:04 +1200 Richard Llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173184#post173184 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173184#post173184 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:24:44 +1200 3410 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173183#post173183 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173183#post173183

Also pleased to see Diego Forlan winning the golden boot

Golden ball?

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:18:56 +1200 Dan Slevin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173180#post173180 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173180#post173180

Tragic that an African team didn't progress further – that poor guy from Ghana who missed the penalty probably still can't sleep.

Rumour is he might be signing for West Ham which might explain the sleep problems.

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:08:00 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173177#post173177 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173177#post173177

Sepp Blatter – he's like the Don King of football – will Berlusconi be angling for this job next?
How does one get that job?

better get your CV in before John Howard ...
he seems to be going for all the sports jobs now

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:05:45 +1200 Richard Llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173173#post173173 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173173#post173173 some miscellaneous thoughts...

Thanks Dan, Peter et al – enjoyed the banter.

I'm not that bothered about the comparison between different world cups. I've loved this one. And it was the World Cup. Its not a thing that should come in and out of fashion, it just is. Each tournament…

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:52:41 +1200 recordari https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173161#post173161 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173161#post173161 Indeed they did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E2pNq9PaMA

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:18:32 +1200 Lucy Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173142#post173142 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173142#post173142

In the past we might have had to wait for the 35mm movie film (narrated by Sean Connery) to see that much detail.

This has probably been mentioned somewhere on PA and I'm too lazy to look for it, but: last week Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent informed me…

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:23:03 +1200 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173134#post173134 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173134#post173134

except for perhaps the 1994 one

I think it was miles better than 1994. You can't really compare any tournament with the shambles that was USA 94, possibly the worst major tournament of any global sport in history. The atmosphere was terrible, the level of play was terrible – and…

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:59:41 +1200 Stephen Day https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173130#post173130 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173130#post173130 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:33:41 +1200 George Darroch https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173127#post173127 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173127#post173127 UNDEFEATED!

Just wanted to say. Also, the Euro 2012 qualification starts in September.

And here's to a wonderful South African World Cup. I'll leave discussion of the other one to elsewhere...

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:25:16 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173103#post173103 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173103#post173103

I didn't include this due to space, but I also wanted to acknowledge that FIFA really knows to how to organise an event – and that South Africa played their part in a hugely succesful World Cup.

Whereas the IRB has struggled to bring rugby to a wider audience outside…

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:06:11 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173099#post173099 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173099#post173099

Here's my favourite comic strip, Get Fuzzy, with some suggested improvements to the rules.

excellent suggestions...
maybe post-match pillory for blind referees...

...and just to weave in another current thread
relating to Fuzzy's suggestion 4 –
Emily Dickinson in 1861 said:

__I like a look of Agony,
Because I know…

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:45:38 +1200 BlairMacca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173093#post173093 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173093#post173093

in spite of the somewhat sullen nature of the last three games.

Agreed. For me the best round was the quarters, what with the Netherlands and Germany causing upsets, the Ghana and Uruguay's crazy game, even Paraguay almost upsetting Spain. And for all the talk of a dead rubber the…

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:36:43 +1200 Dan Slevin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173090#post173090 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173090#post173090 I didn't include this due to space, but I also wanted to acknowledge that FIFA really knows to how to organise an event – and that South Africa played their part in a hugely succesful World Cup.

Here's the New York Times talking to Chief Executive, Danny Jordaan.

And not…

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:29:17 +1200 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173086#post173086 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173086#post173086 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:18:44 +1200 Dan Slevin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173082#post173082 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173082#post173082

Who he?
oh Ryan Nelsen!
:- )

My mistake, but Hadyn will have to correct it...

Sorry.

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:00:56 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173081#post173081 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173081#post173081 the man in the column is not
the man on the column dept

I’ve never been a big fan of Ryan Nelson

Who he?
oh Ryan Nelsen!
:- )

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:57:49 +1200 Aaron Alexander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173077#post173077 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173077#post173077 Swiss defence was also outstanding. Extremely well drilled, worked as a unit, gave up one goal in three games.

I agree the man-to-man on the ball contest this morning was spectacular. Felt like watching the best in the world.

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:50:43 +1200 Peter Darlington https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173075#post173075 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173075#post173075 Agreed, it was a good chance to spend a few weeks chatting about footie. Thanks to Russell and Hadyn for letting us do it.

So, who's going to do the rugby one next year? :)

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:40:03 +1200 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173074#post173074 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173074#post173074 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:35:21 +1200 Dan Slevin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173072#post173072 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173072#post173072

Peter Jackson may have stayed to help build an NZ industry, but he seems to have forgotten to use the local actors to help make it work.

I don't really want to get into that but I will say that I have many actor friends who had a great deal…

]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:33:53 +1200 Graham Dunster https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173069#post173069 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173069#post173069 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:17:52 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173068#post173068 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-kick-it-the-faces-of-the-defeated/?p=173068#post173068 Discussion from blog post.

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