In hindsight, would have probably rather seen this lineup
Having had a good amount of time to reflect on the result from yesterday, and now that I still have at least 5 hours before I board my plane to Johannesburg (though this won’t be posted till I’m settled in Durban) I want to give my English reaction to the match. I will start by saying I believe it was a fair result given the course of the match, but it certainly shouldn’t have been…
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I have no pictures, as I draw enough attention to myself by having red hair, I don’t need to parade around with a camera, especially while I’m traveling alone, but I have officially infiltrated Paris! I have an 8 hour layover here until I hit my flight to Johannesburg, so I bought an hour of internet to update everyone on the travels, as Biggy takes off in around 12 hours, right after I take off again. Some fun things to note so far on the trip:
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Funny, look who's picture shows up when you type "Eurotrash hair"
After getting a surprising amount of feedback from the poll we threw up last week, and determining that a large number of our fans truly believe that the current USMNT is going to win the World Cup (to which, of course, my British ass says you’re all havin a laugh), it was discovered that the majority of you felt I should truly go all out and destroy my hair in preparation for our trip.
As promised, I not only took your votes to heart, I went above and beyond the call of duty. Check out the photo progression after the jump.
We’ve got two polls for you here folks, one for your prediction on who is taking home the cup, and one that could potentially ruin Chamo’s luck with the Brazilian ladies he has been dreaming of meeting in South Africa for the past six months:
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leaving on a jet plane...
The Summer of Soccer kicked off last night as I raced over to Oakland after work to catch a plane to Seattle for this weekend’s Earthquakes – Sounders game with this week’s podcast guest Shawn. I was pretty excited as the Earthquakes have been playing quite well and being able to be to catch a game in Seattle with the Sounders being the home team would allow me to see the Sounders support in action. I got much more then I bargained for and stumbled upon what could be an impending disaster.
Everything started innocuously enough. I caught BART from SF under the bay, and as I sat down I stumbled upon a sign. BART has advertising in the cars, but this was the first I had seen related to the World Cup much less soccer. It was spectacular, regardless of the fact that is it not a US ad. To see any ad at all for the World Cup is stellar. 
After the free wifi in Oakland crashed my computer twice, I was able to get online for about five minutes before my flight, to pull up some information on Pelada for the post that I am working on. Board the plane, get in the air, see them taking drink orders, order a coke in the can and…. pass out. Wake up an hour later, see that the guy next to me has my drink on his tray table, thank him and snag it and sleep again. Wake up to hear the captain say something and fall back asleep. You get the picture. Finally wake up to a gorgeous sunset, the first I have seen from a plane. Spectacular.
As we head in on our approach, I scope the coke, thinking I should knock it back to get some energy. What I discover is that all roads lead to Africa. If the beginning of the trip isn’t the green light for the next one, I don’t know what is.
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