Thursday, June 17, 2010

World Cup fever, Part 3

Well i finally found out that Astro DOES telecast live world cup matches on their channel 810 (for Malaysia) without astro viewers having to subscribe to extra channels. I couldn't find this month's Astro magazine (I can never find it, someone has always recycled it prematurely or something) and it was by word of mouth that i came to know about Astro's world cup live channels. Anyway, last night i watched the Korea Republic v Argentina live match (final score: Korea Rep 1, Argentina 4). In the dying minutes of the 1st half of that match Korea Rep suddenly caught the Argentine defenders unawares and lobbed in a quick goal. But the Argentines came back in full force in second half to lob in 2 more goals to make it a total of 4 goals to show that theirs was no fluke.

Then i woke up early this morning and watched the highlights of mexico v france (final score: mexico 2, france 0). If it's any consolation to fans of France, the 1st goal looked suspiciously like an off-side let off by the referee while the 2nd goal was a penalty shot awarded over a bad luck tackle by France's Eric Abidal. Luck was on Mexico's side and a goal's a goal, so...

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