World Cup

[Angrist]

I can't believe how dirty the Brazillians were playing. They were really trying to injure Robben (who's had many injuries before).
Luckily there was a good ref (arbiter as they call them now?). That seemed to really upset the Brazillians, which was their downfall.

So now Holland is up against Uruguay tomorrow. The tricky thing of the Uruguayans is that they're not playing with 1 but with 11 goal keepers.
That guy who hit Ghana's ball out of the goal plays for Ajax, a Dutch club... But he'll miss the game against Holland.
I think we'll win this one, but I fear the final... Germany or Spain, I don't care much. Germany - Holland has always been more of a classic though.

[Typhoid]

They still call them refs...

A lot of teams have been playing cheaply this World Cup.
I remember watching the US - [I forget] game, and all the players on the opposing team kept making blatant attacks on the US players; like elbows to the nose, stepping on ankles, fists to the face - and the refs weren't calling anything.

But the Brazilians are generally just a really cheap team. Without attempting to over-generalize, it's pretty true that the South American teams and Spain tend to dive a lot, and take a lot of cheap shots at the other teams. That's no fun to watch.