Those announcers drove me nuts. Sounded Brit but seemed to not like the Brits. Probably Afrikaners. The USA team really did not look like Americans. The dressed in all white was UK and the navy blue was apparently our shining example of American manhood (what no Asians? Hispanics? but we had the obligatory high profile Black dressed in all red - goalie Howard). Then I recalled Chariots of Fire - all white again. Running on the beach. But the high-pitched whine sounded more like an airport tarmac or Indy 500 than a soccer game. They must have has predator drones high over head looking for trouble makers.
“But the high-pitched whine sounded more like an airport tarmac or Indy 500 than a soccer game. They must have has predator drones high over head looking for trouble makers.”
South african vuvuzelas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuvuzela
It is those damn plastic trumpets that the SA fans blow constantly during their games. They seem to have endless wind. Yesterday the stands had 95% South Africans present and the noise was so bad I could barely understand the commentators. One(Ally something) had an impenetrable, Celtic accent and would have been almost incomprehensible even without the horns. Today there were more US and English fans present so it wasn’t so bad.
What WAS bad was the dirty, hockey-like tactics of the English players. They did their best to injure the US stars — Howard and Dempsey took cheap kicks to the ribs and knees to the face and Donovan had to put up with a chippy defender named Milner.
Getting a tie against the likes of England is nothing to sneeze at. And at the end it was the English players who were watching the clock and ready to bail.