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Re: Soccer sucks.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-...ging-tv-germany-australia-game&cc=5901?ver=us

JOHANNESBURG -- Police say a South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family in the northeastern part of the country.
David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from the small village of Makweya, Limpopo province, fought with his wife and two children for the remote control on Sunday because he wanted to watch Germany play Australia in the World Cup. The others, however, wanted to watch a gospel show.
"He said, 'No, I want to watch soccer,'" police spokesman Mothemane Malefo said Thursday. "That is when the argument came about.
"In that argument, they started assaulting him."
Malefo said Makoeya got up to change the channel by hand after being refused the remote control and was attacked by his 68-year-old wife Francina and two children, 36-year-old son Collin and 23-year-old daughter Lebogang.
Malefo said he was not sure what the family used to kill Makoeya.
"It appears they banged his head against the wall," Malefo said. "They phoned the police only after he was badly injured, but by the time the police arrived the man was already dead."
All three were arrested Sunday night, but Lebogang was released on $200 bail Tuesday, Malefo said. The other two are still being held in custody.
Malefo said the mother and son will reappear in the local Seshego Magistrates Court on July 27.
"He was always a happy man, never violent," Makoeya's nieces, Miriam and Anna, told the Daily Sun newspaper. "On Saturday, we saw him the last time at a funeral."
The World Cup, being played in Africa for the first time, started Friday and runs through July 11. Although most the tickets for the 64-game tournament have been sold, many in South Africa are too poor to attend matches.
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I don't know who that is and I'm not sure if it's a legitimate request. I can try my best!
 
So direct matches are not the first tiebreaker in the group stage?

thats fucking stupid
 
i heard that head - to - head result is not the tiebreaker for the teams in the group
 
http://www.worldcupblog.org/world-cup-2006/world-cup-group-play-tie-breaking-rules.html

Tie-breaker criteria for groups.

a) greatest number of points obtained in all group matches;
b) goal difference in all group matches;
c) greatest number of goals scored in all group matches.
If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings will be determined as follows:
d) greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
e) goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
f) greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned;
g) drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.
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I was under the assumption, that the first tie-breaking criteria to determine group posistion would be head to head result

Like if Serbia and Ghana were tied after 3 games, that Ghana would have the tiebreaker, but i guess thats not the case... all that matters is GD
 
OSUBlazerfan said:
I was under the assumption, that the first tie-breaking criteria to determine group posistion would be head to head result

Like if Serbia and Ghana were tied after 3 games, that Ghana would have the tiebreaker, but i guess thats not the case... all that matters is GD
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head to head does factor into goal differential though. if you beat a team but still have a worse goal differential, you must have just been garbage in your other games(or the other team must have been awesome in theirs).
 
FAIL

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WHat happens if England and the USA are tied in points after the first few games, who moves on?
 
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