When Saturday Comes
by Herr Ed
WCH is pleased to have received a positive review from the highly respected football magazine When Saturday Comes (WSC).
Rated 8/10, World Cup Hippo is ‘top of the blogs’!
The magazine is in the shops now, and you can read the review online if you click here.
June 7th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Well done World Cup Hippo!
It has always been my first and only stop for World Cup comment, analysis and intelligent discussion.
June 7th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Many Congratulations Hippos!
Recongition at last for the most inciteful world cup site on the internet. World Cup Hare must be crying into his carrot soup.
June 7th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
excellent - well done.
You’ll be interested to know that Rob Smyth over at the Grauniad also takes Herr Eds position on the Hargreaves question and agrees with me about Jenas
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/worldcup06/2006/06/07/hargreaves_is_a_victim_of_litt.html
June 7th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
I only stumbled upon this site on Sunday, but became a fan immediately. I have not found any good US sites for Cup info. It is a little dis-heartening.
June 7th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Hi Scott, I can see the USA doing really well in Germany. When I have watched MLS matches in the past the teams seemed to get scared when they reached the last third of the field and were a bit inflexible. The national team used to share this problem but in 2002 they showed Portugal up to be a team of nearly men and were very unlucky to lose to the Germans when they looked lively.
Donovan and Johnson could be exciting to watch, especially if Arena gives the team an attacking shape.
(I’ve put a few pence on Dempsey to be top scorer for the US at long odds!)
June 7th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Nice one Herr Hippo!
June 7th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
This is definitely the strongest US team that has ever been to a cup. I think their odds on getting out of group play are about 50/50.
If Johnson can score one, he will light it up from there. He is snake-bit at the moment and all of his shots just miss. If he can find the back of the net, he will find it again.
Donovan dissappears for way too long. If he could consistently be part of a match, he will be a force.
Dempsey could either be the best thing to ever hit the feild, or the weakest link on the team. I am just not sure which one he is.
The man to watch for the US is Onyewu. Looks as if he is ‘Boro bound anyway. You guys might get to see a bunch of him after the cup.
June 7th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Congrats to Herr Hippo. I love this site and also the fact that it avoids being blocked at work by the sports filters for some reason.
June 7th, 2006 at 9:51 pm
Congratulations on the award! Terrific blog too - it’s difficult to find decent writing about football anywhere on the web.
I will take the time to link you, but fking Blogger is down at the moment. Feel free to drop by (unless you’re Scottish, in which case you may wish to wait a day or two until my ill-informed rant against the Scots and their attitude towards the English has fallen into the archive).
I’ve also been posting on the Guardian blog - I’m disappointed to see that even a quality paper seems to have it’s fair share of morons posting on it.
June 8th, 2006 at 8:46 am
I’ll be back on ITV in no time!!!
June 8th, 2006 at 8:56 am
This is currently a moron-free zone which i agree is a bonus. Nice to have people from all around the globe participating.
I’m sure all the national coaches and players refer to WCH when they need intelligent analysis.
June 8th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
I’m looking forward to reading match reports on this site. They will no doubt be more interesting than those on the official pages or the national news sites!