It's not a world cup until you have experienced gut wrenching disappointment. Welcome to football America!
-From an England fan

Heartbreaking. It's like the Algeria game all over again

If Gerrard tweets support, you're doomed

Considering how much a season ticket costs these days, football is emphatically not for poor people

Screw the theology. You are aware how precedent works right? I don't give a single damn about what various doctrines of faith say. I care about the fact that there is now a clear legal get out clause for these companies to follow as long as they can show 'sincere belief' that birth control is the same as abortion.

I…

"The Greens, a Christian family that owns Hobby Lobby, and the Hahns, a Mennonite family that owns Conestoga Wood Specialties, believe that certain kinds of birth control are akin to abortion."

Seeing as they'd be following the Hobby Lobby precedent, they would have to show they showed the same sincerely held belief.…

Love is all good and well, till you can't afford the heating or food and both your kids get taken by social services...

Well if the goddamn Catholics would just keep their Catholicism to themselves, there would be no need for snark. BUT LOOKY WHERE WE ARE, SNARK SNARK SNAAARK

Fair play, that is one very smug nun

So the options are either play on manfully and get nothing, or throw it down and get the penalty? You're team mates would be fucking furious (as well as the manager) if you didn't throw yourself down....

It does suck that it ended like that. But the Mexican skipper did push the self-destruct button so what can you do?

Just got to be in the box. You don't have to be anywhere near scoring, the foul is enough

He was fouled, he dived. He did what every single striker would do when the defender stupidly leaves his foot in. Blame the defender for making an unnecessary and sloppy tackle when Robben had already been closed down and was facing in the wrong direction. The fact that Robben milked it has nothing to do with whether…

It was a foul, simply because you just don't leave your foot in when in the penalty box. But yes Robben did play act the most out of it to make sure the ref saw it. Considering he had been pole-axed in the Mexican box earlier and that a skipper should really know better then to make an unneeded tackle like that, it…

Every-one knows that you don't leave your foot in on a tackle in the penalty box. It was moronic considering Robben had nowhere to go, so I have little sympathy for the Mexican skipper.

If you think the rules are stupid, might I suggest you watch another goddamn game. I mean Christ every World Cup, the band-wagoners…

This. Considering that the Dutch had been dominant for the last twenty minutes, if it had gone to extra-time the Mexicans would most likely have folded.

Do we have to do the Teeth joke every single time there's a story about the UK? Our teeth are fine...

I believe the massive shortage is caused by the fact that in the UK when any offspring turns 18 they are entitled to find out the donor's identity. The lack of anonymity means very few are willing to sign up...

EDIT - I should really have more than skim read the story. But yeah, this is a serious problem and a massive…

They might not even make it past Colombia/Uruguay if they don't pick up

Nah. Penalties add to the drama. Watch the Liverpool/Ac Milan Champions League final (The miracle at Istanbull). That penalty shoot out with Dudek where it went 5-6, just un-fucking-believable