are you happy with ESPNs coverage?

[Foye]

It's extremely bias. I want to know about other countries. You'd think the World Cup was the U.S. and some other losers. I'm glad Ghana beat them today.

Isn't it like that in almost any country?

Fortunately, we in Germany can watch almost every game but still everyone here is kind of expecting us to come far. In reality we have a very inexperienced team that should struggle against an experienced, well-organised team like England (at least on defense they are except for their keepers ).

We have some experienced players like Mertesacker, Friedrich, Schweinsteiger, Lahm, Klose and Podolski on our team but of those players I consider Schweinsteiger and Lahm the only one who could be able to lead our team in a difficult game. Klose, Podolski, Mertesacker and Friedrich are average players.
England on the other hand does have a lot more proven class veteran players in Rooney, Terry, Ferdinand, Gerrard, Lampard, Terry, Joe/Ashley Cole etc. They should be able to beat us if they can finally play together as a team for a whole game and YET almost everybody here expects us to win this game with ease.

Rooney will school Mertesacker/Friedrich today at least twice.

[UGA Hayes]

It's extremely bias. I want to know about other countries. You'd think the World Cup was the U.S. and some other losers. I'm glad Ghana beat them today.

I don't have a problem with the coverage being biased so much that, as it usually is with ESPN, they don't do as good of a job balancing the homerism with hardcore analysis. Its actually in ESPN interest to be doing a fullout hardcore advertising blitzreig about some of these international players, yet they are taking too much of a short tem viewing and overly focusing on our guys. Overall I thinks its been good and I too like the international flavor of the studio analysts and play by play guy, but there are definitely area that they could improve.

Its funny but I think the coverage would better if they were treating the tourny like the NBA, whose coverage can be oversaturated with LeBron Wade, Kobe etc.. You know "OMG OMGG OMG MESSI, MESSI, Kaka etcI". Instead its like theyare giving equLal time to say Jason Richardson. Solid player but thats all.

[AdamTheGreek]

We'll see how the coverage holds with no more U.S.A.