The Dry World Cup


Carnival Dahiya

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At Marzouq Al-Ghanim election headquaters for his Q&A session. It is a mad house of cars people & traffic.

The chicken & beef shawarma were good not hot needed more flavour.


Carnival Dahiya

Originally uploaded by nibaq.

At Marzouq Al-Ghanim election headquaters for his Q&A session. It is a mad house of cars people & traffic.

The chicken & beef shawarma were good not hot needed more flavour.

I have been watching the World Cup and well haven’t been disappointed, rx but its not that entertaining especially in the 2nd half. So when reading this article on the BBC England make water plea to Fifa, and then seeing the game just now Portugal and Angola and seeing the sweat on the players’ shirts it made sense.

The guys are just tried by 20-30 minutes into the first half, and by the second they are still recuperating from the half time.

It looks like they discussed this back in World Cup 2002, and were thinking of a 90 second break between the halves already creating 4 period games for water breaks.

I am really not sure about the breaks, it could really change the feeling of the game, but players need to drink and keep hydrated. In the 2002 Fifa decided not to do any changes since they were in the middle of a tournament and most likely will do the same thing for this one.

4 thoughts on “The Dry World Cup”

  1. I can’t imagine a football match with breaks to drink water! Now imagine having the World Cup here in the Gulf.

  2. I know! I was so hapy that refs let the flow of the game move so smoothly in some matches.

    The only solution is that during corner kicks the ref extends time for a quick water break since most of the players are in one area.

  3. I have a lot of resepect for the refs!! they are letting the games flow, and they are not falling for any acting falls or things like that.. but they do miss a few calls.. like when Argentina scored but it wasnt counted.

    The games have been intense and fantastic to watch!

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