Like all great news organizations, we here at the blog have a worldwide network of reporters and affiliates dedicated to bringing you the best from the world of soccer. With fantasy and/or the Premier League usually being our major focus, that usually means that we have people stationed in front of televisions and computer screens in the US (birthplace of fantasy sports) and the UK (home of the Prem). With the World Cup the major event of the day, we have spared no expense to bring you live coverage from the venues. This coverage comes in the form of one Jamie Harper, a business school classmate of Neal's, member of the legendary Emory business school intramural-championship winning squad of 1997-98, soccer fanatic, and ex-pat living happily in South Africa.
Given that you can get a run-of-the-mill match report from the Associated Press or Reuters anywhere on the web, I have asked Jamie to give his impressions of the things you won't likely get from those match reports. His impressions of the crowds, the flow of the match, the manager's decisions, and the overall experience. So, with that typically lengthy introduction, here we go with our first installment of our live coverage from South Africa. Take it away Jamie...
