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After the initial introductions of the panel, Cupdate was an overview of the games played since the last episode. Originally titled "Cup Update" and accompanied by an impressive graphics display, Sam changed it to "Cupdate" in the last few episodes as he felt the segment was getting stale and needed
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On Sunday nights, the panel revealed jokes which had been previously deemed not funny enough to make it to air. Such jokes were read and literally put in a bin. One controversial joke involved Sam showing footage of a Japanese spectator with an elongated face singing the Japanese national anthem,
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The panel also enjoyed highlighting the "Commentator's Curse", where a commentator would make a positive suggestion about a player's skill, and the player would immediately blunder. A popular commentator's curse incident highlighted was where the commentator stated, "Now, here comes Arjen Robben,
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A number of props were regularly featured in the program. Some of these props included a packet of Argentinian "Tac-Tics" shaped like Tic-Tacs which weren't very good, a Champagne bottle of "French Campaign" which was said to taste flat, a
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The show was well received by viewers and has a thriving Facebook community. Due to the show's popularity, fans are pushing for the show to continue in some form since completion of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The spin-off show
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In many episodes, the show did live crosses to special guests, who were actually members of the panel dressed up. Some of the more popular impersonations were Santo impersonating Argentinian coach and football hero
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making several guest appearances. Segments included Cup Update (a discussion of the previous day's World Cup matches), an interview with a special guest and various comedy sketches.
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Vítor Borba Ferreira and the segment began with footage of Rivaldo having a football hit his leg, in which he reacted by clutching his face and falling to the ground.
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pretending to be New Zealand sports commentators hosting "Kiwi TV", in which they would fit in as many popular New Zealand references as possible.
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recalling the day's events, up until Australia were knocked out of the tournament. However, his thoughts often centred on meals and walks to the
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The panel played clips of players taking obvious fake dives from the games played overnight. The segment was named in honour of Brazilian player
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Each show featured a special guest, often in the form of former footballers, current footballers, entertainers and on one occasion, ALP senator
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Award' which poked fun at World Cup proceedings and football in general. The show also had segments filmed at the World Cup by correspondent
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during an interview on the show. Other regular segments included 'Take on my Nuts', 'Not Even Close' and 'The
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The panel highlighted examples of players attempting to block the ball who made no effort to protect their
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The panel wore thick-lensed glasses and reviewed shots at goal which did not make it close to the net.
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look at the speed at which he goes at," before subsequently toe poking it to the opposition.
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with Sam's tag being "I know the Japanese Anthem isn't very good, but why the long face?".
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Many segments were featured regularly, often based on the previous day's play, including:
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can labelled "Red Card" and a joke book supposedly released by solemn Japanese coach
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regularly fell off his face), Ed impersonating the fashion-conscious German coach
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featured in his own diary segment. He also announced that he had signed for
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sprucing up. The result was an even more impressive graphics display.
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The most popular impersonation was Sam doing North Korean leader
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