More football polluting the TV screens. I never saw this many English flags flying on St George's day. England needs to learn how to be truly patriotic if they're going to try at all, instead of waiting 4 years for some stupid football matches.
I'm indifferent to football itself, but I have a huuuuuge gambling addiction. I sure hope Argentina takes down Nigeria tomorrow and Spain takes down... uhh... whoever they're playing. I have, like, $500 on this. >:
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The World Cup is awesome - bring it on! Never am i more interested in footy (unless it's a Hereford/Shrewsbury-scumbag derby) than during the World Cup! Surely it's the most watched event in the world, isn't it?
France let me down a bit. I'm blaming Gourcuff, who was shockingly bad - wasted chances, and seemed to get dispossessed every time he touched the ball.
Still, the first game went as planned
I'm really hoping South Korea will beat Greece today (very possible), and ideally Nigeria would beat Argentina (far less likely).
England will probably draw (2-2?) with USA, or perhaps even lose. I only say that, because I think an England-Germany match is inevitable, and for that to happen USA really need to finish top of the group.
Originally Posted by -Adam- More football polluting the TV screens. I never saw this many English flags flying on St George's day. England needs to learn how to be truly patriotic if they're going to try at all, instead of waiting 4 years for some stupid football matches.
stop complaining / being so negative and bringing every one down- what an attitude. if you dont like it no need to rub it into everyone's face how its "polluting". people enjoy soccer - it makes them happy - lets all have fun and a good time, okay?
anyways so far the world cup is awesome- germany won. yay
say is it common in your country if your team won every one will jump straight into their car - get out the flags - drive around and honk all night.
here is a picture ive found on wikipedia about this (on the GERMAN wikipedia- if i switch the language it will just give me the english wiki page for "parade" not exactly what the german page is about so it might not even be such a thing abroad but what do i know)
I'm excited about the world cup and enjoy watching football in general. I just don't talk about it much on the internet because not many people seem to like it online...
Germany were brilliant today, but Australia were pretty poor.
Originally Posted by MasterM Originally Posted by -Adam- More football polluting the TV screens. I never saw this many English flags flying on St George's day. England needs to learn how to be truly patriotic if they're going to try at all, instead of waiting 4 years for some stupid football matches.
stop complaining / being so negative and bringing every one down- what an attitude. if you dont like it no need to rub it into everyone's face how its "polluting". people enjoy soccer - it makes them happy - lets all have fun and a good time, okay?
anyways so far the world cup is awesome- germany won. yay
say is it common in your country if your team won every one will jump straight into their car - get out the flags - drive around and honk all night.
here is a picture ive found on wikipedia about this (on the GERMAN wikipedia- if i switch the language it will just give me the english wiki page for "parade" not exactly what the german page is about so it might not even be such a thing abroad but what do i know)
Good to see you got a life instead of targeting me... oh wait Oh hey, I found that video you made of Duncan Fenn the other day
Yeah, I wouldn't read too much into it - they were facing very weak opposition (a lot worse than they were in '06), who even had a player sent off for no apparent reason (they would have lost anyway, but the margin of victory flattered Germany in the end).
I seem to remember the Aussies got screwed by a bad refereeing decision last World Cup as well, in their game against Italy.
Having said that, Germany are the only team who have looked even slightly convincing so far - England, France and Argentina were all very poor.
There's still Italy, Brazil, Spain, Portugal and Holland to come though... (and I'm still rooting for South Korea).
I would love to see argentina go far in the tournament and shut up all those who say maradona knows more about sniffing coke than football. The man does deserve some respect, and for someone who is in his first real coaching job, he's not doing bad at all.
Brazil will probably win, but if they don't I'd say germany might shock some people. I was surprised to see how they completely destroyed australia today. Spain still has a great team, but overall their form isn't quite as good as it was 2 years ago and some key players such as Torres and fabregas seem to struggling with injuries but nonetheless they are among the biggest contenders.
As for england, they seem to rely way too much on rooney's good form, even without playing well the us managed to grab a draw (yeah well green helped a lot but still) and made sure he was nowhere to be seen.
Holland has great players up front, but their backline is a bit dodgy at times and most players seem to be too inconsistent (in the last euro they destroyed italy and france, and then got eliminated by russia).
France is coached by a complete moron and the team lacks the spark it had with Zidane, Makelele, Thuram and so on. Portugal's coach is equally dumb, and can't get Ronaldo and Deco to perform to their fullest, and now they forced to play without Nani who has been in fantastic form this season
Italy's players are either old and/or under performing, it's hard to expect anything out of ordinary from them.
As for the underdogs, there's always the african teams such as Ivory coast who are in the group of death, but if they can pull it off then they might surpise a lot of people; the others don't really have a great team but neither had Greece and they beat portugal in the euro 2004 final.
Oh and let's make some predictions !
Holland 1-0 Denmark
Spain 2-0 Switzerland
Italy 0-0 Paraguay
Portugal 1-0 Ivory Coast
Brazil 4-0 North Corea
There's nothing wrong with some football-bashing, us football haters are having a hard time. My neighbours are having football-parties (fat guys and loud kids watching tv in the garden and screaming out all the time), there's orange flags and other bull everywhere, my colleagues and students are sent home to watch the match and everybody everywhere keeps asking me "DID YOU WATCH IT?!?!" It's a nightmare. I have no problem with people enjoying the heck out of this, but why does it have to be so big and loud?
I dont think warnings should be given out for swearing, considering about 10 people have been swearing all over the place recently. God knows how you've figured it's fair to single people out or not do your job efficiently.
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Oh hey, I found that video you made of Duncan Fenn the other day 
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