I did expect that though, I do think that South Korea are a bit like the US in some respects, in that their hopes were raised in the last world cup to a level not really matching their skill....go Togo though
World Cup Thread
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Australia beat England 3-1 in a friendly a year or two ago.
Blackleaf said:
Australia beat England 3-1 in a friendly a year or two ago.
Well, we had the most boring match of the World Cup so far as Switzerland and France played to a 0-0 draw.
I picked France as the winners. That doesn't look particularly smart right now.
I picked France as the winners. That doesn't look particularly smart right now.
No kidding Blackleaf.
That's four WC matches in which France has failed to hit the back of the net. The last time was in the 1998 final.
That's four WC matches in which France has failed to hit the back of the net. The last time was in the 1998 final.
this is gonna be an interesting tournament. well..i'm cheering for a couple of teams namely: Brazil, France, Switzerland, Argentina..hopefully one of these guys will win...especially brasilia.!!
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hey don't worry as far as an 0-0 is concerned that just shows both teams have excellent goalies but they need to score some goals.,.they'll come through
Toro said:
hey don't worry as far as an 0-0 is concerned that just shows both teams have excellent goalies but they need to score some goals.,.they'll come through
Croatia really played defensively and well at that. You'd never imagine how many Croatia fans there were screaming around in the streets today and yesterday... they actually outnumbered Brazil fans by a sizable portion.
Right now there's Brazil fans screaming their cars up and down the streets of Berlin! God, it will be refreshing when this tournament is over.
Right now there's Brazil fans screaming their cars up and down the streets of Berlin! God, it will be refreshing when this tournament is over.
Brazillians are fun to party with Andem!
It was a fun game to watch, as it always is with Brazil. However, if they had played Argentina or Italy, they probably would have lost because the likes of Crespo and Totti will take the chances the Croatians did not.
It was a fun game to watch, as it always is with Brazil. However, if they had played Argentina or Italy, they probably would have lost because the likes of Crespo and Totti will take the chances the Croatians did not.
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Ohh I know haha, I didnt think we'd win any of our games! But Japan is GOOD actually so we're all ecstatic! Japan is ranked 18, Croatia, 19 and Australia 42. So I think we're doing well
We're still in with a chance to go to the next round!
Croatia vs Brazil was a VERY evenly-matched game though...they did well to keep it at 1-0.
Daz_Hockey said:
Ohh I know haha, I didnt think we'd win any of our games! But Japan is GOOD actually so we're all ecstatic! Japan is ranked 18, Croatia, 19 and Australia 42. So I think we're doing well
We're still in with a chance to go to the next round!Croatia vs Brazil was a VERY evenly-matched game though...they did well to keep it at 1-0.
It's gonna be a disappointing year or two in sport for Australia.
First, your team will be knocked out of the 2006 Football World Cup - which will be won by England.
In winter, you'll see Australia's cricketers lose again against England in the Ashes for the 2nd time in one and a half years.
Then, you will be knocked out of the 2007 Rugby World Cup - which will be won by England for the 2nd time in a row and hopefully against Australia just as in the 2003 World Cup Final.
Also, in the same year, your cricketers will be knocked out of the 2007 Cricket World Cup - which will be won by England.
If I were you, just don't bother watching sport in your country for the next year and a half, because by the end of 2007, England will be the football World Champions, the rugby World Champions for the second successive time and the cricket World Champions and also the holders of the Ashes urn in cricket.
First, your team will be knocked out of the 2006 Football World Cup - which will be won by England.
In winter, you'll see Australia's cricketers lose again against England in the Ashes for the 2nd time in one and a half years.
Then, you will be knocked out of the 2007 Rugby World Cup - which will be won by England for the 2nd time in a row and hopefully against Australia just as in the 2003 World Cup Final.
Also, in the same year, your cricketers will be knocked out of the 2007 Cricket World Cup - which will be won by England.
If I were you, just don't bother watching sport in your country for the next year and a half, because by the end of 2007, England will be the football World Champions, the rugby World Champions for the second successive time and the cricket World Champions and also the holders of the Ashes urn in cricket.
10 things that we've already learned in Germany.
See No 4
1) British television's coverage of football is the world's best. Compare Sky's multi-angle, multi-camera voyeurism with the dull long-range perspective of German TV, which is stuck in the 1980s. We're spoilt, especially in the Premiership, and now we're going to believe it. [[Not to mention the coverage on BBC digital TV where British fans can even choose what camera in the stadium they can watch the football from]].
2) Our celebrity obsessions get worse - the paparazzi taking pictures of the luggage that came off the coach as the England players' families arrived at their Baden-Baden hotel. Never mind wives, girlfriends and parents. Even the bags are famous now.
3) Sven Goran Eriksson will be savaged for allowing so much contact between the players and their clans if England go home early, and praised as an enlightened pro-family thinker if they win the Cup.
4) Italian goal celebrations and reactions to fouls are still the stuff of opera. Nothing beats an Azzurri striker peeling away from the goal, eyes wide, mouth like an O, arms spread. Every goal for Italy is an epiphany, every kick on the shin a murderous assault. They rock, they roll.
5) The USA are a team of zonal scufflers without a trick between them. Their high FA ranking must be a misprint.
6) Arsene Wenger has done it again. The Czech Republic's Tomas Rosicky is one of the early stars of the tournament. After his brace against the Americans, Arsenal fans are in raptures.
7) The new World Cup ball pings off the foot and ought to help Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard increase England's meagre tally of one own-goal.
8 ) The English have two personalities. One for when they're drunk and another for apologising for their excesses the following day. World champion sports tourists, they are also the Rocky Marcianos of drinking.
9) The biggest tiffs so far have been between Freddie Ljungberg and Olaf Mellberg in the Sweden camp and Robin Van Persie and Arjen Robben of Holland. All four play in the English Premiership. Coincidence?
10) It's too soon for Wayne Rooney to play, even if he is like a bulldog yanking his owner's arm from its socket as he catches sight of the park.
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See No 4
1) British television's coverage of football is the world's best. Compare Sky's multi-angle, multi-camera voyeurism with the dull long-range perspective of German TV, which is stuck in the 1980s. We're spoilt, especially in the Premiership, and now we're going to believe it. [[Not to mention the coverage on BBC digital TV where British fans can even choose what camera in the stadium they can watch the football from]].
2) Our celebrity obsessions get worse - the paparazzi taking pictures of the luggage that came off the coach as the England players' families arrived at their Baden-Baden hotel. Never mind wives, girlfriends and parents. Even the bags are famous now.
3) Sven Goran Eriksson will be savaged for allowing so much contact between the players and their clans if England go home early, and praised as an enlightened pro-family thinker if they win the Cup.
4) Italian goal celebrations and reactions to fouls are still the stuff of opera. Nothing beats an Azzurri striker peeling away from the goal, eyes wide, mouth like an O, arms spread. Every goal for Italy is an epiphany, every kick on the shin a murderous assault. They rock, they roll.
5) The USA are a team of zonal scufflers without a trick between them. Their high FA ranking must be a misprint.
6) Arsene Wenger has done it again. The Czech Republic's Tomas Rosicky is one of the early stars of the tournament. After his brace against the Americans, Arsenal fans are in raptures.
7) The new World Cup ball pings off the foot and ought to help Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard increase England's meagre tally of one own-goal.
8 ) The English have two personalities. One for when they're drunk and another for apologising for their excesses the following day. World champion sports tourists, they are also the Rocky Marcianos of drinking.
9) The biggest tiffs so far have been between Freddie Ljungberg and Olaf Mellberg in the Sweden camp and Robin Van Persie and Arjen Robben of Holland. All four play in the English Premiership. Coincidence?
10) It's too soon for Wayne Rooney to play, even if he is like a bulldog yanking his owner's arm from its socket as he catches sight of the park.
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Daily Mail
Paul Hayward
I trust you observed Diego Maradona's angst [[he was as the stadium watching the game]] as the officials in the Argentina-Ivory Coast game failed to award his team a goal when the ball appeared to have crossed the line.
Diego jumped to his feet. Diego clutched his head. Diego raged at all the injustices of the world and fought back his tears. How COULD they do this? Is there no beauty or fairness on God's blessed Earth?
Not since 1986, old mate.
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Paul Hayward
I trust you observed Diego Maradona's angst [[he was as the stadium watching the game]] as the officials in the Argentina-Ivory Coast game failed to award his team a goal when the ball appeared to have crossed the line.
Diego jumped to his feet. Diego clutched his head. Diego raged at all the injustices of the world and fought back his tears. How COULD they do this? Is there no beauty or fairness on God's blessed Earth?
Not since 1986, old mate.
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Ukraine Spain 0:4
Even if Ukraine played with 11 men, they would have chance to win. Their tactics was poor compared to Trinidad and Tobago which also played 10 men against Sweden.
Even if Ukraine played with 11 men, they would have chance to win. Their tactics was poor compared to Trinidad and Tobago which also played 10 men against Sweden.
Trinidad and Tobago were given no respect whatsoever by sweden, thats why they got a draw, due to the rrogence of the swedes, but English teams have played many times against most of the T & T squad, we know a lot of their players are very skillfull indeed, we'll give them the respect they deserve