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The Official World Cup 2006 Thread

well deserved victory but for the love of god.. score the goal earlier next time
germany winning 1-0 with a goal in overtime is just too much cliche
 
takao said:
well deserved victory but for the love of god.. score the goal earlier next time
germany winning 1-0 with a goal in overtime is just too much cliche
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The whole match seemed to weigh in with the sense that a Germany score was imminent. I was hoping that Poland could hang on for 1 point. That would have been well deserved, too. Shame they couldn't do it with ten.
 
By the way....

Spain should never have had the penalty, and make the Ukraine play with 10 men...

I though that diving was supposed to be penalized with a yellow... :mad:
Can't they penalize a player after the match?

Please, when will this ever stop!
 
OK. Let's hear predictions for the final score of tomorrow's England game vs. Trinidad & Tobago. I'll hold off giving mine 'cos it's extremely unlikely that I'll be seeing the game. Closest guess gets bragging rights for about 30 seconds or so...
 
Blue Velvet said:
OK. Let's hear predictions for the final score of tomorrow's England game vs. Trinidad & Tobago. I'll hold off giving mine 'cos it's extremely unlikely that I'll be seeing the game. Closest guess gets bragging rights for about 30 seconds or so...
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2-0 England. (Random shot in the dark :))
 
Trinidad & Tobago to get the first goal, leading to scenes of panic from the England team who somehow manage to get out of jail with an unconvincing 3-1 win.

The result will mean half the nation will then be even more convinced that we'll win the World Cup with ease, while the other half will criticise Sven for his lack of passion/tacical inadequancies/bringing on Owen Hargreaves in the second half.*

* Delete as applicable.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
Trinidad & Tobago to get the first goal, leading to panic from the England team who somehow manage to get out of jail with an unconvincing 3-1 win.

The result will mean half the nation will then be even more convinced that we'll win the World Cup with ease, while the other half will criticise Sven for his lack of passion/tacical inadequancies/bringing on Owen Hargreaves in the second half.*

* Delete as applicable.
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I'm still happy with the Spain result :)
 
Jaffa Cake said:
1-0 to the Germans it is, then – right at the death.
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I couldn't believe it. 91st ****ing minute. So gutted.
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Jaffa Cake said:
I'm sure the England team won't be losing any sleep tonight over Beenhakker's comments. Of course, if we really were a 'dead ball' team surely we wouldn't miss every penalty we take? :D
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That's a good answer. :D
 
I like this story quite a lot


Trinidad & Tobago assistant manager Wim Rijsbergen has launched an attack on David Beckham ahead of the World Cup clash with England.

The Real Madrid midfielder has had to endure criticism from a wide range of sources despite his immense value to Sven Goran Eriksson's side.

It was the England captain's free kick that led to Carlos Gamarra scoring the own goal that settled the Group B opener and there is no doubt that, based on the evidence of the first round of matches, Beckham has one of the best dead-ball deliveries in the game.

However, Rijsbergen is not impressed with the former Manchester United star.

"Beckham is better at selling shirts than winning football games," he claimed.

"He has a great success at Real Madrid doing that but he hasn't won any important competition since he arrived in Spain.

"Beckham is only a commercial player.

"You can see him playing at Real Madrid. He doesn't have any kind of commitment with the team.

"He doesn't give anything different to his team but, in the commercial fact, he is brilliant and that is great for the club.

"But that isn't enough on a football pitch."

Beckham gets a chance to make Rijsbergen pay for his comments in Thursday's clash in Nuremberg.
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Hurrah! My prediction for a 1-0 German victory with a goal in the second half and a Polish player sent off was precisely correct :D

Now, if only I'd put money on it :rolleyes:
 
BakedBeans said:
I like this story quite a lot
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It's true that Real Madrid bought Beckham to sell shirts, especially in Japan and it might also be true that he's better at selling shirts than winning games. However seeing as he is one of the best shirt sellers on the planet it's not really an insult to say that he is marginally better at selling shirts than winning games. In fact that would indicate that he's not bad at winning games, especially off his dead balls.

"Beckham, half man, half haircut"
 
dogbone said:
It's true that Real Madrid bought Beckham to sell shirts, especially in Japan and it might also be true that he's better at selling shirts than winning games. However seeing as he is one of the best shirt sellers on the planet it's not really an insult to say that he is marginally better at selling shirts than winning games. In fact that would indicate that he's not bad at winning games, especially off his dead balls.

"Beckham, half man, half haircut"
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The Beckham situation is strange. He was so universally admired when he first burst onto the scene, that the consensus eventually swung the other way till he was universally regarded as overrated. Now that it is almost universal agreed that he is overrated, he is now underrated as a result.

It makes sense to me anyway.
 
FleurDuMal said:
The Beckham situation is strange. He was so universally admired when he first burst onto the scene, that the consensus eventually swung the other way till he was universally regarded as overrated. Now that it is almost universal agreed that he is overrated, he is now underrated as a result.

It makes sense to me anyway.
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Pretty much spot on i would say.

That article was very disrespectful, especially considering what he has achieved in the game.
 
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