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The Official World Cup 2006 Thread
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Jaffa Cake said:2-0 to France. Got my fingers crossed.
Breaks Jaffa's fingers...
2-1 Italy... with my fingers crossed, my green/red/silver beads and my Italia vest on...
So far my intake of Peroni has matched Italy's goal scoring in each game I've watched. I have 8 in the fridge tonight just in case!
Ow!Applespider said:Breaks Jaffa's fingers...
I've got a couple of bottles of Kronenbourg in the fridge so I'm sorted too I prefer Peroni though, to be honest.Applespider said:
To be honest, normally I'd be backing Italy too my support for France stems simply from the fact that they and Mexico were my two picks in the work sweepstake. If France are runners up, I get £20 but if they win I get £50. My loyalties are easily bought...
Jaffa Cake said:Ow!
[Leeds chant]
You're going home... in an ambulance!
[/Leeds chant]
Time to start generating some highly random MR World Cup nominations for awards, I think. Although I'm probably not the best for this as I haven't seen much of the tournament on telly. But here goes:
Most entertaining 'minnows': Australia
Most over-rated team: England or Brazil
Orangest tan in studio: Gary Lineker
Jaffa Cake said:Ow!
I've got a couple of bottles of Kronenbourg in the fridge so I'm sorted too I prefer Peroni though, to be honest.
To be honest, normally I'd be backing Italy too my support for France stems simply from the fact that they and Mexico were my two picks in the work sweepstake. If France are runners up, I get £20 but if they win I get £50. My loyalties are easily bought...
You are a very honest person today
For a similar reason to yours I have to support Italy and to be more precise they have to win 1 : 0. I got maximum points in "our sweepstake" yesterday for my 3 : 1 prediction and have very good chances to get on top spot, if it ends 1 : 0 to Italy today... maybe I should light some candles
Blue Velvet said:
Might I also nominate...Blue Velvet said:
Best Actress: Christino Ronaldo
The Tim Henman 'This is our year' Award: England
The Graham Poll 'You don't know what you're doing' Award: FIFA's ticketing policy
just because Australia got knocked out and eveyone has gone back to footy and cricket? how will the sport grow here if it is forgotten about so quickly?Chundles said:
All kidding aside, it is quite astonishing the complete decline of coverage of the World Cup on the commercial networks after the Aussie's campaign was over. Hardly surprising and thank god for SBS.Chundles said:
agreed, on the contrary, they should celebrate the socceroos astonishing acheivement of reaching the Second round in their second WC of all time.max_altitude said:
Jaffa Cake said:
first off, i doubt you'll need qualification help
, but from what i've heard they'd keep south africa's automatic bid cause it was supposed to be theirs. of course, this is all theoretical since hopefully they'll pull it off, a SA World Cup would be pretty sweet in my opinion.moving on to the soon-upcoming game, my prediction is 0-0 after regulation, 1-1 after 120 min, and france prevails 4-3 on penalties with zidane hitting the final one for the win.
I would like it to be 1-0 with zidane scoring the winner... if zidane doesnt score than i want italy to win 17-0
1-0 Already. Lots of drama so far. The penalty did actually seem like a dive on the replays.
The defender moved to tackle the player at two points, but pulled away both times. On the replays it didn't look like there was contact, but live it most certainly looked like it, so I don't blame the judge.
The defender moved to tackle the player at two points, but pulled away both times. On the replays it didn't look like there was contact, but live it most certainly looked like it, so I don't blame the judge.
nothing would please me more then to see the French beat Italy, the only worse thing then an Italian fan, is when the Italian fans team wins.
Let's not forget that if oscars were given out for best dives in a soccer game, the Italian team would win everytime.
Let's not forget that if oscars were given out for best dives in a soccer game, the Italian team would win everytime.
Well its half-time. France 1-1 Italy...
Italy got there goal the right way, with skill, but France got there goal with pure luck in that penalty shot.
GO ITALY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Italy got there goal the right way, with skill, but France got there goal with pure luck in that penalty shot.
GO ITALY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!