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Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Thu 08 Jul 2010, 11:01 pm
by Pani
I find it a bit scary. Every win/loss 100% right!

Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Fri 09 Jul 2010, 9:28 am
by Patrick Bateman
Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Fri 09 Jul 2010, 10:43 am
by Pani
So, Paul has predicted Germany to win the small final.
Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Fri 09 Jul 2010, 1:28 pm
by TheGardner
4:1 against Uruguay and Spain wins another egoistic "we-need-the-ball-for-us-to-play-along-and-wait-for-our-chance" 1:0
Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Fri 09 Jul 2010, 3:14 pm
by Your Funny Uncle
Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Fri 09 Jul 2010, 9:04 pm
by Pani
Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Fri 09 Jul 2010, 10:37 pm
by Patrick Bateman
There's a report on Newsnight at the moment implying that Nigeria threw their games.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/n ... 805137.stm
No word on England yet.

Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Sat 10 Jul 2010, 8:41 am
by diana
Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Sat 10 Jul 2010, 5:03 pm
by Patrick Bateman
What do the black South Africans think about the Dutch getting to the final? It's a bit of a slap in the face to *their* sport on home soil, isn't it? Just as well that the De Boer twins have retired.
Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Sat 10 Jul 2010, 7:50 pm
by Undertaker
David Beckham had the Uruguayan keeper as the best of the tournament. Thats at least 3 shocking saves i can remember. Two costing goals. Don't really want to jinx him but i think Neuer has been the best goalie.
Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Sat 10 Jul 2010, 9:17 pm
by Patrick Bateman
It says a lot about modern football that the third-place play-off was probably the best game of the tournament.
Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Sat 10 Jul 2010, 10:06 pm
by Undertaker
Patrick Bateman wrote:It says a lot about modern football that the third-place play-off was probably the best game of the tournament.
Probably proves that everyone is dead set on not getting beat, rather than trying to win. Brilliant game tonight. They both just went for it.
Not sure why referee's are not red carding those challenges over the top ob the ball. They are horrible. You could even see how bad it was in real time on the t.v.
Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Sat 10 Jul 2010, 10:27 pm
by Patrick Bateman
Undertaker wrote:Probably proves that everyone is dead set on not getting beat, rather than trying to win. Brilliant game tonight. They both just went for it.
The fact is the best team over the last few years are going to win the World Cup tomorrow, and deservedly so. Other teams would have been better off just going for it, and going out with a bang rather than a whimper. Look at how pathetic England were against Algeria. If they score in that game they're through as group winners, and arguably in the semi-finals.
I honestly think that FIFA should look into making football a ten-man game to open some space up on the pitch because football as a spectacle is dying.
Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Sun 11 Jul 2010, 11:14 am
by Kris
I don't think it would have made much difference if England had topped their group because they probably wouldn't have beaten Ghana anyway. Ghana were one of the few high points of a pretty drab competition and I loved watching them.
I still think the ball played its part, though. Obviously teams are manipulating it better now as the class of player is higher and have had time to get used to it but early on it was playing havoc and the standard of play was woeful at times.
Re: Football Season 09-10/2010 World Cup Thread
Posted: Sun 11 Jul 2010, 12:00 pm
by skyhigh
Patrick Bateman wrote:The fact is the best team over the last few years are going to win the World Cup tomorrow....
Holland?
