The Official World Cup 2006 Discussion Thread

[ensign_lee]

This should be in my forum.

My forum needs posters DAMMIT!

GO TO THE SPORTSBETTING PART OF FTR!

[Miffed22001]

This should be in my forum.

My forum needs posters DAMMIT!

GO TO THE SPORTSBETTING PART OF FTR!

i have :P

[WildBobAA]

ghaaaaaannnnnaaaaaaa

[a500lbgorilla]

bullshit red card against US. But i guess it evens out with the goal we didnt score.

[chardrian]

make that red cards and a goal that was taken away.

That ref sucked balls. And our announcers suck too - they are making it seem like a tie was fine. It wasn't. U.S. needs to win by a huge margin against Ghana to have any chance of advancing since their goal differential sucks.

[a500lbgorilla]

nah, if we beat Ghana we have 4 pts, if Italy beats the Czechs, Italy has 7, Czechs have 3 and Ghana has 3.

USA! USA!

[Anonymous]

Oooo lucky times for the US, didn't even need to score a goal. :P

[ensign_lee]

Lucky times my ass. That ref sucked balls...

And anyone know who was officially credited with the goal that the US had? A US player or an Italian player?

[midas06]

Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Therefore he's automatically right.

Pity he's from Jaffa country though

Lucky times my ass. That ref sucked balls...

And anyone know who was officially credited with the goal that the US had? A US player or an Italian player?

According the the official FIFA website:

ZACCARDO Cristian (27' OG)

[Miffed22001]

i hate africans

They cost me money damn them.

[Pingviini]

I am now in Stuttgart and I will be attending (in addition to some other matches) Spain - Tunis on tomorrow on tuesday I will be the guy wearing some spanish t-shirt (which I'll buy tomorrow) and drinking beer. only thing differenting me from 30k spanish people is my light hair. hope you enjoy the game watching it on tv :P

Job done.

[PO$$E$$ED]

sup niggas
just got back from germany
went to 2 games- brazil vs germany and us vs italy
the US vs italy game was insane
one of the ugliest games I have ever seen

the US actually played better, even after they got down to 9 players after 2 players got sent off for mauling the italians

the brazil game wasn't great either
ronaldinho didn't play well at all

so far the best game I have seen is sweden vs england's 2-2 game
now that is what I call football
sweden has a sick team
I hope they go far

[bigred]

brazil played germany? typo po$$?

[Harry]

Ukraine owned Saudi Arabia! Shevchenko IN YO FACE!

[WildBobAA]

brazil played germany? typo po$$?

He probably meant Australia. Easy to mix up Germany and Australia................................

[PO$$E$$ED]

brazil played germany? typo po$$?

hahaha
I was high when I typed that
brazil vs croatia is what I saw

[bigred]

werd

[Black Panther]

OLEEEEEEEE OLE OLE OLEEEEEEEEE
AUSSSSSSSIE AUSSSSSSSSIE

AUS > U.S.A

obv...

[Pelion]

OLEEEEEEEE OLE OLE OLEEEEEEEEE
AUSSSSSSSIE AUSSSSSSSSIE

AUS > U.S.A

obv...

duh



Did anyone see brazil?

Once ronaldo loses a few pounds they are gunna win

[a500lbgorilla]

nah, Argentina is gonna win. WOOOOOOOOOOO

[Phew72]

Soooo, how does everyone rate England's chances v. Ecuador?

I was really optomistic about our chances before actually seeing us play the last three games.

[Staresy]

England will luckbox their way through and we'll all get to hear about how you are going to win the world cup and how you're "the best side ever".

Quick question - do people think the media hype up the England team as a method of drumming up (more) support or do you think they genuinely believe the team are as good as they are being made out to be?

[PO$$E$$ED]

england has a solid squad for sure
did you see joe cole's goal in the sweden game
holy shit
now that owen is out we will probably be seeing crouch play that position
they will beat equador with ease

[Phew72]

England will luckbox their way through and we'll all get to hear about how you are going to win the world cup and how you're "the best side ever".

Quick question - do people think the media hype up the England team as a method of drumming up (more) support or do you think they genuinely believe the team are as good as they are being made out to be?

This England team are (on paper) a first-rate world-class team. The midfield in particular can probably be argued as the best in the world.
However, between the strange tactics from the management and the perceived attitude of the players they bewilder and frustrate me everytime I watch them!!
(Not just this team either - but every team since the early to mid- eighties with only a couple of games going against this flow.)

As for the media- hype. I try not to read any newspapers regarding England because of the utter shite spewed forth from a bunch of sensationalistic bunch of tossers!
Sorry but journalists really do my 'ed in.

Anyway, Staresy, aren't you Welsh?
If the Welsh national side actually made the WC finals I'm sure we'll all be made very aware of how well they do.
A touch of sour grapes perhaps?

[Phew72]

england has a solid squad for sure
did you see joe cole's goal in the sweden game
holy shit
now that owen is out we will probably be seeing crouch play that position
they will beat equador with ease

Po$$e$$ed, thank you for your optimism.

Unfortunately, I have had it beaten in to me for a long time that ANY team England should beat "with ease" will be "hard-working", "well organized" and probably beat us on penalties.

England aren't playing well enough to win the World Cup.

However, luck is a factor in World Cups, and teams generally improve as they go on, so we still have a chance.

[Staresy]

Anyway, Staresy, aren't you Welsh?
If the Welsh national side actually made the WC finals I'm sure we'll all be made very aware of how well they do.

WE'll never make it to the World Cup Finals. We will be teased with some brief optimism during qualifying, but we have just come to accept the fact that we will never make it there!

Even if we did, I don't think we would hear about how well we'd do, we would receive some condescending and patronising load of bollocks about how "brave" we were and could "little" Wales actually pick up a world cup point after completing the unbelievable feat of actually qualifying. Seriously - have u heard the tossers on ITV over the African teams?

I actually quite like your response Phew72, it is quite refreshing to meet an England fan who has a realistic appraisal of what England are actually capable of. I happen to agree with you that England actually have a solid team on paper (it pains me to say it!) but they fail to apply some of the most simple concepts necessary at international football - the first of which is keeping the ball for long periods and making the other team chase it round the pitch.

[AHiltz]

World Cup refs for the WIN!!111!!!

I have never seen such a shitty goddamn job in a major international finals in my life. They might as well staple the yellow to their jersey and just point to it instead of being bothered reaching into their pocket for it.

The referees have been top class in my opinion, except Graham Poll's nightmare yesterday.

[a500lbgorilla]

The referees have been top class in my opinion, except Graham Poll's nightmare yesterday.

then this game sucks. Every thing is a freaking foul or worse. Some of these dives are pretty absurd.

[PO$$E$$ED]

the refereeing has been horrendous all around, except for several games

[Harry]

Anyone see the refereeing in the Ukraine vs Tunisia game??

I am cheering for Ukraine but the ref won that game for us. He didn't call the handball we commited on Tunisia's free kick, and he gave Shevchenko a penalty kick after an obvious dive.

[Muxy]

playing world cup soccer on miniclip.com

thought it would be funny to change the names of

Rooney to Dwarfman
The black dude to Boost
and beckham to Muxy
and the keeper to rilla.

[Knytestorme]

World Cup refs for the WIN!!111!!!

I have never seen such a shitty goddamn job in a major international finals in my life. They might as well staple the yellow to their jersey and just point to it instead of being bothered reaching into their pocket for it.

So I take it you missed the outstanding job the refs did in the last Superbowl then?

[pantherhound]

god, that was awful. I fancy we'll be destroyed vs Holland or even chokers portugal.

I retract my previous statement regarding referees. 9 vs 9, lol.

Also England played a lot better against Ecuador, still nowhere near the top, but that was a huge improvement.

[PO$$E$$ED]

portugal all the way

[Phew72]

...we would receive some condescending and patronising load of bollocks about how "brave" we were and could "little" Wales actually pick up a world cup point after completing the unbelievable feat of actually qualifying. Seriously - have u heard the tossers on ITV over the African teams?

The only reason Wales don't reach the WC finals is down to a lack of world-class quality throughout the whole squad and having to compete in the European qualifying region. You certainly have (and had) your fair share of class strikers and midfield players (Earnshaw, Giggs, Rush, Bellamy, etc.)
There are several countries who qualify for the finals that only get there because their qualifying region is lacking in decent opposition (*cough* USA *cough* )

World Cup refs for the WIN!!111!!!

I have never seen such a shitty goddamn job in a major international finals in my life. They might as well staple the yellow to their jersey and just point to it instead of being bothered reaching into their pocket for it.

The referees have been top class in my opinion, except Graham Poll's nightmare yesterday.

then this game sucks. Every thing is a freaking foul or worse. Some of these dives are pretty absurd.

the refereeing has been horrendous all around, except for several games

This has been (and I think always will be) a problem with the World Cup finals. FIFA lay down draconian rules and guidelines for the referees to follow, so they have very little option but to book people at every opportunity. Then Sepp Blatter has the nerve to blame the referees after they have followed his rules. pffft....
(Graham Poll's cock-up aside - looking forward to hearing fans appreciation during his Premiership matches next season. Should be a few choice songs.)

[stormshelterdave]

More fans please.

As requested... Babes of the World Cup

Is it me or does number 82 look like a ´moneyshot´ from the Hulk?

[badandy519]

I know absolutely nothing about soccer, but I just might have to start watching!!

[Pingviini]

I was watching england vs. ecuador in Stuttgart, what a boring game. About refereeing, I am a soccer ref myself and in general especially in the group matches refereeing was really good but its gone down recently. Pathetic penalty kick aussies vs. italy. Too few red cards (yes that is right, one or two more should've been given) holland vs portugal etc. At least for what I have seen the assistant referees have been amazingly good.

[zook]

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France v. Spain has been a great game so far.

[Warpe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccDyp2aRRCg

[PO$$E$$ED]

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France v. Spain has been a great game so far.

thanks bro

[zook]

Here's the link for Argentina/Germany, in OT right now:

http://espnevent1.espn.com.edgesuite...rters_cup1.asx

And I imagine this will be the one for Italy/Ukraine:

http://espnevent1.espn.com.edgesuite...rters_cup2.asx

[biondino]

ITALIA

[Miffed22001]

*sigh*

such an open draw now, yet you know england wont beat the portugeese tomorrow

[PO$$E$$ED]

portugal shall prevail tomorrow

[PO$$E$$ED]

pekerman is an idiot

[PO$$E$$ED]

argentina lost because of three reasons
1-pekerman
2- bad luck
3- jens lehmann

[Miffed22001]

argentina lost because of three reasons
1-pekerman
2- bad luck
3- jens lehmann

wrong

they substituted riqulme and make it clear they were playing for a draw with at least half an hour left.

... still a huge mistake from Pekerman in my opinion to not bring Messi on. There's a player who can kick-start swift counter-attacks and can really close a game out.

[Miffed22001]

... still a huge mistake from Pekerman in my opinion to not bring Messi on. There's a player who can kick-start swift counter-attacks and can really close a game out.

yeah, by putting cambiasso on instead of messi he left his team with no forward counter-attack threat to an awful german defence while suggesting that his team could hold out for the one-nil win.
Eriksson does it too which is why england wont win shit either playing in such a way. Obviously later stage games are always only going to be 1-0 games or penalty shootouts etc but playing negative footbal just asks for trouble.

... still a huge mistake from Pekerman in my opinion to not bring Messi on. There's a player who can kick-start swift counter-attacks and can really close a game out.

yeah, by putting cambiasso on instead of messi he left his team with no forward counter-attack threat to an awful german defence while suggesting that his team could hold out for the one-nil win.
Eriksson does it too which is why england wont win shit either playing in such a way. Obviously later stage games are always only going to be 1-0 games or penalty shootouts etc but playing negative footbal just asks for trouble.

Agreed. I've always said that attack is the best form of defense... you simply cannot sit back when leading 1-0, there has to be some kind of pro-active football.

Dwarfy's England first half analysis:

Hargreaves: Fantastic, best player on the pitch.
Terry: Solid but lost concentration when he was booked.
Lampard: Poor, giving the ball away too much.
Ferdinand: Needs to stop playing those stupid long balls.

[PO$$E$$ED]

come on portugal
still 45 min left in this game, including extra-time
go home england

[PO$$E$$ED]

the english don't have enough heart or guile to beat the Portuguese

[PO$$E$$ED]

no owen, rooney or beckham, and 1-man down, england's chances are looking grim

[PO$$E$$ED]

extra-time

Owen Hargreaves alone did not deserve to lose that match. He is a hero.

[PO$$E$$ED]

sweet victory
gg England gg

[Irisheyes]

sweet victory
gg England gg

[gabe]

lol @ rooney

hes a badass and a dumbass!

[Irisheyes]

He is a savage footballer though I'll give him that.

[PO$$E$$ED]

rooney will pay the price for losing his head in today's match

[mb2447]

Allez les bleus !

Enough said.

[bigred]

Henry > *

[Greedo017]

ok i have a question. when france scored their goal against brazil, why was their guy not offsides?

[PO$$E$$ED]

ok i have a question. when france scored their goal against brazil, why was their guy not offsides?

because when zidane's foot made contact with the ball henry was still in front of the last defender

[Greedo017]

ah ok, so its when its kicked that determines it, not when its received? what if he started ahead of the last defender when it was kicked then ran back?

ah ok, so its when its kicked that determines it, not when its received? what if he started ahead of the last defender when it was kicked then ran back?

It is when the ball is played.

Examples... in this picture, number 10 on the red team is offside, assuming number 11 plays the ball now.


In this picture, number 9 is not offside, assuming number 11 plays the ball now.

[Staresy]

damn! when did Andy Gray sign up to FTR?!?!