Football World Cup

[Mr incredible]

Good luck against Chech republic fellas :usausausa you'll need it

[coffee-guy]

Ouch - http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/5687412?GT1=8297

[rado]

[SloppyJo]

played absolutely terrible... cze played well too

need ghana to score and tie italy 1-1
then we need to blow both of them out of the water to get to the second round

if we continue to play the way we did to today, we might as well pack our bags now

edit: Italy just scored again... dumbass defender for ghana

[Mr.Mafioso]

Ole ole ole ole...

MEXICO WOOT WOOT

[NYCmitch25]

they have to at least tie Italy to stay alive. :laughnew:

[lifterjaydawg]

We have to beat Italy to stay alive. That was a horrible performance. It's one thing to lose a game, and another thing to not show up.

[xxxkazxxx]

Japan Down, with Brazil Ahead. OUCH!

[Mr incredible]

Can't wait to see Brazil play tonight; Ronaldo, Ronaldinhio....

[Mr incredible]

Originally Posted by xxxkazxxx

Japan Down, with Brazil Ahead. OUCH!

No worries, you have a couple of good ex Leeds players (where I was from); Kewell, Big Dukes, then Cahill etc

[xxxkazxxx]

Originally Posted by Mr incredible

No worries, you have a couple of good ex Leeds players (where I was from); Kewell, Big Dukes, then Cahill etc

It's pretty exciting for us downunder. Australia hasn't made the world cup since 1974, which ironicly was in West Germany, & Tim Cahill is the first to ever score a goal for Australia in a world cup final. To qualify turned the nation upside down. To win the first game has just made the country go insane. Regardless of how far the Socceroo's go, they have already won to us!

[Mr incredible]

Originally Posted by xxxkazxxx

It's pretty exciting for us downunder. Australia hasn't made the world cup since 1974, which ironicly was in West Germany, & Tim Cahill is the first to ever score a goal for Australia in a world cup final. To qualify turned the nation upside down. To win the first game has just made the country go insane. Regardless of how far the Socceroo's go, they have already won to us!

Thats the spirit :bbq: , we expect too much in England and we're too harsh when we don't get it. Not gonna mention the rugby LOL

[xxxkazxxx]

Originally Posted by Mr incredible

Thats the spirit :bbq: , we expect too much in England and we're too harsh when we don't get it. Not gonna mention the rugby LOL

We don't expect too much from the Football team because they havn't really done too well at that level. So anything is a bonus. But the Rugby boys, Well! Now we expect everything & more from them. 2nd place just isnt good enough. And boy dosnt time fly. A little over 1 year to go till France. Next September i'm off on one of those 3 weeks tours off Europe. When it was announced we would go, we didn't even think World Cup. September was just the most appropriate time for us all to go. Then someone yelled, FRANCE, IN SEPTEMBER. And it clicked! AWESOME!! Now we just gotta try get tickets. Havn't even looked into it yet. Where the heck do I start?

[Mr incredible]

Originally Posted by xxxkazxxx

We don't expect too much from the Football team because they havn't really done too well at that level. So anything is a bonus. But the Rugby boys, Well! Now we expect everything & more from them. 2nd place just isnt good enough. And boy dosnt time fly. A little over 1 year to go till France. Next September i'm off on one of those 3 weeks tours off Europe. When it was announced we would go, we didn't even think World Cup. September was just the most appropriate time for us all to go. Then someone yelled, FRANCE, IN SEPTEMBER. And it clicked! AWESOME!! Now we just gotta try get tickets. Havn't even looked into it yet. Where the heck do I start?

Try your national rugby union for legit advice on tickets, but if your none too fussed just turn up and speak to a few touts

[xxxkazxxx]

Originally Posted by Mr incredible

Try your national rugby union for legit advice on tickets, but if your none too fussed just turn up and speak to a few touts

In otherwords, am I the kind of girl that follows the rules, or likes to break them *LOL*.

[xxxkazxxx]

We are so hyped for the match against Brazil. Our boys need to pull some serious footwork out of the oven to keep up with the likes of Ronaldinho. They have put a huge focus on improving the socceroos fitness. I think that will be a huge bonus against Brazil.

Good luck against Italy to most of you guys. And hopefully Ghana beats the Czechs!

[Shibby]

England wins 2-0. But the fans will probably still bitch about there team since the goals were scored in the last 10 minutes. Oh and Beckham got another assist on the first key goal. But he will still get hated on the most.

[xxxkazxxx]

Originally Posted by Shibby

England wins 2-0. But the fans will probably still bitch about there team since the goals were scored in the last 10 minutes. Oh and Beckham got another assist on the first key goal. But he will still get hated on the most.

I woke up at 3.30am to catch the last 20 minutes of the game, just in time to see both goals. They didn't seem to excited about scoring. Most players do cart wheels & run around like loose rabbits. Maybe they are too hard on themselves aswell??

[babyblues]

Originally Posted by xxxkazxxx

I woke up at 3.30am to catch the last 20 minutes of the game, just in time to see both goals. They didn't seem to excited about scoring. Most players do cart wheels & run around like loose rabbits. Maybe they are too hard on themselves aswell??

Well, those are the first legitimate goals that England has scored in this year's World Cup. I saw the first one, the header.

[Shibby]

Well Ghana won 2-0 helping the US out. Now the US can't be officially eliminated with a loss. But it would be best if we could win by 3 or more today.

[Shibby]

That was such an inconsistant and horribly ref'd game. Idealy, if we can beat Ghana and Italy beats Czchec we would be in. But if not there will be three way tie (assuming we beat Ghana) and it will come to points that we don't have.

[mindstar]

certainly the ref took centre stage, but I'm not sure that it was terribly inconsistent. The second red was marginal, but that's a possible broken ankle with that challenge.

I thought the US did remarkably well with 9 men, given the circumstances. Italy did look a little disorganized for the middle 60 minutes.

[Shibby]

That's a "Monday Morning Quarterback" mentality. You can't make that call on the possible broken ankle. There were SO many dives in the game up to that point. The US player got there just a tad late on the tackle. Penalty yes, yellow card.. maybe, red card... definatley not. They were basically saying that tackle with the slight mis-judgement in timing was equal to the intentionall elbow the Italian player threw busting open the US players eyebrow. The incosistancy went both ways though. It makes for a horrible game when the refs don't allow a certain pace of the game to be played. Call it strict or let them play hard. Don't decide it play by play. Don't try to even out the penalties to make it look fair. It never works that way.

[mindstar]

i agree on most points, but a red card may be given for a reckless challenge or intent to injure, especially when someone attacks with the cleats up...in the heat of the game, I think it's an understandable call. The game did lack flow due to the penalties though, and the ref is certainly the most memorable feature of the match, by far.

[Shibby]

I was just looking at the 3rd game schedules. Each group has the 4 teams (2 games) playing at the same time. I'm going to be flipping channels like crazy on thursday. I wish I had PIP.

[mindstar]

They do that so there's less chance of match fixing to ensure favourable draws for the next round...I say get a cable splitter and put 2 tv's side by side...PIP is too small.