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Football World Cup (or soccer for the americans)

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Posted 08 June 2006 - 02:11 PM

Well here we will take the bets on :
1- Who will win ?
2- Who will be the best player ?
3- The worst ?
4- Does France will pass the first turn this time (I don't think so) ?


1- Brasil.
2- Ronaldiño.
3- Togo.
4- Clearly no.
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Posted 08 June 2006 - 07:15 PM

1 - Brasil (although I don't want them to , I admit they got skillz)
2 - Henry
3 - dunno
4 - yes
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Posted 08 June 2006 - 09:52 PM

1. England
2. Crouch
3. Anyone who plays for Chelsea :(
4. Nope. Their day has been and gone.
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Posted 09 June 2006 - 04:08 AM

He's Big!
He's Red!
His feet stick out the bed!
It's Peter Crouch!
It's Peter Croooooooouch!!!

Can't wait. Getting the beers in after work, then the whole house will be watching firat game on our 48" Plasma. :cool:

1 - Germany. You can never count out the germans, also it's home advantage.
2 - Some much unknown player will rise to stardom as usual for the World CUp.
3 - Dunno =/
4 - I'm pretty sure they'll get through, annoyingly.
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Posted 09 June 2006 - 09:50 AM

1 - ENGLAND
2 - Rooney
3 - Angola
4 - no
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Posted 09 June 2006 - 06:11 PM

Well, that was a nice way to kick off the tournament. :cool: Me and another housemate cheering for Germany, two others for Costa Rica. Though basically we just wanted to see a good game. We all went ballistic when Wanchope scored. . . and again!!!

:banana:

You can never count out the German's but with a defence like they seem to have atm once they get out of the first round they are going to be under serious pressure from some top quality strikers and Midfielders. How good were the golas though? O_O

Tempo looks set to be good for the rest of the World Cup.
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Posted 09 June 2006 - 06:38 PM

Ohmigod that was a hell of a game. Two teams committed to attack and completely unable to defend. Nightmare for the purists but highly entertaining for us neutrals. And what a goal from Frings :eek:

Winner - Brazil
Player - Ronaldinho or possibly Messi if he is fit
Worst - Togo or the Saudis
France - Not if they play like they did in their qualifying group
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Posted 09 June 2006 - 09:09 PM

well I don't know whos best but I got Angola for my random fantasy pick in the office pool, so they better do good :)
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Posted 09 June 2006 - 11:52 PM

A good game to start with some very nice goals...as they said in the studio afterwards, you could almost have a goal of the day competition, never mind goal of the tournament! I have Klose on my fantasy football team too! Lucky me.

Winner: Argentina, to beat England in the final
Best Player: I've heard very good things about Messi...
Worst Team: Saudi Arabia
France to progress: yes

An England fan, but I'm expecting Argentina to win it this year. Their defence is far superior to Brazil's, and I don't think England will score two goals in the last 5 minutes this time.

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Posted 09 June 2006 - 11:57 PM

Found this on the BBC website...thought it was interesting:

BBC said:

England have won every match that Peter Crouch has appeared in. Since he made his debut in 2003, England have played without Wayne Rooney on 10 occasions and did not lose a single match, winning nine and drawing one.


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Posted 10 June 2006 - 03:35 AM

First England match in 9 hrs 25 mins! :banana:
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Posted 10 June 2006 - 04:04 AM

Worst would probably be the Saudis. Who was it that defined the World Cup as that thing where a whole bunch of teams from all over the world play, and Germany wins? Hope not, but there we are.

I wouldn't bet on them, but I'm rooting for Trinidad/Tobago as the Cinderella team that _ought_ to win, if someone is passing a miracle.
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Posted 10 June 2006 - 08:53 AM

Not long now :)
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Posted 10 June 2006 - 09:25 AM

HAHAH, i was just comin on to start a thread like this

GO THE AUSSIES
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Posted 10 June 2006 - 12:33 PM

:):) :)



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Posted 10 June 2006 - 03:11 PM

Woooohooo 1-0

Great first half .. disappointing in the second ..but three points in the bag :):)

ps polishgenius - what happened, your lot looked a bit like they gave up after they went a goal behind
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Posted 10 June 2006 - 03:15 PM

They choked. They do that a lot. Didn't help that the 4-5-1 formation wasn't working, since Zurawski had to drop so deep to get the ball he couldn't do much with it.

They decided to wake up for the last ten minutes, and we could had two or three then - why could we not do it for the whole game?


Also, on England - Sven is possibly the only manager who could be that frustrating while winning.
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Posted 10 June 2006 - 03:26 PM

RE: England Vs Paraguay

Team? :)

Manager? :confused:

Fin.
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Posted 10 June 2006 - 03:28 PM

Yeah they did seem to... they were okay till they went behind and then just faded out, other than for that late rally, but it wasn't enough

Yep .. that's too true .. Paraguay start playing better so we take a striker off and encourage them to come at us as we sit back :confused:
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Posted 10 June 2006 - 03:42 PM

Didn't look like any of the english players had any stamina to follow up an attack anyway, so they might as well sit back and safe it in. Looked like it worked too. Paraguay didn't have a decent chanse to speak of in the second half.
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