World Cup 2006

Mordalles · Sat 01/07/2006 19:00:50

ENGLAND OUT = Huge amounts of joy!

not that there was any doubt.

Privateer Puddin' · Sat 01/07/2006 19:02:33

Sad thing is, unlike when England normally go out, there's no one i want to win now

LimpingFish · Sat 01/07/2006 19:03:39

England v Portugal.

Well, you've got to hand it to England. At least they're consistant.

m0ds · Sat 01/07/2006 19:05:51

Ohh man

England played really well - I was impressed with their defence & the way they handled the second half without Becks & Rooney. Some of the Portugese players really stank with their "fake" fouls, I really don't think they deserved to win - but hey - maybe I'm biassed

SSH · Sat 01/07/2006 19:20:25

I'd just like to say to those poor gutted England fans...

HAW-HAW!

Timosity · Sat 01/07/2006 19:20:50

England Gone in Penalty shots, I reckon golden goal after normal full time (or even after extra time) for as long as it takes should be the only way to possibly decide a game. Penalties just mocks the credibility of any close match.

Portugal did have the better opportunites and looked better on the field but as England were down to 10 men for much of the 2nd half, they really had to just concentrate on defence. I'm glad Rooney was sent off, whether it was deserved or not is irrelevant, he's just a dick head, not a bad player but he needs to do a bit of growing up.

If Brazil make it through later tonight, I think the previous game was irrelevant regardless of result.

Go Brazil

Things I hate about this game is the amount of diving, bad acting, and not using a video ref for some decisions, especially in close games where teams have trouble winning on their own merrit. It's been in the game forever (they even practice dives at training trying to look as convincing as possible) and it's time they started cracking down on it by using video footage.

The obvious way to tell if it's fake is if the guy goes down in agony and gets up fine a few seconds later, some act on a bit longer and then get the ball and forget they were limping. a lot of the time if they quickly got back up they might create an even better opportunity, fucking idiots.

And a nice rule just to change things tactically and promote attacking play would be to have a similar rule to the Backcourt rule in basketball. Which means once you've crossed the halfway line, you can't go back (with the ball) or pass the ball back into the other half.

Sorry to bitch about this sport but it can be a very frustrating game

m0ds · Sat 01/07/2006 19:45:04

And I'd just like to say to the Scots...

(We know you're laughing ><)

SSH · Sat 01/07/2006 19:48:11

Just watch the tennis, now....

look, its only becuase you rant on about 1966 all the time that we get fed up with England. If you'd just shut up about that, we'd support you, but as it is we know if you win again we'll hear about it for another 40 years...

Privateer Puddin' · Sat 01/07/2006 19:49:15

We have nothing else to rant on about!

and it's not like whenever Scotland comes up on something world cup ey, they don't rant on about that goal you scored against.. holland?

and also, this amused me:

Quote from: Timosity on Sat 01/07/2006 19:20:50Go Brazil

QuoteThings I hate about this game is the amount of diving, bad acting

Nacho · Sat 01/07/2006 22:01:39

Any french AGSer? No? Ok...

How I hate France!!!

Privateer Puddin' · Sat 01/07/2006 22:05:16

I too hate france, but i hate them all the time so

but i'm glad they knocked out brazil

Pumaman · Sat 01/07/2006 22:10:47

Surely out of 60 million people, we must have a decent goalkeeper somewhere?

Sam. · Sat 01/07/2006 22:14:03

I caught a ball once, can it be me?

Mordalles · Sun 02/07/2006 00:05:48

yay! france beat brazil too!

Layabout · Sun 02/07/2006 01:30:55

At least some other country will have a chance to win the World Cup. My money is on Germany (That is if I betted any money, not that I have...)

Bad Referee's, Bad Playing, Bad Acting, and Lack of Video Ref brings down the credibility of the sport. They really need to join us in the 21st century.

At least in any other major sport, a penalty is scrutanised with a video ref, who can watch a replay with detail.

Too bad to England. Rooney's dismissal was unfair. Cheating is far too prevalant in this sport.

Oh well.

Go France... (my best mate is having a baby with a french lady. He is in hospital right now. It's very possible the baby has arrived, but I don't know yet...) I am also good mates with his missus...

Timosity · Sun 02/07/2006 03:43:32

I really couldn't care now, the teams left aren't really that exciting to watch, Germany are the last team left out of my predictions, maybe that's a sign to say they cant win

Las Naranjas · Sun 02/07/2006 11:06:23

Video refs simply take longer to make the wrong decision with less excuse for doing so. League should get rid of them, and football shouldn't consider them.

deltamatrix · Sun 02/07/2006 15:51:16

Damn you Portugese actors. Bring on FOOTBALL PLAYERS!!.

With all these fake fouls and useless refs you get plus the fact that England can't score a penalty to save the universe, i'm skeptical of watching Euro 2008 at all!
And all these lame football songs/remixes you get in the wake of a footie tournament don't help.
Maybe they should make a footie song that focuses on all the missed penalties/bad lampard strikes/missed crouch headers/ in our repertoir instead of how great we claim to be. At least that would be different!

I hope lampard is withdrawn! He sucks!

DoorKnobHandle · Mon 03/07/2006 17:19:11

F**K THE FIFA!!! Seriously, they have been taking all the fun out of soccer for the last years and are corrupt as hell.

Italians (known for their own corruptness in soccer since that whole desaster surfaced about the clubs there) have successfully made the FIFA believe it was right to forbid Torsten Frings (best man against Argentina) to play against who - Italy. This is outrageous. Argentinian player's have started that mess after the game! The "victim" already said that he WASN'T FREAKING HIT ANYWHERE! How come they STILL do this to him even when the VICTIM says there was NOTHING? And seriously, Schweinsteiger and other people WERE HIT SERIOUSLY by Argentina-players, but there, they don't fucking investigate. Oh, and Netherlands against Portugal? They've been hitting, pushing and fouling each other both harder and more often and there again, they don't care for some reason.

This is really sad, and this is going to make it a lot harder against the good Italian team (who now claim to have not influenced the FIFA at all. Haha, And Clinton never had any affair with another girl, right?) and it's COMPLETLY UNFAIR and against everything the FIFA is SUPPOSED to be.

DoorKnobHandle · Mon 03/07/2006 19:16:53

HA! And now those idiots have disqualified the whole team of GREECE for every international events (for example the upcoming Europe Cup and of course all greece clubs for the uefa cup, champions league etc.) just because they somehow didn't accept the FIFA enough or something.

That's not even funny anymore, somebody needs to seriously kick their asses.

World Cup 2006

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