World Cup 2010

[Bobby Sands]

^^Galatasaray moved into a new stadium. they dont play at Al Sami Yen anymore which kinda sucks because that was a great stadium.

yea would have been nice to see Turkey getting it. Apparantly Israel gave them the vote that won if for France. :suspicious:

Dpg, one is corrupt as the other and have a huge French influence in modern times.

This will be third time France will get to host the Euros. they have held the WC twice as well.

Which WC is England in the running for? If they dont get to host that, it is a disgrace imo. Spain has only hosted the WC and the Euros once as well

 

[Bobby Sands]

Ireland 3 Algeria 0

Algeria are shite especially their shit defence and keeper. he is shocking. England should beat them comfortably and maybe should play Crouch in that game. Although Bougherra didnt play, they couldnt deal with any high ball. poor team. I still cant believe that they managed to beat Egypt in that playoff. Egypt are a much superior team.

that said, i dont begrudge them their place at the WC. they have a good support.

 

[Flipmo]

Apparently the fans who showed up to the Serbia 1 - 0 loss to NZ were quite bad. Boo'd the NZ national anthem, threw bottles at people on the field, some drunken idiot invaded the field.

 

[Bobby Sands]

retarded supporters. booing the other teams national anthem is a disgrace except when Ireland play England lol.

I wonder if Serbia will disgrace themselves like they do at nearly all the tournaments they have been in. Like when they stood up and let Argentina past the ball about 100 times without even putting pressure on them.

 

[S O F I]

^Yeah the shit was a disgrace. We don't approve of those fans' behavior.

On a brighter note, this is coming in the mail:

 

[Flipmo]

The kit doesn't look too bad one of the better for the WC, even though Nike are full of shit with their templates this time around. As for the fans, I wouldn't even call those people fans. It's just people who use sports for an excuse to stir up shit.

I'm all for chanting shit, even if the chants are aggressive by nature, and am all up for flares, but when you're throwing bottles (at your own team at some points) and boo'ing national anthems... there's a problem. Itsa poop.

 

[S O F I]

^No disagreement here.

and yeah, the white cross-like lines give it a bit of a Swiss spin which I'm not too enthused about.

 

[Bobby Sands]

you know what id love to see?

these tough Serbian supporters booing the NZ national anthem at a rugby match in front of the match and maybe boo the Haka as well while they are at it. that would be funny. they would not leave the stadium alive lol

 

[Duke]

Put those Serb "hooligans" against some Italian Ultra's or English blokes.


It'd be fun.

 

[DJ Manny]

spain 3-2 saudi arabia spain just slighty won thanks to Fernando Llorente

 

[Flipmo]

England beats Japan 2 - 1 without scoring a goal. Why do I say that? Well ... Japan had 2 own goals, and Lampard didn't score on his penalty shot.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

Yeah Japan were unlucky. I quite like how they play

 

[Duke]

I was just about to post that, lmao. Any of you seen the match? Was England poor? How did Japan play? Wasn't much cop when we practiced against them.

 

[Bobby Sands]

England were rubbish to watch. a lot of their players just arent technically good enough. no guile and little flair. The fact that some of their pundits think that they have a chance of winning makes me laugh and to watch England play on ITV would make you sick.The amount of shite they go in with and i notice when the team isnt doing well they start to turn against them like their shite supporters

just not good enough. Capello as manager is a plus and for that reason i think they should make the quarters or semis.

 

[Duke]

On paper, the English can field an excellent team, though. Weird that it doesn't always work out in practice.

Who do they have on goal these days btw? Green? Is Joe Hart with the selection? He seems to be the next big thing, right?

 

[Bobby Sands]

they are serial bottlers. Nothing weird about it lol

They have some good players. no doubt about that but overall they arent good enough imo. they have a lot of mediocre players as well and as i said, very little flair and craft in their team.

Hart has had a good season but Reina was hands down the best keeper in the league this season and its baffling how he was overlooked for the team of the season. but Hart is a good keeper but another young player being vastly overrated by the english. Green will probably start id imagine. If they start the other clown, James in goals then they are fucked altogether lol

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

Our wingers are poor.

Walcott, how can he honestly go to the WC?

 

[Bobby Sands]

yea but he shouldnt start.

all that said, if England lined up with something like this and bearing in mind that Capello is manager then you'd never know:

Green

Johnson Terry Ferdinand Cole

Barry

Lampard

Lennon Gerrard Cole

Rooney.

 

[Duke]

I'm sayin. There's enough individual quality to go around, but they rarely seem to gel as a team.

The English public, as always, have sky high expectations.

 

[2Pax]

Not to sound too pessimistic but I stopped expecting 8 years ago when it dawned on me that we are bottlers, we'll get to the quarter finals and then go "oh shit we're in a quarter final, what do we do, I know, lets lose".

When (or if ever) players start reproducing thier club form for thier country then maybe we'll have a chance.