2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

[MJ]

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They are bad, but not as bad! They just fall down a lot, they don't fall down, hold their leg, have somebody run out onto the field stretch his leg out, help him stand up, and then let him continue to run around playing the game just fine.

It's quite pathetic when you compare it to something like rugby, they clatter into each other all the time yet they get up and brush it of as if it hadn't happened. You see guys go down in football like someone has just drawn a gun and shot them. It's play acting trying to get players booked or even sent off, otherwise known as cheating.

[floridaorange]

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One thing I absolutely love about watching the world cup is the lack of commercial breaks.

[mikenytola]

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They are bad, but not as bad! They just fall down a lot, they don't fall down, hold their leg, have somebody run out onto the field stretch his leg out, help him stand up, and then let him continue to run around playing the game just fine.

[Steve Graham]

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^^^ nba

[mikenytola]

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/futbol, needs to modernize. srsly, every supersport here is inudated with replay, and -- though it is a bust at times -- replay is much more thorough than the weak officiating of fifa will ever be (yes, officiating still blows ass more than ever here).

what a profoundly different tourney this might have been, had it been called with exactitude (yeah, of course it's not over yet, but, derp derp...). anyways, it does not matter, but how unfortunate for the sport, today, in general

One thing that would help a lot also is working against obvious flops and injury delays. I mean come on, some times the guy trips and he's on the ground for a minute or two. Delays happen in all sports, but I see it a lot more with Football (soccer).

[TomTom]

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It's depressing

HERE

Thanks Mike, will have a look this evening.

of course it could have been different, playing at 2-2 is completely different than 2-1 or 3-1
Germany were the better team, it's just unfortunate this is even a discussion on so many of these matches with bad calls... Ger v Arg will be a great match, and I will be pulling for Germany!

Mike, Steve and all other English football fans...no need to worry anymore...you weren't betrayed. I have received a valuable proof that it wasn't a Goal but check for yourself and see with your own eyes.



//switching to hide mode

[bobjuice]

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Fuck me Rooney just found the net

[bobjuice]

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[MJ]

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{re: France home and away - I was referring to the Euro 2008 qualifiers - not that it matters!
it was still the first time in 50 years or something ridiculous!!}

Not really sure what your point is but anyway..

I think if you speak to the actual fans most will tell you they didn't expect us to win. What they will say is they expected a damn site more from a manager who is paid £6m a year and who's refusal to adapt during the world cup was mind boggling. They will tell you they see the exact same players week in week out in the Premiership competing as and against the best players in the world, only to turn up at the world cup and collectively be an embarrassment. They had the best of everything, accommodation and preparation, yet they still looked like they didn't know what each other was doing.

There are a few things I don't get. How come we head into the first game and we still didn't know who our first choice goal keeper was? How come we can have Rooney play up front on his own for Man United and see him score a shit load of goals, yet we choose to give him a striking partner who has clearly seen his best days for England long gone? How can we have Steve Gerrard, who single handedly keeps Liverpool afloat with his one man show from his free role, play on the left where he is obviously not at his best?

I know we are all armchair managers but come on, these seem like basics to me.

[i!!ustrious]

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/futbol, needs to modernize. srsly, every supersport here is inudated with replay, and -- though it is a bust at times -- replay is much more thorough than the weak officiating of fifa will ever be (yes, officiating still blows ass more than ever here).

what a profoundly different tourney this might have been, had it been called with exactitude (yeah, of course it's not over yet, but, derp derp...). anyways, it does not matter, but how unfortunate for the sport, today, in general

[mikenytola]

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Heinze vs The Camera.


Heinze Wins. Fatality

He hits the camera with his face and then smacks it? Way to show some professionalism and class Heinze.

[Huggie Smiles]

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{re: France home and away - I was referring to the Euro 2008 qualifiers - not that it matters!
it was still the first time in 50 years or something ridiculous!!}

[MJ]

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Scotland should have qualified having beat France home and away- its then they lose to The Faroe Islands or some such mino (spell?) !!! Scotland have always been about the passion and not so much the skill!!

I find that hard to believe seeing as though they were in the group with Holland, Norway, Macedonia and Iceland. Even so, my local Sunday pub team could have beaten France at the world cup, they were abysmal.

I'd like to think the English show a lot of passion too, it was a shame it was only the fans showing it.

[MJ]

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i agree appart from one point.....i think the commentators are exreemly bias towards england because most of them have played for england in the past or are part of the enlish "scene", you may think they talk sense because u are picking up on that bias but as an outsider i just see then as talking shit lol (again like urself without trying to sound arrogant)

There was no biased towards us at all, infact, one of the main pundits on the BBC is actually Scottish and he slated us to death after most of our games. Alan Shearer and Lee Dixon said very much the same. Like I said, not one of them had England down to win the world cup, even before it started.

Personally I never thought for one minute we could win, hence my comment earlier about us being one of the favourites. The papers are where you should be concentrating your energies, we all know they talk shit !

[Huggie Smiles]

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At the prospect of sounding ignorant, which I aren't, Scotland have no choice but to take it on the chin. They simply don't have enough quality players to qualify for major events in the first place, I'm sure Huggie will agree. England do have quality players in every department that are good enough to get us to tournaments like the world cup.. most of the time We just fail when we get there!

To be fair to most pundits and commentators on tv I think a lot of them talk sense, it's the news papers that actually report the pipe dream that we can win it. Take the BBC for instance, I'm a big fan of their coverage of any sporting occasion, particularly football and as far as I know not one of the pundits had England down to win. I have no idea what the muppets on ITV were saying as I never watched a build up on their channel.

As for the papers, I'm sure you've been told a million times, never believe what you read, it's all just tosh!

Scotland should have qualified having beat France home and away- its then they lose to The Faroe Islands or some such mino (spell?) !!! Scotland have always been about the passion and not so much the skill!!

However, its the arrogance of the English media that winds up most people.

A good game is a good game no matter who is playing. That's why we all still follow the world cup even after our teams are out (or never make it!)