World Soccer thread III

[Imran Siddiqui]

Ukraine ain't a bad squad... at least if you look at their point totals during this qualification run.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

next stop for Israel is switzerland on sept 3rd. and trust me, their antics of flopping around wont work because the officials will be looking for it. half the starters have yellow cards from diving.

[Locutus]

Ukraine is a team very strongly on the rise. People who actually know what they're talking about (i.e. noone on this site ) predicted that they would rule before the qualifiers started. They've been very close to a final tournament every time for the last 4 tournaments, just had a lot of bad luck with tough draws. It was inevitable they would qualify sooner or later. Their club teams are rapidly rising in the UEFA rankings too. This year Ukraine's clubs scored the same number of points as Portugal (which didn't do too shabbily either with a UEFA Cup finalist). Two more years like that and they'll break into the European top 10.

I would've sworn I predicted Ukraine would be on the WC in Paul's prediction competition but turns out I swapped them for Denmark at the last moment

[MikeH]

BAH!

Sig changed.

Hope you get knocked out by some Azerbaijanies in the first round.

[reds4ever]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/4613695.stm

Mike, get that sig sorted

Imran, you owe me $20

[MikeH]

I'd already done it.

[MikeH]

Starting your competitive season in July - tough.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by MikeH
Starting your competitive season in July - tough.

Yeah, I thought as holders we should've gone straight through to the knockout stage, or at least be seeded

The killer will be the Asian mini-tour, there is a lot of money tiedup in that, if we cancel that and then end up getting KO'd in the qualifiers......

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by MikeH
I'd already done it.

beat me by two minutes, if I hadn't gone overboard on the smilies I'd have had you!

the second sig is a bit churlish...I'd expected better of you.....

[MikeH]

You don't know me very well then.

[Locutus]

Well, the World Cup U20 has started today in the Netherlands, and what a start it was! An amazing match between the Netherlands and Japan, one of the most entertaining matches I've seen all season (and it's been quite a season)

Now, question for the Americans: I'm gonna be attending 2 American matches this week and certainly against the Germans I'll be rooting for the Yanks However, I don't know any American football chants. I know Argentinian, Brazilian, German, English, Dutch, French and Italian chants, but no American ones. Are there any? Could someone post a few examples? I could cheer the generic 'Campione' but we all know that's not gonna happen

[reds4ever]

Don't sing, just fill your face with hotdogs...you'll fit right in (Oh, and whatever you do, make sure you don't let on you know the finer points of the game).

[Agathon]

Haha Mike and Imran.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by reds4ever
Don't sing, just fill your face with hotdogs...you'll fit right in (Oh, and whatever you do, make sure you don't let on you know the finer points of the game).

I doubt there'll be many actual Americans attending the game, we don't have too many around here. Most of the audience will be German (being only 5 miles from the German border and all)...

Then again, the same strategy should work for them

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Agathon
Haha Mike and Imran.

It was a bit of no-brainer really, it was easy to get Liverpool a place in the CL and the sh1t UEFA would 've caught for not doing it far outweighed the need to do a little bit of re-juggling.


Thats what MikeH didn't understand, they are politicans at the end of the day - if they can kop (geddit?) out and please everyone, then thats what they'll do,