World Football Thread IX - Weltmeisterschaft Ausgabe

[Stuie]

GOAL! About time.

[atawa]

Shame, Trinidad almost made it

[Kropotkin]

1-0, should be it really. England woun't go far if they keep winning their game with that kind of play. Good show, though. I certainly enjoyed it while it lasted. Now I have to prepare for Paraguay's trashing of the Swedes.

Group B ends like this:
1. England
2. T&T
3. Paraguay
4. Sweden

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Kropotkin
1-0, should be it really.

2-0.

[Cort Haus]

Get in there!

[Locutus]

Great game Until the first goal, that is Oh well, it was fun for 83 mins, that's more than you can ask of T&T... And at least I got an exact score again.

[duke o' york]

Reasons I hate ITV:
A) They absolutely love the Scum and can't say anything against them. Ever.
B) 75 mins - "England are pretty much out of it here. If Sweden win and T&T beat Paraguay then that'll be it for England." A pretty big collection of ifs to be honest.
C) 81 mins - "They've done it!" What? Yeah, they've scored once, but the game is far from over, as you'd know if you'd bothered to watch Tunisia - Saudi Arabia just yesterday.
D) 90 mins - "Job done. England qualify." That's a really impressive volte-face in the space of 15 minutes. So do you actually like England or not? And another thing - please stop deciding that games are over after 70 minutes. You're supposed to know about football, and the first thing people know about football is its unpredicatability. So one team may have been on top for most of the game, but don't assume that they've won and start praising their players for totally unspectacular things and talking them up as the best side ever to grace a rectangle of grass.

[Note - times and quotes may not be exact, but you get the picture. ]

[duke o' york]

Have to hand it to the England fans for singing in the ground and (almost) drowning out the fat toad Sam Allardyce.

at anyone who left early.
There are very few reasons to leave the ground early:
1) Your wife is giving birth and it's announced over the tannoy to the cheers of all fans as you leave;
2) You are escorted out by her Majesty's finest after calling Gary Neville a useless Scum bast**d too close to the "family enclosure";
3) In a wooden box after you get a little too excited by the game and your dodgy ticker goes; and
4) At half-time when you've been ripped to shreds and exposed as rubbish by West Ham's forwards.

[SpencerH]

only 2 goals outa 30 shots

90% played in T&T half

70 % possession

Yeah, England sucks

[duke o' york]

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=153812

New thread.

[Kropotkin]

62 % possession mind you!

[Arrian]

Game recap on ESPN:

England secured their place in the knockout rounds of the World Cup with a 2-0 victory over Trinidad & Tobago - but the scoreline masks the ineptitude of the display...

Ouch.

-Arrian

[Cort Haus]

Wow, Freddie!!

- and he almost got a second.

England were 3 mins away from winning their group, but now Sweden can win it. That might actually help England if Equador then got a draw or better against Germany, pitching Eq vs Eng in the 2nd round. England would certainly lose to Germany if they met in the next round.

[Colonâ„¢]

Originally posted by duke o' york

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New thread.