World Football Thread XXX - Germany 2006

[Barnabas]

Originally posted by Maquiladora

Lampard was voted 2nd best player in the world for example

He was voted 2nd best player in the world in some english pub right?

[kittenOFchaos]

If England started playing shorter passes and closer into the attackers Ecuador would be getting thrashed at this point.

England have been poor, Ecuador, god-awful.

Lampard has been a bag of ****e so far, take him off.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
but Dave O'Brien is pretty good

The guy is a baseball announcer and it shows. Constant jabbering about statistics followed by inane statements of the obvious.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, he's a baseball announcer (probably the best baseball announcer in the country, btw), but has done a bang up job as lead announcer for the WC. Really got up to speed quickly.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Beckham 1 - Ecuador 0

[SpencerH]

I havent changed the channel so the DVR is still recording shall I go back and pick out a couple of minutes of his "bang up job"?

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Maquiladora
Lampard was voted 2nd best player in the world for example, but doesnt get a mention from you.

So was Beckham, twice. Tells you something about how much that's worth

[Imran Siddiqui]

Oh wow... he made some mistatements during his 90 minutes of announcing .

Please, the BBC has their own list of howlers made by their own announcers at the WC. When you are up there for 90 mins you are going to make some mistakes.

I'm sure he makes plenty of misstatements while announcing a baseball games as well, yet he's acknowledged as one of, if not the, best baseball announcer.

[atawa]

Last win of the tournament for England..

[Dauphin]

Wasn't pretty, but job done for England.

Bring on Portugal

[Solver]

England has been, to me, the biggest disappointment of this tournament. I definitely thought they were among the most likely to win the cup, now I can't see this happening.

[SpencerH]

Starting from Beckhams substitution (random selection by me)

O' Brian: "and a big hand for Beckham who has the only goal of the match among his fans his wife the former spice girl Victoria"

10 sec of (blessed) silence

"and so far that has held up England on top by one"

"and Lennon coming on and indeed he was impressive he gave them terrific life"

"Carragher"

"also a second half substitute for Sven gore-an Ericson" (thats how he says it)

"Reasco wasting precious seconds here off to Espinosa"

"heres Lennon who right away gets the crowd excited"

"Gerrard looking for Lampart Hurtado will spoil it" (Gerrards crappy pass goes right to Hurtado's feet)

and on and on ad nauseum in a monotone with no punctuation

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by SpencerH
and on and on ad nauseum in a monotone with no punctuation

Perfick voice. It sounds just like how England were playing.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Dauphin


Perfick voice. It sounds just like how England were playing.

[reds4ever]

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