World Football Thread XII

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Tuberski
It's been highly entertaining.

Yup. A really pleasant match

Even though the refereeing wasn't perfect, I don't think it significantly affected the outcome of the game. In any case, both teams had shown really nice-looking football, and great entertainment

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by SpencerH
The answer is yes. Spain wins 3-1 and dominates the game.

I say 2-0.

I imagined 2-2 back when I thought Zidane wasn't in, but I quickly had to adjust

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Flubber
I noticed that the Brazilians seemed much more acurate with their shooting. I checked and the game report supports that . Ten of 11 of Brazil's shots were on the net. Contrast with Ghana being 7 of 18.

Hitting the net seems to me to be a key talent . Its one the Swiss should practice

The Swiss got it on goal though .

[Datajack Franit]

Spain will flood France with goals. 4-0

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
Spain will flood France with goals. 4-0

I'll go with Spain by a 2-1 margin

[Solver]

The more France concede the better .

[Flubber]

In the next round I am taking Portugal over England by a 9-8 margin, the high score contributed by the efforts of referee Iwill Bookemalloff in redcarding 6 players aside.

Portugal was further shocked to find that yellows for all of their starters in this match resulted in them having only 9 players from their roster eligible to contest the semis

[Flubber]

Well -- FRance Spain we are in minute 38 and there are NO yellows even though there have been 25 fouls thus far.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Entertaining match so far. Started off slow, but got more attacking as it went on. Henry has to learn to stay onside more though. At least he realized he was waaay off on Ribery's goal.

GREAT job by the ref. Instead of ripping out a card, he calms players down by talking to them and making them understand why he is doing what he is doing. A model ref so far in the tourney!

[SpencerH]

Great game! Where did the French come from? Inspired by Zidane's retirement perhaps?

It's a pity there's no 3rd alternative for a penalty in the box.

[Datajack Franit]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
GREAT job by the ref. Instead of ripping out a card, he calms players down by talking to them and making them understand why he is doing what he is doing. A model ref so far in the tourney!

Italian ref

[SpencerH]

Well he's used to lots of fouls and diving then.

[Imran Siddiqui]

He seems fair, which is good news for the Italian national team, since he can't ref their games

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Y'EN A MARRE DU BLEU - DANS LA BOITE OU JE BOSSE, Y'A QUE DES GAULOIS ET ILS M'ONT FAIT TROP CHIER AUJOURDHUI BORDEL DE MERDE.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

everyone laught now, in two years we're gonna get a better attacking midfielder, we're gonna get a striker to play up front with frei, and then we're gonna see whats going on. its too bad sven and raymond wont be staying aboard for the fun, nothing like watching a coach run great teams into the ground.





we dont surrender - although our marksmanship from the spot leaves something to be desired. (I doubt any of these guys did the army anyways, and if they did, they were put in a special program where they dont actually have to slub around an 8 kg rifle)