The Official World Cup 2010 Thread

[TheBig3]

Originally Posted by Dr.Seussicide

Fucking bandwagonists are pissing me off. Portugal scored 7 goals today and all of a sudden everyone's riding Portugal's dick.

Fucking posers.

Give them their time in the sun if they can tell you what peninsula its on.

[Zaqarbal]

After seeing Portugal, I wonder if it wouldn't be better for Spain to qualify in second place. If Portugal wins Brazil (which is possible) and Spain gets finally the first place in group H, then we would face Brazil in the next round. And our problems with Brazil wouldn't be purely "footballistic". The SWISS MAFIA (whose godfather is J. Blatter) won't tolerate a Brazil's elimination so early. Too much money is at stake.

Edit: We already know how referees "work" under Blatter's "reign".

[Bulldog]

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Pretty crap WC for the African teams though, plenty of physical stuff and approach, but a real shortage of skill where it matters, not to mention their normal trend of hiring coaches just a couple of months before the finals.

You could roll up the big 4 African sides: Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast and take the best players out of each, form one team and you`d still get the same ineffective game out of them.

South Africa and Algeria are just not good enough full stop unless of course they`re playing against England!!!

Yeah, the African sides in this tournament have been a real disappointment for me. Nigeria, Algeria and South Africa are just plain poor and the Ivory Coast have probably been the most flat-out boring team to watch in this tournament (shouldn't really surprise me so much, considering Sven's their manager and all). Cameroon played some very good football against Denmark, but it was really too little too late. Ghana are full of energy but no killer touch, and I can't really see them stopping Germany from progressing. It'd be so awesome if they do though.

Originally Posted by Zaqarbal

After seeing Portugal, I wonder if it wouldn't be better for Spain to qualify in second place. If Portugal wins Brazil (which is possible) and Spain gets finally the first place in group H, then we would face Brazil in the next round. And our problems with Brazil wouldn't be purely "footballistic". The SWISS MAFIA (whose godfather is J. Blatter) won't tolerate a Brazil's elimination so early. Too much money is at stake.

Edit: We already know how referees "work" under Blatter's "reign".

The way your group's gone, there may very well be just the one goal between who gets 1st and 2nd spot, never mind who gets knocked out. Best of luck next week - Spain play some really neat football, so it'd be a shame to see them go home early. Hopefully it won't come to that.