Official World Cup 2006 Thread

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[quote]rsg wrote:
superscience wrote:
supermick wrote:
superscience wrote:
supermick wrote:
superscience wrote:
what ive noticed about the usa team is hat they are all very fast.

How old are you?

reason for asking??

read you first sentence.

what is rong with saying usa are a fast team. or is it the missing T from hat.

There you go again, what is RONG with you!?

I’m just pulling the piss outta you man, but I’ve had 6 beers now and I still check to make sure I’m typing properly.[/quote]

Its a bad habit from texting on mobiles i cut words short and stuff, i never thought anything of it. Like using the letter U instead of YOU, or SAYIN, SAYN instead of SAYING.

Ill try to type properly in future.

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[quote]Magarhe wrote:
Australia did quite well against Brazil unfortunately too many missed opportunities … too many kicks for goal that narrowly missed, our strikers I believe, were feeling the pressure and psyched out against the “mighty Brazil” … in my opinion.

The referee seemed bias to Brazil.

Also Brazil really pushed the offside limits, getting called out quite a few times, you have to test the limits at that level, better to get an offside occassionally and be there to score a goal, than never get offside and never be ready to strike.

I don’t know if people realise this but soccer is not really big downunder, it gets hardly any airplay on TV, there are a lot of people playing it but it is nowhere near the most popular sport. So it is pretty amazing how well the team is doing. I’d say they will be very strong contenders for the next world cup. Most people down here are really impressed at how far they have come already.

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Harry Kewell is in trouble for giving the ref a blast after the game had finished. Let’s hope they just fine him instead of suspension, we need him against Croatia. It didn’t look good though, yelling in the ref’s face for a full 20 seconds telling him what a shocking game he had is not a good way of endearing yourself to the officials!

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Yea boy. Ukraine finally woke up last night with the 4-0 win over the Saudis.
It could have been 7 -0.

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[quote]bg100 wrote:
Magarhe wrote:
Harry Kewell is in trouble for giving the ref a blast after the game had finished. Let’s hope they just fine him instead of suspension, we need him against Croatia. It didn’t look good though, yelling in the ref’s face for a full 20 seconds telling him what a shocking game he had is not a good way of endearing yourself to the officials![/quote]

EVERY team needs a team member who can’t play soccer for crap, but comes on at the end of the game and kicks the ref in the nuts.

For that matter, they can come out on the lineup and nut the other teams’ star players.

OR at least, when a player is faking injury during the match, they race out and “get our moneys’ worth”, once again, you guessed it, a swift kick in the nuts.

Kewell was stupid doing that. It just shows how young we are at the politics of the game. YOU DON’T DO THAT. You don’t complain in the game, you don’t hit people etc… and you push the offside position so you have someone ready to strike. You push the boundaries of the rules, at that level.

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[quote]Magarhe wrote:
bg100 wrote:
Magarhe wrote:
Harry Kewell is in trouble for giving the ref a blast after the game had finished. Let’s hope they just fine him instead of suspension, we need him against Croatia. It didn’t look good though, yelling in the ref’s face for a full 20 seconds telling him what a shocking game he had is not a good way of endearing yourself to the officials!

EVERY team needs a team member who can’t play soccer for crap, but comes on at the end of the game and kicks the ref in the nuts.

For that matter, they can come out on the lineup and nut the other teams’ star players.

OR at least, when a player is faking injury during the match, they race out and “get our moneys’ worth”, once again, you guessed it, a swift kick in the nuts.

Kewell was stupid doing that. It just shows how young we are at the politics of the game. YOU DON’T DO THAT. You don’t complain in the game, you don’t hit people etc… and you push the offside position so you have someone ready to strike. You push the boundaries of the rules, at that level.

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Maybe Harry has picked up “whingeing Pommy disease” since he’s played in England since he was 16…

(Note to all our English friends on this thread, just having a bit of a dig at you, you wouldn’t expect anything less from an Aussie would you?)

This of course will be matched by us Aussies being infected with “jump on the winner’s bandwagon” disease if Harry goes and scores some unbelievable goal against Croatia and we forgive him for being stupid. This is of course, if FIFA let him play for being infected with “whingeing Pommy disease”! (j/k)

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[quote]bg100 wrote:
Magarhe wrote:
bg100 wrote:
Magarhe wrote:
Harry Kewell is in trouble for giving the ref a blast after the game had finished. Let’s hope they just fine him instead of suspension, we need him against Croatia. It didn’t look good though, yelling in the ref’s face for a full 20 seconds telling him what a shocking game he had is not a good way of endearing yourself to the officials!

EVERY team needs a team member who can’t play soccer for crap, but comes on at the end of the game and kicks the ref in the nuts.

For that matter, they can come out on the lineup and nut the other teams’ star players.

OR at least, when a player is faking injury during the match, they race out and “get our moneys’ worth”, once again, you guessed it, a swift kick in the nuts.

Kewell was stupid doing that. It just shows how young we are at the politics of the game. YOU DON’T DO THAT. You don’t complain in the game, you don’t hit people etc… and you push the offside position so you have someone ready to strike. You push the boundaries of the rules, at that level.

Maybe Harry has picked up “whingeing Pommy disease” since he’s played in England since he was 16…

(Note to all our English friends on this thread, just having a bit of a dig at you, you wouldn’t expect anything less from an Aussie would you?)

This of course will be matched by us Aussies being infected with “jump on the winner’s bandwagon” disease if Harry goes and scores some unbelievable goal against Croatia and we forgive him for being stupid. This is of course, if FIFA let him play for being infected with “whingeing Pommy disease”! (j/k)[/quote]

I think the whole whinging pommie thing is what you Australians made up to make yourself feel better about your history.
Im more aware of a moaning aussie disease to be honest. All except steve irwin. He seems a happy bloke.

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[quote]supermick wrote:
bg100 wrote:
Magarhe wrote:
bg100 wrote:
Magarhe wrote:
Harry Kewell is in trouble for giving the ref a blast after the game had finished. Let’s hope they just fine him instead of suspension, we need him against Croatia. It didn’t look good though, yelling in the ref’s face for a full 20 seconds telling him what a shocking game he had is not a good way of endearing yourself to the officials!

EVERY team needs a team member who can’t play soccer for crap, but comes on at the end of the game and kicks the ref in the nuts.

For that matter, they can come out on the lineup and nut the other teams’ star players.

OR at least, when a player is faking injury during the match, they race out and “get our moneys’ worth”, once again, you guessed it, a swift kick in the nuts.

Kewell was stupid doing that. It just shows how young we are at the politics of the game. YOU DON’T DO THAT. You don’t complain in the game, you don’t hit people etc… and you push the offside position so you have someone ready to strike. You push the boundaries of the rules, at that level.

Maybe Harry has picked up “whingeing Pommy disease” since he’s played in England since he was 16…

(Note to all our English friends on this thread, just having a bit of a dig at you, you wouldn’t expect anything less from an Aussie would you?)

This of course will be matched by us Aussies being infected with “jump on the winner’s bandwagon” disease if Harry goes and scores some unbelievable goal against Croatia and we forgive him for being stupid. This is of course, if FIFA let him play for being infected with “whingeing Pommy disease”! (j/k)

I think the whole whinging pommie thing is what you Australians made up to make yourself feel better about your history.
Im more aware of a moaning aussie disease to be honest. All except steve irwin. He seems a happy bloke.[/quote]

I love the aussies. It’s a fierce rivalry sprinkled with humour, fair play and good sportsmanship.

Still think you’re a bunch of arrogant wankers though :wink:

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Let you all be reminded that only one hour remains till Ecuador gets what it deserves - namely a crushing defeat!

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I cant see england beating sweden the day, they have not beat them in 11 matches.

sweden = england bogey team.

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[quote]superscience wrote:
I cant see england beating sweden the day, they have not beat them in 11 matches.

sweden = england bogey team.[/quote]

I can’t see us beating them because Neville is out, Gerrard is rested and Gawd only knows who else will be rested.

Plus they need to win whereas we’ve already qualified.

Nice to see Rooney start but I’m sure niether of the strikers will play for 90mins. Would be great to see Theo get 10mins at the end.

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Oh I hope that Sweden kicks ass today! Go Sweden!

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Germany’s looking better all the time…
(Currently up 2-0 on Ecuador)

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[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
Let you all be reminded that only one hour remains till Ecuador gets what it deserves - namely a crushing defeat!
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2-0 to Germany I’m glad you did not take me up on that offer of a bet Schwarzy!

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[quote]1-packlondoner wrote:

Great win for them but overall I thought their passing was a bit off. Not the quality of the pass itself but more the lack of vision. Joaquin was practically ignored until someone finally looked to the right…[/quote]

Huh? What game were you watching?

Spain’s passing was on point pretty much after the first fifteen minutes. Xabi Alonso and Joaquin (especially) were on fire.

What you had for a good 40 minutes before the first Spanish score was pure bombardment of the Tunisian goalkeeper. (24 - 4 shots in favor of Spain for the match) Spain had two clear scoring opportunities in the first half that were negated by incredible defensive plays.

The problem wasn’t the passing - the problem was the Tunisian defense that was very adept at closing off all the passing lanes.

The main problem in the game as I saw it is that the Tunisians knew they were outclassed, took the early defensive gaffe that was given to them by the Spaniards and then hoped to use classic catenaccio and outlast them. They almost pulled it off. Until Raul scored the equalizer - most of the game was in the Tunisian half of the field.

You could clearly see that once Spain scored the equalizer Tunisia was forced to assume an attacking stance once again (b/c Ukraine had won earlier in the day) in order to try to win the game. That opened up the passing lanes and the Spaniards promptly tore them to shreds. Simple as that.

Much respect to the Tunisians. A quality side.

Of course, it was also good to see Raul score. This is very good for morale. There was some controversy about the relationship between Raul and manager Aragones about Raul’s being unhappy coming off the bench. But fuck it, he’s getting old and he’s still not in top form.

We’ll see how the Spanish “B” team does against the Saudis.

Bring on the fucking Koreans for a rematch of 2002 quarters. This time the refs won’t save their ass.

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I guess we just fucked Equador pretty good!
Klose is developing into a world class striker. Everything is possible for us with this fighting spirit right now!

Now if you excuse me. I have to get my taxi to the stadium now, to watch the England-Sweden game here in Cologne :slight_smile:

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[quote]hotsauce wrote:

Now if you excuse me. I have to get my taxi to the stadium now, to watch the England-Sweden game here in Cologne :-)[/quote]

lucky bastard!

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[quote]OARSMAN wrote:
1-packlondoner wrote:

Great win for them but overall I thought their passing was a bit off. Not the quality of the pass itself but more the lack of vision. Joaquin was practically ignored until someone finally looked to the right…

Huh? What game were you watching?

Spain’s passing was on point pretty much after the first fifteen minutes. Xabi Alonso and Joaquin (especially) were on fire.

What you had for a good 40 minutes before the first Spanish score was pure bombardment of the Tunisian goalkeeper. (24 - 4 shots in favor of Spain for the match) Spain had two clear scoring opportunities in the first half that were negated by incredible defensive plays.

The problem wasn’t the passing - the problem was the Tunisian defense that was very adept at closing off all the passing lanes.

The main problem in the game as I saw it is that the Tunisians knew they were outclassed, took the early defensive gaffe that was given to them by the Spaniards and then hoped to use classic catenaccio and outlast them. They almost pulled it off. Until Raul scored the equalizer - most of the game was in the Tunisian half of the field.

You could clearly see that once Spain scored the equalizer Tunisia was forced to assume an attacking stance once again (b/c Ukraine had won earlier in the day) in order to try to win the game. That opened up the passing lanes and the Spaniards promptly tore them to shreds. Simple as that.

Much respect to the Tunisians. A quality side.

Of course, it was also good to see Raul score. This is very good for morale. There was some controversy about the relationship between Raul and manager Aragones about Raul’s being unhappy coming off the bench. But fuck it, he’s getting old and he’s still not in top form.

We’ll see how the Spanish “B” team does against the Saudis.

Bring on the fucking Koreans for a rematch of 2002 quarters. This time the refs won’t save their ass.

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Never said there was no quality. More that it was predictable and there wasn’t enough variety until finally Joaquin and Fabregas got into the game, at which point it opened up considerably.

It’s a similar issue that England have had in their last two games. ie keep doing one thing over and over again and wait for the opposition to make a mistake. Which they did. And which Spain’s opposition did too.

Still, for both teams the competition now begins in earnest. With Germany’s win today it’ll be fun watching Sweden try to lose tonight so they can play Ecuador in the next round.

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Guess what?

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We did it!

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Three words:

Schwarz

Rot

Gold