Originally posted by Ian
talent wise, we could and should have, but we were disjointed before the whole thing began in the squad we took. SWP and Heskey aren't impact subs, Walcott, Johnson and Agbonlahor are. The german defence looked weak today and had a team had a striker like rooney in form, we could've inflicted some damage. I expect Argentina to show that up much more in the next game. However, losing to them doesn't feel as bad as going out to ghana or USA would have. Time for change in personnel.
You knew the squad we had and you still predicted victory. Harry Redknapp and all the other red-top tub-thumpers were also talking about Germany's team and claiming we have more talent. I'm just glad you drove down the odds and made England favourites.
pkcRAISTLIN
England are full of lazy ing arseholes. In the first 5 minutes you could tell the poms were in trouble, nobody wants to chase and close a player down. Germany had way too much time and room to execute. Their one-touch stuff was way ahead of england’s and it fvcked me right off when the poms picked the tempo up after the first two goals- you s should’ve been playing harder and faster from the start! Never been more disappointed with their performance. Glad im not getting up in the middle of the night to watch their botched abortions for another 2 years.
Lira
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
You knew the squad we had and you still predicted victory. Harry Redknapp and all the other red-top tub-thumpers were also talking about Germany's team and claiming we have more talent. I'm just glad you drove down the odds and made England favourites.
Hey, Syst, did you see the questions I posed to Mikey Mike about being an Englishman vs being a Brit? I reckon he's a bit busy so if you could answer them for me, I'd be eager to hear your thoughts on that as well.
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Originally posted by Sykonee
I guess the Brits can at least be proud of the fact their team technically lasted longer at the World Cup than the Americans.
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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
Yes, I'm sure the Scottish, the Welsh and the Irish are well proud of that.
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Originally posted by Lira
All right, let me see if I get this straight.
Great Britain consists of England, Wales, and Scotland; and, if you add Northern Ireland to the mix, you get the United Kingdom. By all accounts, you can call all these four groups of people as Brits. You all share a common government based in Westminster (and you were governed until very recently by a couple of Scots), speak mostly the same language, have a long history together, and compete as one in the Olympics.
What is it that you (don't) share together as British, and why don't you have just one football team? I know there are historical reasons but wouldn't it be smarter to have the best players of all the UK competing together, rather than against one another? What are the cultural/political reasons that go against that?
SYSTEM-J
I'm not entirely sure why there is no Britain team, but the Olympics are definitely the exception, because the rugby and cricket teams are also divided into the individual countries.
Culturally, Britain tends to be dominated by England. The Scots, Northern Irish and Welsh don't like how they're part of an ostensibly unified nation that actually treats them as provincial backwaters. The English just get annoyed by Americans who call Scotland Scotland and Ireland Ireland, but England Britain.
bas
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Originally posted by Schadenfreude
does anyone else find it funny that germany will be the one with the gold star on their shirt this year??
:p
lol
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Originally posted by Renzo
On second thought, it looks like it wasn't a goal after all :o
lol
Nrg2Nfinit
is this bad karma for england from 1966 when they stole the world cup from the germans? Did anyone think about that?
although to be fair, england scored another goal towards the end of that extra time. So to discount that goal would be inconsequential i guess.
Lira
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I'm not entirely sure why there is no Britain team, but the Olympics are definitely the exception, because the rugby and cricket teams are also divided into the individual countries.
Culturally, Britain tends to be dominated by England. The Scots, Northern Irish and Welsh don't like how they're part of an ostensibly unified nation that actually treats them as provincial backwaters. The English just get annoyed by Americans who call Scotland Scotland and Ireland Ireland, but England Britain.
I see, thanks :)
Kismet7
England...lol.
Argentina...yah babay.
Germany...how do you say goal in German?
Ghana...underdogs taking care of business.
EgosXII
germany and argentina are both looking so strong...
COME ON NETHERLANDS tonight!!!! \o/
and check out this, interview before the WC with the American player...
more proof that the US should not ing win. Interviewer actually says they should make everybody call it soccer instead of football :S
Originally posted by EgosXII
don't know how to embed youtubez :(
Click the button on the left of the flag (right under the video) and paste the code here:
OkiDokie
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Originally posted by EgosXII
more proof that the US should not ing win. Interviewer actually says they should make everybody call it soccer instead of football :S
Thanks God Ghana kicked their ass.
Lira
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Originally posted by EgosXII
Interviewer actually says they should make everybody call it soccer instead of football :S
Well, it's Jimmy Kimmel and he obviously didn't say that seriously: it was clearly just a hook for the joke that followed (about the US being the soccer champions and the rest of the world playing for the football title).
I reckon you must get to know American humour to understand some of their jokes. There was an uproar here in Brazil a while back regarding the election of Rio de Janeiro as the host city for the 2016 Olympic Games. Robin Willians cracked the following joke on David Letterman's show:
"Chicago sent Oprah and Michelle Obama, Rio sent 50 Strippers and a pound of blow. It wasn't really fair, you know?"
