Originally posted by Meat187
No, you're confusing real football with american football. I've watched the last SuperBowl, what a boring sport.
*awaits flaming*
The super balls :wtf:superbowls tend to be boring sometimes, but the commercials usually make up for it
But baseball on the other hand......
woscar
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Originally posted by Moongoose
Well at least in a few minutes your bound to see a massacre. Imo its not going to end well for the north koreans.
It better be, I predicted a 5-0 scoreline in my pool and everyone else seems to have gone a more conservative route and put down a meager 3-0. :p
Lira
Don't execute me, Meat, I'm trying to save the country! I don't know what weapons of mass destruction North Korea has! :nervous:
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Originally posted by leph555
:stongue:
Meat187
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Originally posted by Lira
I don't know what weapons of mass destruction North Korea has! :nervous:
I hear they're trying to build a nuke in order to power a giant vuvuzela with the pressure wave.
Lira
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Originally posted by Meat187
I hear they're trying to build a nuke in order to power a giant vuvuzela with the pressure wave.
Oh.
I reckon I'd like that. Can the airwaves reach Brasilia? We're kind of, like, in the middle of nowhere.
woscar
World Cup 2010: North Korea coach gives hostile press conference
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After replying in his World Cup press conference to the opening question about injuries — "Nobody is injured. They're all in top shape" — coach Kim bristled at a follow up from a South Korean reporter, speaking in Korean, who referred to his country as North Korea rather than the nation's official title: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"There's such no country called 'North Korea,"' he said, testily. "Next question."
Though commonly called "North Korea" abroad, the reclusive communist nation refers to itself as the "DPRK" in English or "Chosun" in Korean, the pre-colonial name of the Korean peninsula.
Fifa, football's world governing body, refers to North Korea as DPR Korea, while it lists South Korea as Korea Republic.
The exchange brought to light the political and linguistic differences between the two Koreas, which have been divided into north and south since 1945 and separated by a heavily fortified border since the Korean War of the early 1950s.
South Koreans call their country "Hanguk," and refer to North Korea as "Bukhan" — North Korea.
North Koreans call the entire peninsula "Chosun," and refer to South Korea as "Nam Chosun" — South Korea.
Kim also was asked whether North Korean leader Kim Jong Il had a say in the selection of players. A Fifa media official cut the reporter off, reminding journalists not to ask political questions.
The official also cut off a question about whether North Korea's games would be aired live in the North. The South Korean broadcaster holding the broadcast rights for the entire peninsula has said it would not feed the coverage live to the North, as it has in the past, due to political tensions.
Kim said briefly that he was "not involved" in the matter.
The North Korean coach has shown his impatience for the media in the past, notably last year in Seoul, when he abruptly stalked out of a post-match news conference after accusing South Korean officials of deliberately poisoning his players.
South Korea beat North Korea 1-0 during that World Cup qualifier held in Seoul.
On Monday, the Fifa media official, Gordon Watson, contradicted reports that the North Korea squad had been overly secluded in South Africa, saying that North Korea had fulfilled all its mandatory media obligations and describing the team "very cooperative."
This is the first time both Koreas have qualified for the same World Cup tournament. North Korea's first and only previous trip to football's marquee event was in 1966 when it produced a shocking win over Italy en route to the quarter finals. South Korea is contesting its eighth World Cup, more than any other Asian country.
Probably won't go all the way to Brazil, but in South Korea people are already quoting T.S. Eliot:
This is the way the world ends:
This is the way the world ends:
This is the way the world ends:
Not with a bang but a bzzzzzzzzzzz.
leph555
wow thats Brazil's anthem? It sounds like something from the old school cartoons, me likey!
xtr3m
Brazil is so effed. I fully expect the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to showcase some never seen before tactics on and off the field. The real tournament starts NOW!
Trance-MB
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Originally posted by woscar
Here's the thing...
Netherlands generally plays using a 4-3-3 formation and the manager switched it to a 4-5-1 formation with van Bommel and De Jong slightly behind and van Persie as a centre-forward to accommodate for Robben's absence.
Big mistake, IMO.
He should have maintained the usual formation with Huntelaar or Babel as centre-forward with van Persie and Kuyt on each side. That's why the game changed so much when Elia came in, the formation returned to the usual 4-3-3 and the Dutch's game significantly improved.
He had to otherwise they would have won with 5-0 and that would be even worse than losing the first match for our team :)
But actually everybody argees with you.
But what's much worse is that those idiots arrested 36 babes wearing the orange Bavaria Dutch dress (just 3 were Dutch) an threatened them with half a year in prison. For wearing an orange dress???? Every chair in that stadium is orange!!!
Bavaria is a beer brand from the Netherlands. A direct sponsor of the World Cup however is Budweiser. Fifa is trying to protect its sponsors and decided to have the girls arrested. A similar incident occurred during the friendly between the Netherlands against Mexico; the sponsor of the Dutch Football Association is Heineken, who claimed the dresses were in conflict with their interest as a sponsor.
Everyone should wear a Bavaria dress next game :)
Jackson
I really want Korea to win this, Brazil should be better but Korea just want it more (sorry Lira)
wotyzoid
They're playing really well, not even gonna front.
