The Official World Cup Thread (no.1)

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In his defense, and mine as well, he had a lot of beer

 

He was poor for both teams, he didn't have a clue what he was doing.

 

Well, it could be worse, like the one who lead the Argentina-Ivory Coast game last night.

 

That was a brilliant match that was.
Argentina are looking pretty good and look like they mean business.
Ivory Coast impressed me greatly aswell. Really fit side.
Sweden should have beaten T&T but hey, good on 'em! I love to see the underdog do well. Fair play, about half a dozen of their players might have got sent off, but still! Great result for them!

Now it's just a win vs T&T and we've qualified, a professional, solid performance will secure that victory. Then so long as we don't lose to Sweden, we've won this group without coming out of second gear. We'll need to up our game against the good teams though. Big time.

 

Overperforming underdogs are exactly what the neutral observer (like me) wants to see.

 

We play Austrtalia in about half an hour or more, that'll be interesting to see how we do. If we don't play Van Gisbergen and Olly Barkley today I think I might scream. If we don't turn in a good performance it's time for Robinson to walk the plank. The bloke is a bloody plank!!
We have two brilliant try-scorers in Josh Lewsey and Mark Cueto, yet they never see the ball, it's a travesty and the blame can only go to Charlie bloody Hodgson and clown-Robinson.

Edit - Woops I put this in the wrong thread.

[ June 11, 2006, 11:29: Message edited by: Barmy Army ]

 

We *have* to beat England now, and Paraguay. We had like 20 shots at the goal in the game, and none went in...

 

Booooooring.

Second half was dreadful, it almost seemed like everyone didn't feel like playing football very much. Well, like England, at least we got off with the 3 points, and in the end that's the only thing people will remember.

And what's with those friggin shadows on the pitch, whenever the ball is in that section, i can hardly see anything.

 

I didn't think it was a bad game. If Serbia could actually put a decent cross into the box, they might've got a goal with that big forward. But the balls in were terrible.

Robben had a good game and made trouble whenever he got the ball. The other games in this group will be interesting now.

 

I agree Barmy. We're desperately lacking some creative flair in midfield. Can we borrow Beckham? Or Gerrard?

Deserved win for Holland, but apart from Robben who we couldn't stop, I wasn't that impressed with anybody. I wonder how they'll fare against the much faster Ivorians...

 

Not bad. Not at all bad. I wouldn't even think of playing with these temperatures.
Slightly chaotic game every now and then. Lots of minor mistakes etc.
Robben was good. Van Persie was a sneak in the second half, seemed he wasn't even touched by his oponent, but he gained a free kick.

 

Same way as we dealt with Cameroun two weeks ago, we simply score on goal more than they do. If we stay focussed in defense, i don't forsee too much trouble, Ivory coast sometimes plays completely chaotic and are completely depending on Drogba, or so it seems. Guard him well, and they're pretty helpless. I was more worried about Serbia up front, since they hardly got any goals against them in the qualifying rounds, but then i remembered you were playing Spain and Belgium, not the best teams when it comes to scoring. And besides, we're making a habit out of beating Serbia, no matter if it was a difficult game, like in 1998 or today, or a complete walkover, like in 2000, we always come out victorious.

 

I thought Mexico looked pretty handy, even if they were only playing Iran.

 

They're a bit ropey at the back though, Marquez can't do all the work himself. As soon as they meet a decent side, they'll get out-gunned.

 

@teekc: someone somewhere must be making a compilation of all the stupid things O'Brien says. Really unbelievable: armed with only a dossier of useless trivia about the players and no understanding of the game, he manages a non-stop stream of inannities....

Now *that's* something I'd place a bet on. Did you even make it 24 hrs, BA?

 

I wish I had $1 for all the times I've said I'm never drinking again.

 

conservatism plague all matches except the first one. Score one early => walk around aimlessly early and sub out stars early.

 

There is a book with many weird quotes of Johan Cruijff. The man has a good knowledge it seems about the players, but he sais so many weird, stupid or obvious things that they made a compilation. Quite a fun thing to read.

 

I wish Portugal would get another goal. Bring on Nuno Gomes!

 

From the POR - ANG game on ESPN2, i confirmed my theory,
football tv commentary must have a Scottish or Irish accent to be enjoyable