World Cup 2006

[yianni]

Just score a fucking goal and get more than 1 point in our 3 games and I'm satisfied

Come on which of our players will have the honour of being the first ever Australian in history to score at a World Cup

[toxic rooster]

I will be fucken spewing if it ends up being someone like Mile "I'm shit" Sterjovski

[SammyG]

The AUS-JPN game is gonna fucking SUCK. It's gonna end up 0-0 too.

[Cactus Sid]

It'll be pretty hilarious if you lot get trounced.

Viva Ceska today, just to wipe the smug look of me Yank mates :D

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">I dunno who to support between the chinks and the Aussies.

On the one hand Japan have the legendary Yoshi Kawaguchi, who would come and warm up for half an hour with a massive smile on his face before every game even though he was never gonna play ahead of Big Black Shaka :'(

But on the other hand, i like Yianni and Wee Gooner. :(</font>

[Mr. Monday Morning]

The AUS-JPN game is gonna fucking SUCK. It's gonna end up 0-0 too.

Haven't seen many of their games, have you

[Rob]

<font color="#ff6600">I dunno who to support between the chinks and the Aussies.

On the one hand Japan have the legendary Yoshi Kawaguchi, who would come and warm up for half an hour with a massive smile on his face before every game even though he was never gonna play ahead of Big Black Shaka :'(

But on the other hand, i like Yianni and Wee Gooner. :(</font>

Japan aren't chinks.

[toxic rooster]

Rob is right.

Gooks, yes. Chinks, no.

[packt up]

Rocisky,Nedved,Koller, all great players. Also Cech in goal is amazing. It is gonna be a really tough game to win. USA seems to be pretty prepared though. I honestly think they can get a draw out of this, and why not a win. Getting at least 1 point outta this would be huge.

Koller is shit.

However Czechs should still destroy you.

Pretty good games yesterday but don't really have anything to say about them. LOL at Rooney maybe playing on Thursday. Sven really sticking it to Fergie or the biggest knee jerk reaction or both.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Just score a fucking goal and get more than 1 point in our 3 games and I'm satisfied

Come on which of our players will have the honour of being the first ever Australian in history to score at a World Cup

FIRE UP U CUNT :D

[SammyG]

Greece beat the Czechs 1-0 during Euro 2004. The U.S.A can do it too.

[toxic rooster]

Ref is losing control of this game. Schwarzer was clearly fouled there.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">I dunno, Schwarzer looks about 2 foot taller and about 5 stone heavier than the little Jap guy, had he jumped and gone for the ball, he'd have crushed the little guy and got the ball i think :$</font>

[Mr. Monday Morning]

He needs goalkeeping lessons from Shaka

[toxic rooster]

The little Jap guy just shoved him out of the way.

[SammyG]

I was wrong. Not a bad first half. Viduka is the man for AUS.

[LK]

Moore shoved he little Jap guy into the keeper.
Fixed.

[Ogen]

Gooner you sickening bastard why would you watch an Oi Oi game at home you should be in a pub or failing that somewhere having a barbie eating shrimp with it on a outdoor

[toxic rooster]

I'm out of money.

[toxic rooster]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">Poor Yoshi :(</font>

[Mr. Monday Morning]

yianni's in a gutter somewhere (again)

[Rob]

<font color="#ff6600">Poor Yoshi :(</font>

He deserved what he got. Lunatics come that far out for crosses that aren't 100% catching.

I thought Japan were the better team and had the better play but even though they definately should have had a penalty before Cahill's second goal, they have nobody to blame but themseleves. In the final 3rd, their passing was the shits. They should have won 3-0 at least.

Good luck to the filthy Aussies though.

And can we get a update on yianni's condition?

[toxic rooster]

Though I'm not sure what the hell Rob is on about and even if he was watching the same game, I'm glad that 'goal' ultimately didn't end up costing us anything.

[SammyG]

Wee Gooner is the man. He predicted the score, 3-1 in a MSN convo. Propz.

[yianni]

Nah lads I was at South Melbourne Hellas social club with a few other lads enjoying the game. We all lost it in the final 10 minutes - WHAT A FUCKING FINISH! Cahill has the honour of being the first Australian to score in a World Cup. I'm still not sure if it was a foul on Schwartzer for the 0-1, either way it was a very arsey goal to concede. But the lads pressed and pressed and were denied by some solid keeping. Then finally the floodgates opened, I'm just wrapped all of my expectations have already been exceded (score 1 goal and get more than 1 point).

Goal difference of +2 will come in handy cos against Brazil we're gonna cop it.

You guys should have seen some of the text messages Downunder and I were exchanging amongst each other during the first 80 minutes, if you think we're pretty racist on here you would be :| :eek: at some of the shit we were saying about the fucken Gooks. Oh speaking of which, this is my tribute to the cunts. My favourite Japanese player's name features on the second line:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/yianni/Muckoff.jpg

:D

The best was the Jap cunt called Miyamoto - yamoto means "fuck" in Greek. Cunts tonight screaming out "KICK TO 'ME GAMOTO!' " ahahaah gotta love the wogs that support Australia :lol:

[Y2Ant]

rofl japan

come on you czechs

[toxic rooster]

Absolutely ejaculated with joy 4 times in 10 minutes there. Once for each goal, and once for the final whistle. Japan probably had more quality players on the pitch, but it was all Australia tonight.

Though scrappy and the fault of the keeper, Cahill's first was worth the 32 years we've waited for it. His second was pure class, not to mention collective ejaculation of Aussies everywhere. The third was poor defending; the defender knew Aloisi was left footed, so he tried to show him onto the right but ended up showing him the goal, Aloisi skins him and the rest is history.

Australia fully deserved that. Much better possession, more shots, more shots on target, and should have had a clean sheet. Even if the little Jap cunt was completely innocent (he wasn't) 9 times out of 10 that's a foul just for being there.

I don't like Wilkshire at all. More than once tonight he got caught out in defence, on one run he let Alex just completely embarrass him on his way to the edge of the box. The other thing is, Australia really have to watch themselves around the box. They give away far too many dangerous fouls in and around the box (and should have had a penalty against them tonight). Absolutely CANNOT afford that against Brazil.

I would have liked to see big Dooks hold up the ball a bit more early on, instead of trying to go forward all the time. It wasn't as noticeable later in the game when Kennedy came on and we were throwing men forward.

Now we have a huge game against Brazil to look forward to in a week's time. Absolutely anything from this game would be a dream for us. We're in the enviable position now of not needing to get points from it, too. I believe now we will go through if Croatia and Japan draw.

[packt up]

Didn't see the second half but I bet the Aussies were dirty cos they are all convicts and should be in jail especially Lucas Neil. He is a fucking dirty bastard.

Cahill is a fucking nobend as well.

Anyway Koller has just scored to make me look like a dickhead but at least I predicted a Czech win (though who didn't).

[toxic rooster]

Koller is shit.

Shit enough to SCORE INSIDE 5 MINUTES

[toxic rooster]

Yeah. I think a lot of us had this romantic notion that everyone would want to support Australia as their second team.

Not after our performances against the Dutch and tonight, though.

[packt up]

Shit enough to SCORE INSIDE 5 MINUTES

I JUST RECOGNISED THAT YOU DOUCHE.

Anyway Peter Crouch could have scored that its not a big deal.

[yianni]

Guys on a serious note, do not take any notice of what Y2C says on this forum after Australia's win. He, unlike Downunder, Kid Robb, myself and Gooner, is a bandwagon glory-seeking cunt who has no idea about the beautiful game.

Viduka had a blinder I thought. ahahahha @ Hiddink going absolutely awol on the sidelines and shoving some Jap cunts. AHAHAHAHHA @ the Jap cunts getting cleaned up by our boys. Now that we're in Asia I can see Japan being a massive rival

On a final note fuck the ref tonight, the card-happy cunt. I'm not kidding as soon as I heard he was Egyptian I went "oh shit here we go" cos those Arab cunts ALWAYS crucify us. Why the fuck wasn't the ref European? If the Japan goal shouldn't have been awarded then we got our revenge when he denied them a pretty blatent penalty.

[toxic rooster]

I'm guessing they're gonna need a new ad with that cunt heckling Bresciano about Australia never scoring at the world cup :D

[yianni]

...which was filmed at South Melbourne may I add. :cool: :cool:

Kid Robb will back me up on this, for years I've been saying that Australia's biggest problem has been qualifying for the World Cup. Once we're there we can cause a few headaches and compete. In the past we have had some killer results against quality opposition but never managed to make the World Cup. Now we have, the lads have had a good 3 weeks of training together and some good hitouts against Greece, Holland and Liechenstein, plus we have a fucking master of a coach. Hiddink you fucking legend. Make the cunt the PM after the WC, for me he's already achieved enough in Germany!

[toxic rooster]

Well, we've quadrupled our all-time World Cup points tally, that should be enough of a case for PM right there :D. And yes, anything can happen in a tournament with a 3 game group stage; Greece proved this last time round.

Speaking of bandwagon, even my olds stayed up to watch it :D

[packt up]

ROSICKYYYYYYY man that guy is good.

[yianni]

This is why it is the beautiful game. In 10 minutes the whole game is completely turned around. I've said it before and I will say it again FUCK I LOVE FOOTBALL

http://f5.putfile.com/6/16211212684.gif

"WORLD CLARSH STRIKE" ahahahha JUST GO AWOL CRAIG FOSTER!!

Hey Gooner check the photo's forum you twat I have some updates in there for you

[toxic rooster]

You mean the storming of Telstra Stadium :D?

golden stuff that

[Rob]

On a final note fuck the ref tonight, the card-happy cunt. I'm not kidding as soon as I heard he was Egyptian I went "oh shit here we go" cos those Arab cunts ALWAYS crucify us. Why the fuck wasn't the ref European? If the Japan goal shouldn't have been awarded then we got our revenge when he denied them a pretty blatent penalty.

Billion pound tournament and ten pence refs. Makes sense to me. :wtf:

[Loose Cannon]

not looking good here. I don't feel bad though cause it's the Czechs and I want to see them do well. Czech vs Brazil would be a nice little matchup for the next round.

[RoXer]

Yo son, my boy Eddie Johnson is in now. 2 golas right now, im tellin ya

[toxic rooster]

What the hell are the yanks doing? Bruce Arena looks particularly disinterested.

Watching the greatest 10 minutes ever, followed by the septics getting outplayed and they don't even care, sounds like a pretty good night to me.

The only way this could get any better is if Ghana put 9 past Italy.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

If the Czechs are 100% fit and play to their potential they can beat Brazil

[RoXer]

Eddie Johnson has taken 55 shots.

[yianni]

Fuck Bruce Arena. Stupid dickhead saying Australia are nowhere near as good as the US. Well heres news for you buddy your team is fucking crap and only qualifies every time cos FIFA gives your shitty confederation 3.5 places and hands it to you and Mexico on a plate. Fuck I wish we were in the same group as the US so we could give them a footballing lesson as the Czechs just did then.

On a slightly different note the football the Czechs played was outstanding, I'd love to see them take on Brasil

[SammyG]

Wow. That was absolutely terrible.

[ct2k]

The Czechs shitted the Yanks without even trying :-\

[The Miz]

lol that was pathetic

[ct2k]

A lot of woodwork action today! Luca Toni just clattered the bar. He's scarily good at scoring, gotta fancy him for Golden Boot if the Italians make it past the group stages, especially now Jan Koller looks to be out.

[ct2k]

Fuck me Ghana are playing well!

Angola faired pretty well yesterday too, hopefully this is the start of some real competitive teams coming from Africa

[Ogen]

Pirlo my man

[ct2k]

There have been a ridiculous number of amazing goals already. Also a ridiculous number of balls being skied, the new lightweight kit is no doubt partly responsible

[SammyG]

So the States pretty much need to beat BOTH ITALY and Ghana. Yeah, not happening.

[ct2k]

The fact that they gave up 3 goals makes their situation even worse if it comes down to goal difference

[SammyG]

Yeah. I really do believe though that if Reyna's shot woulda went in, boom, whole different ball game.

[Joey Slugs]

WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T JOHNSON AND O'BRIEN START THE GAME????

[SammyG]

Yeah, no shit. I bet Johnson starts over Mcbride against the Italians. And I also bet that the US loses like 3-1 :(

[Flair Wooo]

Shows what balls the fifa rankings are having usa so high dont it.

[RoXer]

Yeah, word. Eddie Johnson had to take about a million shots.

[BCWWF]

I knew that was going to happen. Americans, especially in the ignorant media, were so smug coming into the tournament. It was like a quarter-finals appearance four years ago and a bullshit No. 5 ranking made the US a contender. I remember watching the draw a few months back and they were doing "contender or pretender" and the US was a contender according to somebody.

The Czech's are one of the top teams in Europe and they were my pick to make a run. They have the keys to doing well, a top midfielder, great forwards and a world class goalie. I could see them pulling a Croatia/Turkey.

Speaking of goalies, Kasey Keller is a pretty good goalie, but he does not give the US any real advantage because two of the worlds top goalies are in our group! If Keller was on the same page as Buffon or Cech, he wouldn't be playing for Borussia Mamgladbach or whatever it's called. I like Keller, but he isn't the cream of the crop like he is being made out to be.

Next, the US doesn't have a striker and Landon Donovan is not a forward. McBride is one of my favorite players, and I like him up there, but we don't have the true "striker" forward. Of course they aren't a dime a dozen, which is why guys like Drogba are the top notch in England, but the US needs a guy who knows when to make the run and shoot on the fly. What ever happened to Clint Mathis? He was that guy in 2002 when he played.

Finally, the US defense is just awful. There has been so much hype behind that Gooch guy, but he got carded right off the bat and was timid the rest of the game. He was responsible for at least one of the goals, as was Eddie Pope. The US is going to need to come out with a completely different lineup Saturday.

I just hate how smug the US has gotten because of a fluke World Cup in 2002. We get lucky, beat Portugal but then tie Korea and lose to Poland. Get a lucky draw against Mexico and then have a solid match against Germany. What about France, Italy, England, Argentina and all of the other traditional powers not showing up? Did they just go away? The top US player is solid for Man City, the top Czech player is a superstar for Juventus. The US is still the underdog until Donovan and some others can prove they can play for big clubs. Then there is the presumption that Ghana is an automatic win. What about Morocco?

[BCWWF]

WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T JOHNSON AND O'BRIEN START THE GAME????

O'Brien was injured recently and his fitness was in question, but I agree, if he is capable of playing he must play. He is one of out best players. Also, the loss of Frankie Hejduk and Tony Sanneh hurts really bad right now.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Michael Essien will break Claudio Reyna in half

[Loose Cannon]

Mathis retired. The Czechs didn't even have Baros yesterday too. Sucks that Koller could be out for a while. They need him up front when they play the powerhouses.

[ct2k]

Barros isn't essential for them, well he wasn't before Koller went down anyway

[CSL]

If Ludovic Giuly, who is not even in the French squad, is not a better player than Sylvain Wiltord, then I'm a Dutchman.

<font color=white>Martin O'Neill on the beeb :love: :love: </font>

[Ogen]

Come on you French cunts score

[CSL]

<font color=white>Another big stage, antoher Henry no-show

(I'm tempting fate here. He should now go and score the winner and earn me some Fantasy League points)</font>

[Ogen]

And earn me a 100 quid

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">Hahaha, some Swiss cunt just tried to do a Maradona and punched it wide, what a penis.</font>

[BCWWF]

Although they didn't score, I liked what I saw from Switzerland. They should be moving on now, but I don't see them going on much further than that. Seemed like they had good fans too.

What I couldn't figure out about France is where was Trezeguet? I thought him and Henry were going to be the future after '98, and it seemed like they could have really used him today. I don't even know the guys they started ahead of him, and then they made two subs and still didn't bring him in. I still see France coming out of the group, but not too much further.

A random note, it seems DeMarcus Beasley probably won't start against Italy. For some reason I can see something big happening there, but I will probably just be disappointed again.

[Boondock Saint]

Nice shot from Kaka. LOL, KAKAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[The Miz]

This JP guy or whoever who does the US ESPN2 coverage is mad annoying every time he says "Ronaldinho"

[Rob Ban Fan]

<Font color="#ff6600">Trezeguet was on the bench but didn't get on, cos the manager is a dick.

The BBC commentary team spent the whole game slagging off Big Ron and Adriano, like they seemed to expect them to be tracking back and hassling defenders and working hard to win the ball.

They have obviously not seen Ronaldo or Adriano play before.</font>

[BCWWF]

For the US fans, is anybody else disappointed with the advertisements? I mean in the past we have had some sweet ads, like Brazilian airport and the Nike cage matches in 2002 come to mind, but this year all they have is that Adidas ad with Beckenbauer (don't know how to spell it). It was alright, but they play it every time.

[BCWWF]

Yeah the US announcers kept talking about how Ronaldo wasn't doing much. I don't know, in the years that I have watched Ronaldo, I know he scores a lot of goals but he has never been a player that I think is particularly fun to watch. Have I just not seem him enough or what?

[The Miz]

I like the ad where the Spanish kids pick teams for a pick-up game; Cissé, Riquelme, Beckham and others were in it

[SammyG]

Yeah it is sweet. Then like the kid's mom yells at him cuz he needs to go back home or something and they are pissed .

[SammyG]

Brazil really was not sharp today. Meh they will still end up winning it probably. I was pullin for Croatia :(

[Downunder]

Nah lads I was at South Melbourne Hellas social club with a few other lads enjoying the game. We all lost it in the final 10 minutes - WHAT A FUCKING FINISH! Cahill has the honour of being the first Australian to score in a World Cup. I'm still not sure if it was a foul on Schwartzer for the 0-1, either way it was a very arsey goal to concede. But the lads pressed and pressed and were denied by some solid keeping. Then finally the floodgates opened, I'm just wrapped all of my expectations have already been exceded (score 1 goal and get more than 1 point).

Goal difference of +2 will come in handy cos against Brazil we're gonna cop it.

You guys should have seen some of the text messages Downunder and I were exchanging amongst each other during the first 80 minutes, if you think we're pretty racist on here you would be :| :eek: at some of the shit we were saying about the fucken Gooks. Oh speaking of which, this is my tribute to the cunts. My favourite Japanese player's name features on the second line:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/yianni/Muckoff.jpg

:D

The best was the Jap cunt called Miyamoto - yamoto means "fuck" in Greek. Cunts tonight screaming out "KICK TO 'ME GAMOTO!' " ahahaah gotta love the wogs that support Australia :lol:


:love: :love: :love: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :love: :love: :love:

[BCWWF]

The Miz and SammyG, that is the one i am talking about, but it was running during the Champions League and has gotten old now since they play it on every ad break during World Cup.

[Joey Slugs]

So far while watching as many games as I can of this year's World Cup, I can say this.....

It's almost embarrassing to be an American soccer (or sports in general) fan... we can NEVER be as passionate about ANYTHING as fans around the world are about this sport.

It's a fucking shame.

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

For the US fans, is anybody else disappointed with the advertisements? I mean in the past we have had some sweet ads, like Brazilian airport and the Nike cage matches in 2002 come to mind, but this year all they have is that Adidas ad with Beckenbauer (don't know how to spell it). It was alright, but they play it every time.
That Gatorade commerical would be sick if they didn't play "Take me out to the ball game" in the backround.

The actual concept of the commerical is actaully pretty good for getting people in the US interested in the World Cup tho, since it shows fans in the crowd with signs saying "Go Home Yankee" and shows them in a tiny shoebox of a locker room before a game with the walls shaking.

[packt up]

<font color=white>Another big stage, antoher Henry no-show

<font>

As much as I love the guy I totally agree he didn't turn up again. I don't like this "he doesn't turn up for the big games crap" because he sure as hell has turned up for Arsenal in big games (Real Madrid away anyone?) but I seriously can't remember the last time I saw him play well for France. In fact I'm not sure if I've ever seen him play well for France. It's really bizzare.

US fans don't beat yourselves up too much. Sounds like your media have been hyping you up waaay too much (not dislike the Englands to be honest!) and well you were never going to do anything anyway. Losing to the Czechs is no bad thing really. They would tonk England right now comfortably.

Missed the Brazil match but lol at all this Ronaldo bashing. Talk about jumping on the bandwagon. If anyone disses Adriano they don't know what they are talking about as well. Ronaldo will score at least 4 goals this WC no problem.

LOL at that Martin O'Neill quote Giuly is tits how he isn't in the squad is amazing. Wiltord just looked fucking lazy/bored. France is full of old timers and certainly don't look winning it right now.

Finally - is it just me or is every African side this time really quite good. Even Togo looked pretty fucking solid and fast and that guys goal was class. Really promising for the future though not many will get through their groups unfortunately.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

As much as I love the guy I totally agree he didn't turn up again. I don't like this "he doesn't turn up for the big games crap" because he sure as hell has turned up for Arsenal in big games (Real Madrid away anyone?) but I seriously can't remember the last time I saw him play well for France. In fact I'm not sure if I've ever seen him play well for France. It's really bizzare.

Arsenal are basically built around Henry though and everything they do is tailored to suit him. With France he has to play alongside Trezeguet or have guys like Zidane sitting behind him and not making runs...dunno, it's a theory anyway.

I dunno what the BBC TV commentators were watching because funnily enough all the 5 Live commentators were saying about Adriano was how well he was tracking back, he kept looking over to the coach to check whether he had to. Ronaldo just stayed up front and wandered around about a 20 meter area the whole time he was on.

[Y2C]

lol I'm scared of a fat greek with a beanie who can acutally write on a piece of paper.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Ireland may not have been busy in Germany but the good news is that Eamon Dunphy, Mediawatch's favourite salivating Irish madman and pseudo-philosopher, has been:

On the Czechs' victory over the U.S: "They're lucky they haven't got any oil or they'd be invaded tomorrow."

Excellent :D

[yianni]

lol I'm scared of a fat greek with a beanie who can acutally write on a piece of paper.

Go on cunt just post a photo of yourself telling me to fuck off...just remember you've stacked on a few kilos yourself. Fucking Crown Casino KFC :mad:

[Y2C]

Atleast I can claim that I once was a skinny little shit. :D

[yianni]

In all seriousness I once was too. :(

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Spain looking good before the inevitable choke

[CSL]

I like the ad where the Spanish kids pick teams for a pick-up game; Cissé, Riquelme, Beckham and others were in it

<font color=white>"If you don't give my football back I'm gonna get my Dad on you..."</font>

[Rob Ban Fan]

Yeah the US announcers kept talking about how Ronaldo wasn't doing much. I don't know, in the years that I have watched Ronaldo, I know he scores a lot of goals but he has never been a player that I think is particularly fun to watch. Have I just not seem him enough or what?

<Font color="#ff6600">Adriano and Ronaldo are big fat Brazilian tanks. Ronaldo's at his best when he just runs at people. He doesn't do that so much anymore cos he's getting old and injuries are taking their toll but he needs to be given the ball to his feet around the box so he can run at the defence.

Croatia were playing with 5 men at the back and everyone behind the ball, the only service coming in really was Cafu's crosses and a few long range shots. Ronaldo and Adriano aren't gonna be able to just magically do something if they have no space, thats more what Ronaldinho and Kaka and people do.

I think it was more of a case of the Croats playing well and restricting the strikers, rather than Adriano and Big Ron being lazy/shit/disinterested.</font>

[Joey Slugs]

Udaja sie Polska, Udaja sie!

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Former Wolves legend Sami al-Jaber

[RoXer]

Unbelieveable goal to tie it up in the 93rd minute.

[Joey Slugs]

wow. what a way to pull a point in the group.

[ct2k]

Well i'm holdin my joint second team Poland can pull of a victory over the Krauts later...It's do or die!

[Joey Slugs]

Niech Udawac sie Polska!

[ct2k]

Damn Chicagoans and their slang:roll:

[Joey Slugs]

haha. i wish i spoke Polish. i had to find a lame online translator for "Let's Go Poland!"

[ct2k]

Mine is pretty fuckin limited!

[Flair Wooo]

I hope we get Germany in the second round because we would fucking maul these cunts.

[RoXer]

HEARTBREAKER

[ct2k]

:'(

[Joey Slugs]

oh god oh god oh god oh god.

:'(

Ok... it's not over yet. This is how it has to go.

Germany and Costa Rica blank Equador (CR scoring only 1)
And Poland puts up 3 goals on CR

Then Poland advances. Serious. It could happen.

[Flair Wooo]

Fucking german cunts.

[ct2k]

Yet again Poland have failed to produce. Although they showed promise during brief spells today they just never looked like they were taking it to Germany, Krauts were always in control.

[The Miz]

UGH. Biggest dissapointment ever. What the fuck was Radosław doing when he picked up that red? Our offense was shit anyway and losing a man assured we would have no chances to score the rest of the match.

Boruc though, he was fuckin' awesome. I wanted Kuszczak in goal before the tourney started but Boruc proved me wrong.

Oh well, this is what we get for waiting for the match against the Krauts to turn it on. We played like America against Ecuador.

Ja fucking nienawidzę Niemcy. :mad:

[ct2k]

Alright another Polish person:D

But still :'(

[SammyG]

OYE!

[Boondock Saint]

I heard the Tunisia/Saudi game was good stuff, yes?

[BCWWF]

That Gatorade commerical would be sick if they didn't play "Take me out to the ball game" in the backround.

The actual concept of the commerical is actaully pretty good for getting people in the US interested in the World Cup tho, since it shows fans in the crowd with signs saying "Go Home Yankee" and shows them in a tiny shoebox of a locker room before a game with the walls shaking.

That was a sweet commercial, but they only played it in the weeks leading up to the cup. There were some really good ones before (The Ivory Coast one for example) but not since the cup has been taking place.

Anyway, I only saw the second half of the Germany game today, but that's too bad for Poland. Exciting injury time though, a ball hit the cross bar and then a minute later was the game winner.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

I heard the Tunisia/Saudi game was good stuff, yes?

First half was pretty bad, Saudis were all over the place. Picked up in the 2nd half when Tunisia basically couldn't be arsed and lost the momentum.

[Boondock Saint]

Yah I watched it. It was deece.

[Boondock Saint]

Word on the street is Rooney might make a cameo 2dayyyyy, cuz Walcott could be hurt. And Neville ain't playing. Eriksson says he be "match fit".

Crouch v Lawrence. BATTLE OF THE GIANTS. Will Shaka be back in goal today? I would think so since he was pretty nasty, even if Kelvin Jack is ready.

[Boondock Saint]

Also, I'm rooting for England but wouldn't mind seeing the Socceroos do well either.

[SammyG]

Yay, I get to laugh at Crouch's gayness again today. Although I KINDA want him to score, just so I can laugh at the robot.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

He's said he's not going to do the robot again unless we win the whole thing.

I dunno about Rooney. Fit to play doesn't = match fit, so IMO there's no reason to put him in, especially considering T&T basically kicked the crap out of Sweden.

[Rob]

I'm officially jumping on the Australian bandwagon. Well I'm still tipping Argentina and I have a soft spot for Portugal but if I have to actually cheer for someone, it's our cousins from the south.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">I would bring him on if we have a decent lead with 20 minutes - half an hour to go, instead of bringing on Jermaine Jenas or Stewart Downing or something equally as pointless.</font>

[CSL]

<font color=white>If he is as fit as Eriksson is making out, then he should 100 fuckin' % come on @ some point. But only if he is as fit as Sven's making out</font>

[CSL]

<font color=white>England vs. Germany in the 2nd round anyone?</font>

[Rob]

That would be nice.

[Boondock Saint]

Holy shit @ the save from Terry. :eek:

[BCWWF]

OH MY GOD! I JUST YELLED AND I AM ALONE!

That save by Terry has got to be one of the best plays of this World Cup. Trinidad had a clear goal but Terry stopped it right on the goal line with a diving volley. Wow, that was insane. Pants would have dropped all over England had they scored.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="ff6600">What a load of absolute fucking shite.</font>

[Boondock Saint]

Lampard keeps overshooting shit. God damn it.

[BCWWF]

I have a feeling England will get some random goal in the second half and win 1-0. I hope T&T can move on though, they have some cool players that I remember like Stern John and Dwight Yorke.

[Joey Slugs]

T&T is going to win this match.

[Boondock Saint]

ROONEYYYYYYYYYYYY

[RoXer]

Come on T&T

[RoXer]

Ah fuck

[Rob]

JAMMY BASTARDS

[RoXer]

Double fuck

[Joey Slugs]

DAMN

[Flair Wooo]

Liverpool 2 trinidad and tabago 0 :D wooooooooooooo!

[The Mask]

hahaha fucking hell we're shit :'( owen and lampard should be nowhere near the starting 11. aaron lennon seemed impressive.

[Boondock Saint]

WOOOOOOOOOO :love:

[Joey Slugs]

the only reason England won is because T&T got tried and sloppy so late in the game. i wasn't impressed with England at all. once they go up against one of the top teams in the 2nd round, they are going to get raped.

[Flair Wooo]

Are we fuck! Now we have qualification and the first two games out the way rooney back team startibng to gel we will roar into life!! World cup champions 2006!

[SammyG]

.... Shut up dude. No fucking way. I feel sooooo bad for T&T. Fag Crouch scored. :(

[Boondock Saint]

I agree they didn't play very well today but nonetheless, still wonnnnnnnnn.

[Joey Slugs]

World cup champions 2006!

Brazil? I agree.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

BY FAR THE GREATEST TEAM, THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN

[Flair Wooo]

.... Shut up dude. No fucking way. I feel sooooo bad for T&T. Fag Crouch scored. :(

:mad: :foc: :p Crouch is err err yeah.

[Joey Slugs]

England must be great.... they won the first game without actually scoring a goal. :roll:

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">Trinidad were never gonna win it, England were fucking shit again but that was cos they couldn't pass or get anything going, going forward. And because Trinidad were camped behind the ball, playing on the break.

We were never gonna conceed to them. John Terry is too good to let that happen :cool:</font>

[Ogen]

Ireland may not have been busy in Germany but the good news is that Eamon Dunphy, Mediawatch's favourite salivating Irish madman and pseudo-philosopher, has been:

On the Czechs' victory over the U.S: "They're lucky they haven't got any oil or they'd be invaded tomorrow."

Excellent :D

The Dunphy is a utter legend.

[BCWWF]

I didn't catch the last fourth of the game, but when I left I wouldn't have been surprised to learn that T&T won. They had some really good opportunities, really they had a goal but John Terry had that UNBELIEVABLE stop.

That being said, England did look a bit better today, and to me they look like a team that could succeed in the knockout stage. I don't think they have the forwards to win it, but I wouldn't be surprised if they made it as far as the quarterfinals or even a round further.

[BCWWF]

On another note, just looking at these uniforms of the various teams I realized how quickly you can identify certain teams just by the uniforms.

Examples of unique uniforms:
Red and white checkers: Croatia
Orange: Holland
All yellow: Sweden
Light blue and white stripe: Argentina
Red and white stripes, blue shorts: Paraguay

And then there are the normal ones that are so easily identifyable, examples:
White shorts blue shirt: Italy
Yellow shirt blue shorts: Brazil


But then you have USA. Since about half the countries in western Europe have red-white-blue color schemes, we basically just look like the poor mans England. We've had the same basic scheme as England forever, and that in itself is unamerican.

That's where I ask my question: What happened to these?

http://www.planetworldcup.com/CUPS/1994/wc94_025.jpg

In 1994, the US had these jerseys with the stars on them. Sure, they might not be the most stylish jerseys in this era, but really, neither is Croatia and they have the most identifyable uniforms in international soccer. These old jerseys were a better representation of the United States. About half the teams in the World Cup can have navy, white and red uniforms, but if the US still had stars it would be instantly identifyable.

I personally think those old school uniforms would look way cooler than what we have now and I don't know why they would change to something so bland and boring.

[Rob]

On another note, just looking at these uniforms of the various teams I realized how quickly you can identify certain teams just by the uniforms.

That's the point.

[Rob]

<font color="#ff6600">Trinidad were never gonna win it, England were fucking shit again but that was cos they couldn't pass or get anything going, going forward. And because Trinidad were camped behind the ball, playing on the break.

We were never gonna conceed to them. John Terry is too good to let that happen :cool:</font>

There was nothing wrong with the goal that they got disallowed. Should be daylight between the attacker and the last defender and no way was there.

And Dwight Yorke is the man. 2 man of the match performances now.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">No, I think they changed the rule to that if any part of the attacker is ahead of the play, he's offside, doesn't need to be day light anymore. But I dunno if they've changed it again as a result of buggering about with the offside rule all the time.

</font>

[Rob]

It's still daylight between them.

[BCWWF]

That's the point.

Did you read my post? The US has the most bland jerseys in the cup, which is why...

On another note, just looking at these uniforms of the various teams I realized how quickly you can identify certain teams just by the uniforms.

The US should get uniforms that make them look not like England's ugly little brother.

[Flair Wooo]

You are englands ugly little brother and an annoying one at that. :D

[ct2k]

Steven Gerrard is a legend, nuf said

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">Yeah well, a couple of years back Norway had the exact same shirt as England. Not the same colour, the exact same shirt.</font>

http://photos.football.co.uk/shared/images/photos/Wayne_Rooney.jpg

http://www.soccer-replicas.com/norway/norway2.jpg

<font color="#ff6600">I dunno if someone at Umbro was just really lazy and thought "we'll just move the badge" while designing the Norway kit, or if Umbro had 50,000 unsold, damaged England shirts they couldn't use or whatever, but that is shocking.</font>

[ct2k]

All the sportswear companies have a lot of generic shirt designs which drop in and out of use

[Danny Electric]

I love Lennon, was shouting for him to come on whilst all the inbreds were chanting rooney.

[toxic rooster]

http://www.paragonsports.com/Paragon/images/medium/5-118041__pd.jpg

http://www.sportkuster.com/images/produkte/jersey_juventus_away.jpg

http://www1.jdsports.co.uk/uploads/products/std/4572_27355A.jpg

http://i20.ebayimg.com/02/i/05/1a/c0/50_1_b.JPG


At least Umbro moved their badge...

[RoXer]

How much is "daylight" in feet and inches? You crazy forigners.

[Ogen]

It is literally daylight if theres enough of a gap to see through them then its daylight

[ct2k]

Jesus christ, the Argies look ridiculously good:|

If we play the way we have been and come up against them they'll take us apart

[toxic rooster]

Yeah. Moving the ball around very, very well. That Cambiasso goal was ridiculous.

To anyone who happens to get in Argentina's way; good luck.

[toxic rooster]

Kezman off, now they get to do it against 10.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Dear me

[Funky Fly]

Yeah, holy shit, Serbia/Montenegro got raped.

Netherlands at Ivory Coast up next.

[ct2k]

Would expect the Dutch to win that one comfortably but you never know, i'll be cheering for the Ivory Coast!

[Boondock Saint]

BECKENBAUER?!

[ct2k]

FRANZ!

[BCWWF]

Come on Drogba...2-1 Holland right now, 25 min left

[ct2k]

I hate Drogba with a fiery passion, otherwise COME ON THE COAST!

[BCWWF]

Drogba is the shit. It's going to be the most disappointing when the US loses, but Ivory Coast is my second team and it sucks that they had to end like this. All in all, they played a hell of a two games so far against two great teams. The midfield looked better today, but if they can develop a strong playmaker in the middle they could go far in 2010.

[Rob]

This Mexico vs. Angola match has been the most boring shit I've seen in ages. Thank God Ultimate Fighter is on in 15 minutes.

[BCWWF]

Come on Angola, only injury time left.

BTW, what is all this daylight conversation?

[SammyG]

I will mark out like a muh fucka if Angola scores.

[SammyG]

Meh, 0-0.

[BCWWF]

YES! I love it, Trinidad and Tobago and now Angola. This is what I love about the World Cup.

[The Miz]

lol @ the Angola keeper smothering the ball to the ground after every save

[SammyG]

Well, in about 22 hours, the Usa is prolly getting killed. Eddie Johnson should come out in camo and shit. I just picture Cena's promos when I heard bout what Johnson said.

[LK]

Wow England were able to just beat a bunch of part-time journeyman. Needed to cheat but still they won. Well fucking done.

Still the memory of that wank Clive Tyldsley and Southgate desperately trying to convince themselves that a "draw would be a good result" will amuse me for a while.

Meanwhile Argentina looking awesome. This might just be their year.

[BCWWF]

I am not going to totally count the US out against Italy. Chances are the US won't win, but I'd like to think Arena can muster something up and make the guys at least compete in the match.

[Flair Wooo]

If italy wernt so shit usa would get raped

[Funky Fly]

FW, you don't think the USA's forthcoming raping by Italy is a sure thing?

[The Miz]

Come on Funky, its like a war to the team. We're going to war against those greaseballs. USA USA USA

[yianni]

I'm officially jumping on the Australian bandwagon. Well I'm still tipping Argentina and I have a soft spot for Portugal but if I have to actually cheer for someone, it's our cousins from the south.

:eek: :)

Welcome on the bandwagon, make sure you say hi to Y2C and about 3/4 of Australia when you jump on. Also you should take a book explaining all the rules of football and bookmark the page that explains what offside is so you can show everyone. :y:

[yianni]

What happened to these?

http://www.planetworldcup.com/CUPS/1994/wc94_025.jpg



AAHAHAHHA how about you guys distinguish yourselves from the rest of the world and use your colours in this 'vomit' design the Australian teams used in '93:

http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/images/wyc93pl.jpg

That was the Aussie Youth team for the World Youth Championships in '93 in Australia. AHAHAHAHA @ Craig Moore, mad dog Kevin Muscat, Kimon Taliadoros and Ante Milicic. Fucking pisser of a photo and what a shithouse top. 'Vomit top' indeed! :lol:

[toxic rooster]

TEENAGE MULLET FURY

[yianni]

JUST LOOK AT THE VOMIT STRIP! :nono:

[Rob]

:eek: :)

Welcome on the bandwagon, make sure you say hi to Y2C and about 3/4 of Australia when you jump on. Also you should take a book explaining all the rules of football and bookmark the page that explains what offside is so you can show everyone. :y:

They'd probably forget it 10 minutes after Australia get eliminated so I'll save my time :)

Anyway, whens the next Aussie game?

[yianni]

Against Brasil on Monday morning (our time) Sunday night (European time). We're fucked. :'(

[ct2k]

Yes, yes you are:D

[SammyG]

I hate Cristiano Ronaldo. He is good though. Portugal should be kicking their asses but its 0-0 still.

[toxic rooster]

If we got through, we'd probably get raped by the Czechs.

I'm not sure what to root for here.

[SammyG]

If Ghana manages to tie the Czechs at least, USA's chances get bigger. Won't happen though. EDDIE JOHNSON IS A SOULJA, I really think he is gonna score tonight.

[toxic rooster]

Not gonna happen, Czechs will murder them. Your best bet is to beat Italy tonight and play Ghana who will have already been eliminated for a shot at 2nd spot (and a Round of 16 game against Brazil) and hope to shit that the Czechs can arse a goal past Italy's defence.

[toxic rooster]

Does anyone know what tiebreaker they're using at this World Cup? Because looking at Group D, (Mexico, Portugal, Angola, Iran), it's very possible that 2 teams could finish on 4 points with the same goal difference, having drawn against each other.

Wait, scratch that, Portugal scored against Iran. But Mexico and Angola could still POSSIBLY do it.

[Rob]

Against Brasil on Monday morning (our time) Sunday night (European time). We're fucked. :'(

Shut up you cunt. :D Have a little faith man. They didn't look that good the other day and you are better than Croatia.

Looks like I'm going to the Walkabout in Shepbush Bush tomorrow then.

[toxic rooster]

I think Croatia have a better defence than us, and that if we only lose 1-0 Monday will be declared a national public holiday.

Ah well, it's really a no-loss situation for us. If we get any points off them, it'll be a great sporting achievement. There's no shame at all in a respectable loss, which is what I feel will happen. And even if we lose 6-0, we're playing the current world champs so it's expected. And best of all, we don't need any points from it to stay in the Cup.

The Croatia game is the big one, we'll be playing them for a spot in the Round of 16 to get raped by the Czechs.

[SammyG]

FDHASIFHFAS GHANA SCORES IN THE 2ND MINUTE.

[SammyG]

Ghana is kicking some ass. Hustling, really challenging for the ball, they missed a fucking PERFECT chance for a 2nd goal, shot it right at the keeper. Ghana is winning this shit sdja'fja OMFG shit, a shot JUST went wide for Ghana. G-G-G-G-G-G-HANA UNIIITT.

[BCWWF]

Just turned it on, halftime now but Ghana is still winning..this is huge for the US, although it means Ghana is going to be even that much harder to beat next week. Anyway, the US had an awful first game in the tune-up matches and then came through in the second two, so I'm hoping that can happen today.

[Joey Slugs]

OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

[BCWWF]

That sucks, because if he wasn't tackled he definately would have scored but then the PK went off the bar. I don't remember any sporting event besides this World Cup where I would yell when watching alone.

[Joey Slugs]

CR is lucky that the ball hit the wood... he beat Cech hard on that PK.

[Joey Slugs]

I don't remember any sporting event besides this World Cup where I would yell when watching alone.

:lol: I know what you mean.

[Joey Slugs]

I love Brazil....

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/fifa/gen/xp/20060608/i/3906405585.jpg

[BCWWF]

Jeez, Petr (is that right?) Cech is amazing

[Joey Slugs]

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BCWWF]

GOOOOOOOOAAAAAL GHANA

2-0 in the 82nd minute!

It was inevitable, they were walking through the Czech defense through the whole second half. Not as good news for the US anymore. Isn't this the first African team to win?

[ct2k]

GHAAAAAAAANAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

:love: This is like a regular old FA cup upset, only World Cup:D

[Joey Slugs]

Fuck Italy.... can we beat Ghana???

[BCWWF]

What's been great about this game is that Ghana has remained on the attack after taking the lead, instead of changing their whole team into defenders.

[ct2k]

Btw has anyone noticed how patronising the ITV coverage has been towards the African/Black teams? The other day they talked about the 'brave' Trinidad and Tobago, the 'spirited' Angola and something equally as stomach churning for Togo:n:

[Joey Slugs]

Since I don't know any Ghana fight songs.... I've been dancing around my apartment singing "Ole Ole".

[SammyG]

MARKS THE FUCK OUT FOR GHANA, WOOO!

[Crimson]

Looks like the Czechs underestimated Ghana, they looked like shit. Ghana shoulda won like 4-0, if it weren't for the missed penalty and other opportunities. Let's see if the U.S can at least get a tie.

[RoXer]

MY BOY EDDIE JOHNSON

[RoXer]

...probably won't be starting

[yianni]

I think Croatia have a better defence than us, and that if we only lose 1-0 Monday will be declared a national public holiday.

My arse it will be, who will make that call, little Johnny? The cunt probably heard World Cup and sent a fax to the Wallabies wishing them well. Cunt is just like so many millions of people here who have no idea about football culture. Should have been a national holiday the day after we beat U-r-gay but no instead they're threatening to turn the large off the large screen at Federation Square if the crowd gets too "rowdy" tomorrow night. :| :| :| Really just amazes me. :|

[yianni]

Oh and by the way :eek: :| at the Czechs being beaten 0-2 :|

[RoXer]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

[RoXer]

haha what a scumbag

[RoXer]

Own goal, then that guy throws an elbow. Now all we need is a sniper to take out the whole Italy team and then I'd say things are going our way.

[The Miz]

lmao Zaccardo

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">So much for FIFA saying there wouldn't be a spate of red and yellow cards thanks to those new directives they gave the referees.

Dickheads.</font>

[Tornado]

ANOTHER RED!

10(Ita) vs 9(Usa) now, getting interesting.

[RoXer]

The US commentator guy says this is absolutely terrible refereeing.

[Tornado]

The first red on the Italian player was justified, no excuse for that embow to the face of McBride.
The second on the American player was a judgment call really, it was a nasty looking two footed challange.
As for the third, it was another recklass challange by a player already on a yellow, so also justified I think.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">I didn't think the second one was a red, it wouldn't have been a red in the premiership. It was just a bit of a late challenge really.

Hahahaha lucky boy Buffon, very lucky.</font>

[RoXer]

Why the fuck isnt Eddie Johson playing?

[The Miz]

Worst officiated soccer match I've ever seen

[Supreme Olajuwon]

apparently the ref couldn't work the last World Cup because he was suspended for crappy officiating

quality stuff FIFA

[BCWWF]

I will go as far to say that is the biggest US result ever, moreso than any of the games in 2002. Portugal was a big win, but a fluke, and Mexico in South Korea isn't a giant upset. Tying this Italian team with only nine players in the second half on European soil to stay alive, this game was played much better. At least, it is better than 1998, at best a trip to the next round isn't out of reach at all. They've just got to start finishing.

One question, why didn't the US use its last sub for the last 10 minutes or so?

[The Miz]

That was retarded by Arena. He had to use those subs with only 9 guys. Beasley was the only player playing with any energy and its because he was a sub.

[RoXer]

WORD. Where was EJ?

[BCWWF]

I thought for sure they were going to put him in with 10 minutes left, and the US was still making runs down to the Italian goal at the point. Then they didn't put him in and the US had no possession for the rest of the game. It seems like a replacement for Reyna to play in the defense wouldn't have been a bad move, but it's all good now I guess.

[SammyG]

So now Italy has to beat the Czechs and the USA has to beat Ghana right? In order to get squashed by Brazil?

[BCWWF]

Yep. If that scenario happens:

Italy: 7
USA: 4
Ghaha: 3
Czech: 3

I'm not sure, but I think that is the only way it can work. Of course Czech Republic is in if it wins, but if it ties Italy the best the US can do is tie them in points. If the US and Ghana tie, then Ghana would go on with 4 points.

[SammyG]

BTW. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uVpqHc8NXE&search=referee

[Flair Wooo]

I ,ost a shit load on them czech cunts so i'm not happy!

[Rob Ban Fan]

I ,ost a shit load on them czech cunts so i'm not happy!

<font color="#ff6600">yeah same, well not a shit load exactly, but still. </font>

[Rob]

That was retarded by Arena. He had to use those subs with only 9 guys. Beasley was the only player playing with any energy and its because he was a sub.

You kidding me? He has the worst cardio I've ever seen in football. He was gasping for air after maybe 5 minutes and barely (I didn't see one myself) made proper sprints to chase down balls. Landon Donovan totally showed him.

How his goal never stood however is a fucking mystery.

[BCWWF]

That first red card on Mastroeni was rediculous. It was a foul, yes, a yellow card, likely, but a red card was awful. Then taking Pope out afterwards too. I seriously think the US would have scored another goal if Mastroeni was still in, it seemed inevitable that they would finish one. That is just in response to Tornado.

But now it is going to make it much harder to win in the next game. Pablo is key to our team and was playing really well in that game. Eddie Pope can pretty easily be replaced by John O'Brien, but the center midfield is going to be a questionmark.

[The Outlaw]

LOL yeah, officiating was freaking ridiculous

[Joey Slugs]

That ref was a fucking joke. Can you just imagine if McBride would of stood still on that interference call....

US 2 - 1 Italy

[Funky Fly]

My observations from that match:

1. Landon Donovan is the man (this is from an America-hating Canadian, so shut up)

2. Italy were playing like bastards. Fucking lazy wops. :mad:

3. Worst ref ever. Even with the gayed up new FIFA rules, the guy had no clue what good officiating was.

4. That Johnson guy is retarded. Pretty much ruined a good chance for the US to look good internationally. Glad he didn't play today.

5. Did I mention how shitty the ref was?

[Funky Fly]

Also, Whoooooooooooooooo Ghana.