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World Cup 2010
Well its all coming up soon, few weeks time the domestic leagues will end and the media will go into overdrive hyping it up beyond belief. Right now I'm simply hoping Henry either doesn't get to a play a single minute of it due to injury or instead spectacularly injures himself scoring an own goal to knock France out. NEVER FORGET. Would love to see Messi drag Argentina to glory regardless of Maradona not really having a clue what hes doing. Rooney to cave under the expectations of a nation would be quite comical. Spain look the team to beat with most groups looking like they should be on paper achievable for the favourites. Ivory Coast to pull off something of an upset and send the Portuguese home in the home group stages for my first shock of the tournament. Code:
SPOILER: show Anyway the coding for that thing has taken me ages as I'm a little stupid so this better get some use. If I was a gambling man and I most certainly am despite what I've said above I think I'll be having a few quid on Portugal with 33/1 on offer for themselves. Love staking loads of little bets on the world cup, might have a bit of Tevez 50/1 top scorer each way also. |
What price are England over in Ireland/anywhere else?
Here they're 5/1 (or thereabouts) which is very short considering teams like Italy are around 12/1, and we're pretty shit. |
Also wanna be the first to say
COME ON ENGLANDDDD |
Drogba could be a good shout for top scorer since he's in imperious form and he could easily get about 4 or 5 goals against North Korea alone.
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Oh yeah, hope the entire England squad gets malaria and/or HIV.
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David Villa tends to score more for Spain than Torres.
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I'd love USA to beat England, you know the English would never hear the end of it :lol: It won't be we saved your ass in World War 2 anymore, it'll be we kicked your ass in South Africa for the next few decades.
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I love the World Cup trophy, really looks like you could twat someone with it and they'd be fucked.
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We've been embarrassed by the US before, back when it was MUCH more unlikely, so it wouldn't be that big of a deal. :-\ |
England V Slovenia on my birthday. Gonna be one hell of a piss up that day.
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Unless football/sports prices don't vary? If that's the case I'm sure you'd find someone on BetFair who'd be offering much more than 6/1 for an England win. |
Let's go USA and Netherlands and kinda Brazil
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Hoping to see something special from the U.S. Not expecting them to win the whole thing, but I am expecting them to go far. They've got an excellent squad this time around.
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I love how the US has guys like Carlos Bocanegra and Jose Francisco Torres
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America could win 5 World Cups, we're still never letting World War II go.
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If England don't take Darren Bent, I mutiny to New Zealand.
Nah, just kindding, NZ are in the same group as Italy and I'll never hear the end of it if I support a random team against Italy :( |
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Realistically should be England and USA to go through, and if that was to happen, it'd be likely that one of us would face Germany in the second round.
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For some reason I have always supported Holland and Nigeria when it comes to the World Cup. To hell with England.
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When the draw was made I felt USA might have trouble with Slovenia. It will be a tough, tough game. Slovenia are a cynical, skillful set of bastards and fiercely proud. I love the World Cup because of games like that. Very, very interesting. Algeria too will not roll over.
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I love watching the World Cup. I don't really root for any team though since Canada is the worst soccer/football nation in the world
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Will be rooting for USA, Brazil, and Portugal.
If everything goes correctly the Brazil-Portugal group match is going to be worth a :drool: based on how good their friendly matches are against each other (except the last one which ended in a Brazilian beat-down of 6-2). |
Boo France, boo Germany, boo North Korea, and when did Serbia/Montenegro drop Montenegro.
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I filled out a mock World Cup on ESPN.com I believe, and there are some pretty intriguing matches that cold come. What I did (obviously biased) had the U.S. finishing second in the group and then getting a fairly easy round of 16 draw. Will be interesting.
But like ECG said, it's too easy to look at these groups by two top teams. In reality, most World Cup groups have one great team and three good teams that aren't separated by much. Just hope the US doesn't get caught up in their own hype. I'm looking forward to Group A though. Will South Africa get out of their group? If so, who fails, France or Mexico? Lastly, I fully expect the USA-England game to be the most hyped soccer game in US history to this point. It's a Saturday day game here, so everybody can watch it. Plus, the English national team is probably the most popular team in this country. |
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Brazil is because WC '94 was the 1st World Cup I ever watched on tv and liked how well they played and then learned how rich their soccer history is. USA is because I'm American and it would be nice to generate something similar to WC 2002 since it would both help the MLS popularity and soccer's status here. |
I think my underwear would be damp with precum if events can come together so Henry manages to score an own goal to put France out.
Not a hope of a easy second round game for the USA BCWWF, Serbia had a good qualifying campaign but Germany will run over that group. |
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Ray Houghton scores my favourite goal of all time in the same game that Paul McGrath cemented him place as my favourite player of all time by producing the best 90 minutes of football in football history and turned me into an Aston Villa fan. The single greatest football game I'll ever see I'm sure and thats almost a bit depressing given I was 8 at the time. Whats almost better is if I was 5 years older I'm sure Houghtons other famous goal would be my favourite instead, what a hero. OH AH PAUL MCGRATH And because I wish to wax lyrically about him some more for those who don't know Paul McGrath finished his career with basically no cartilage left in his knees, he used to spend all week just doing weights in the gym with no football training at all as his body wasn't up to it then spend 90 minutes on a Saturday man marking an entire attack without moving at all by his pure positional brilliance. |
Ray Houghton = handball
I remember watching that goal live, was about 9 years old. I really can't wait, managed to book the first week and a half of the tournament off work so I'll be able to watch a few games and not have to listen to all the 'new' football fans at work. I'm gonna be cheeky and put a fiver on Brazil not getting out of there group, and England to lose to Germany in the second round. |
World Cup 2010 - Professor proves Germany will win World Cup
Eurosport - <ABBR class="date updated" title=2010-04-21T16:05:00+00:00>Wed, 21 Apr 17:05:00 2010</ABBR> <FORM class=buzz-up method=post action=http://uk.buzz.yahoo.com/vote/> A university professor says he has proved that Germany will win the 2010 World Cup after devising a mathematical formula that calculates the winner. </FORM>http://d.yimg.com/i//ng/sp/eurosport...36b1323677.jpg More Stories
Prof Metin Tolan, a German physics lecturer, has written a formula based on trigonometry which analyses results from previous World Cup finals in order to predict the winner of this summer's tournament. Germany have won the World Cup on three occasions, in 1954, 1974, and 1990 with an average finishing place of 3.7, and Prof Tolan says his formula proves without any doubt that his home country will prevail in South Africa. "It is very simple, all my calculations prove this," he told German magazine "Zeit Wissen". "The last time we won the World Cup was back in 1990 and there have been four tournaments since," explained Tolan. "The average finishing place of the Germany team is 3.7 and the German team wins the title every fourth or fifth World Cup. "Nobody can beat us this year and you can already put the champagne on ice." Prof Tolan is clearly undeterred from his previous failed formulas, after he predicted that Germany would win the last World Cup which they hosted, as Jurgen Klinsmann's side were defeated by eventual victors Italy in the semi-finals. "My formula gave the winner for the following World Cup, this is why it works this time for sure," Tolan explained. The Professor's equations should also help England, who crashed out of the last World Cup after being defeated on penalties by Portugal, as he has a theory for shoot-outs too. "The weakest kicker should take the first penalty, then the second-weakest and so on," he said. "Then you have the greatest chance of scoring as many goals as possible." Germany face Australia, Serbia and Ghana in Group D in the first stage of this summer's finals and could face England as early as the second round. |
...and the pyramid theory said we were going to win the 1998 World Cup. Football isn't played on paper. Nice try, Herr Tolan.
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It would be pretty easy to predict a winner for the cup since its always between the Big 4 (Germany, Italy, Brazil, Argentina) as the favorites and then a random team who enters the tournament hot (2010 = Spain) and France depending on their momentum.
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I was thinking about a cheeky little bet on Robben top scorer.
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Had my first 'shit, the World Cup starts in like a month :D' moment earlier
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I've got the game for the 360, got pretty excited playing it.
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But yeah pretty much every American does this except for the Mexican immigrants who never root for America at all. |
If France somehow won the world cup I'd never forgive the world for the injustice of it all, reckon I'd probably become a super villain living in an underground lair and hold the world hostage to make them all wipe France off the face of the earth.
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As an American I root for America, as the grandson of Sweish Immigrants I root for Sweden in everything (though that doesnt do me much good this year) and I am pulling The Ivory Coast as I think Drogba is fucking amazing. |
Don't know all sounds bizzare, I mean Ireland are shit and won't ever win a world cup ( USA certainly going to win one at some point you'd think ) but I'd not have a "second" team going into a tournament we're in.
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I've supported Netherlands ever since I played some soccer game on Super Nintendo in like 1995 and always picked Netherlands because their jerseys are all orange. Fucking love them. And always loved watching Ronaldo and Brazil "as a kid."
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That sounds silly to me. You're American and the United States are in the World Cup so I don't see why you have to have 2 or 3 countries to "support". The World Cup is the ultimate symbol of patriotism. Even if you only take an interest every four years, you should stand by your nation. Wales haven't qualified in over 50 years, and fuck knows if they even will in my lifetime, so you don't know how lucky you are to have your country to follow in the tournament almost every time.
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Mix this huge diversity with the fact of the "youth" of pro-level soccer in the U.S. (USL was too short and a long time ago), it makes sense for someone to be a fan of their family's "home" country and the US. There was soccer before the 1970s but mostly amateur leagues and teams while the USL was the first big pro-league to get attention and MLS is the current generation pro-league for most USA fans. |
I dunno, rooting for multiple teams on different levels is an american thing I guess.
Most people have "their" team. They also have other players and shit they like. Ultimately, I think we all want the US to win. But should they get eliminated, we are still going to watch those other teams and players we like. Its not like I am going to be wearing a Dogba jersey with my face painted blue and yellow and an American flag. they are not all on the same level. The IF My team doesnt win, I dont want x team to win, but I do want X team to win stance is common ground/ |
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Yeah when England weren't in the Euros 2 years ago I didn't support another team, I still watched every game for the joy of watching some great football.
Most people I know, being from Liverpool and having a strong spanish influence in our team, supported Spain and I was fine with that, but I still didn't exactly support anybody. Although in the end I was happy to see Reina, Torres, Alonso etc doing well and winning. |
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Rooting is way more fun.
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But my country is not in the tournament. Yeah it's fun to get behind an underdog when there's an upset on the cards but I won't following or supporting any other nation.
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well... when in Rome
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I know a lot of my generation has parents, grandparents or certainly great grandparents that came over from Europe and a lot of people celebrate thier heritage here. And I am from NY right outside NYC, so pretty much every kid I grew up with had someone in thier family from Europe. |
Keep in mind, rooting for multiple teams may not be the best thing, but it's an improvement over the apathy most Americans feel about the world cup. Ask the average American how the USA will do in the world cup, they'll reply "What the hell is the world cup?"
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I don't understand what's wrong with rooting for multiple teams. It's not as if we'd ever root against america. If any of these second or third picks go up against U.S., we will be rooting for U.S. I mean, it's not as if we paint our faces, buy jerseys, and go nuts for these other teams, like we do for the U.S.
Do you just not watch the world cup at all when your team is out? It doesn't seem as fun to watch the world cup just to watch it, after your team gets knocked out. It's always more fun when you have someone to root for. If they win, it won't be even close to the same as your home country winning, because you don't have that emotional investment in the team, but it still feels good. |
Yea I usually root for USA/Mexico first. Then any team from North/South america next. So I usually end up rooting for Brazil in the end.
But I only watch soccer when the World cup rolls around and I think it's pretty fun and entertaining. So to each his own..there's no rules to what number of teams one can root for. |
Darren Bent made England's provisional 30, so I'm still in with a shot of supporting England.
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Charlie Davies didn't make the US roster. :(
Sucks for both him and the team. |
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Because Steelers fans are douchebags and should all die horrible deaths.
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Local Chicago news team :$
http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_spor...yfhIDDyHZ_5aQ8 |
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Who didn't bother to check a map before putting that image up. |
I'm looking forward to the atmosphere
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Just picked up my US away jersey. It's pretty nice.
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I'm so god damn conflicted. Was totally gonna be "patriotic and root for USA" but Algeria is in the same fucking group and I know they wont get that far but still conflicted shit
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Are you from Algeria?
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Born in america. Grandmother was Algerian so technically we have "Algerian blood". But to be honest I'd feel bad not rooting for the "Arab team". Even though I know they wont last.
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Almost time to go, fucking love the world cup. Have my bets picked out and shall be placing them in the morning. Work sweepstake everyone gets 2 teams one from the top 16 one from the bottom and both teams performance added together via some convuluted points system. Pulled out Brazil and Aussies so thats good.
Holland to reach the final, Portugal out in the group stage. Spain winners. All very exciting stuff. Mon football. |
I'm rooting for Argentina. :cool:
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COME ON NEW ZEALAND
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http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-c...cc=5901?ver=us
:rofl: Brazilian refs learning swear words in English so they can figure out what Rooney and others will be yelling at them for the England-USA match. |
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Wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't true since ESPN/Disney only bought ownership of Soccernet and don't really control most of the European news from the website which explains why its mostly EPL/England articles for news.
Wouldn't be the 1st time they posted "false" articles as well since its happened before. |
Those horns are terrible! Jesus
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I seem to be the only person who doesn't mind them. :-\ Rather have this sound than the silence you get in most English grounds week in week out.
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Enjoying this so far, those horns are alright imo.
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<font color="#ff6600">No more annoying than the bell and bugle I have to put up with at Portsmouth games.</font>
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South Africa's had a few good chances
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Dogslag horns fuck off.
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I've had to mute it with those fucking horns.
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love the horns.. come on.
Nice goal by S Africa. Perfect shot. |
Who's playing
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The horns are horrible. When I used to go to Wales games it was full of kids and their horns for 90 minutes. Awful atmosphere.
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South Africa vs Mexico. 1-1.
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Pretty good game tbf. If Mexico would actually play a final ball they would've romped it, but SA came back into it and were alright 2nd half, albeit Mexico just throw everyone forward. Doubt they'll look as good against France or Uruguay.
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Great opening game, dont think uruguay v france will be as good but ill watch regardless.
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Missed the opener, lovely SA goal though. Gonna watch U R Gay and the Frogs tonight with a beer:y:
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Uruguay :nono:
France :nono: :nono: :nono: |
Yeah god Uruguay is super boring and France did nothing until Henry came in. And even then there wasn't much of a threat.
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bad match
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Ah well, not to worry, Argentina tomorrow, will probably run rings around what is in truth not that good a Nigeria side. Messi, Tevez, Aguero, Higuain, Milito, Di Maria...well they won't all play but what the hell :drool:
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Uruguay France is why Americans hate Soccer
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