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#801 |
Tîm Defaid
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Beating red hot Portugal twice at their own tournament shows they were for real that year in my book.
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#802 |
Former TPWW Royalty
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Since Domenech is now out of a job coaching France, I guess he can go back being a career villain.
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#803 |
Over Like Rover
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Red hot? They were shit in the opening game of the tournament (against Greece), had things go their way against England (Rooney injury, disallowed goal, pens) and didn't play too well in the final (but still should have scored)
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#804 |
Over Like Rover
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I honestly can't believe he was still the manager, he should have gone after the Euros (and nearly did). The french FA deserved everything that happened to them at the World Cup after leaving him in charge (wasn't specifically his fault but he's proven that he wasn't really capable of running that team)
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#805 |
Tîm Defaid
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Well yes. They were the host nation, one of the favourites to win it going in, and got to the final. Don't see your argument.
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#806 |
Over Like Rover
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'Red hot' implies they were playing something akin to Holland in 1974 (or even the Czechs in that tournament) Which they were not. They were decent. No better than the other 5-6 favourites for the tournament.
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#807 |
Tîm Defaid
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Hot enough to make it all the way to the final ahead of all the other 'favourites', where they lost to Greece, for the second time. And that's luck?
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#808 |
Over Like Rover
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I didn't say Portugal didn't play well, my problem was with 'red hot'. Which I figured you'd have worked out from my first sentence. And yes, for Greece, it was a lot of luck. An anomoly. Only thing that's come close was Denmark in 1992 and then there were only 8 teams, they had a couple of legit quality players, a decent supporting cast and Peter Schmeichel. If they replayed Euro 2004, I believe 99 times out of 100 Greece don't win it.
And I bought it up to point out the correlation between how they play now and how they played when they had their only real success (aka the same). Not go back and forth about the specifics of the tournament. |
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#809 |
Over Like Rover
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And I'd once again like to point out my love for the Argies away shirt. It's beautiful.
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#810 |
Tîm Defaid
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Whatever, I don't care about that. I just had a problem with you calling a tournament winner 'lucky'. One game maybe. Hell, you could even possibly stretch to two. But sorry, nobody wins a tournament on luck. That's all I was saying.
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#811 |
Over Like Rover
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Except for Greece in 2004.
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#812 |
▒▓▀▄WINNER▄▀▓▒
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lol @ French boss not shaky hands with Parreira
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#813 |
The People's Member
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I had a good feeling about South Korea coming into the World Cup, but I was also in the camp that was overly optimistic about the African contingent and thought South Korea would finish third behind Nigeria. While it's disappointing to see Africa pretty much fall flat here — Ghana is the only team that could have a chance to do anything, but even getting to the quarters at this point is a long shot — it is still cool to see teams like Korea and Uruguay showing well. I'm guessing Africa will make a big improvement in 2014 though.
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#814 |
Over Like Rover
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Yeah, I'd have thought at least one of the african teams will be 'competing' in the next 6-10 years.
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#815 |
Over Like Rover
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England are gonna be wearing all-red for the game. Different.
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#816 |
King of Love and Piss
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AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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#817 |
VG + Q&A FORUM REPRESENT
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#818 |
FOC
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I thought Greece played very well and were unlucky not to hold on for the draw - if only Samaras' shot had gone in...regardless a draw wouldn't have been enough anyway and like I said earlier the South Korea 2-0 loss in the first game was what really fucked us. What I hope now is that due to some of the older farts retiring Otto (or whoever replaces him) starts playing the younger players who are more attack minded and as a result build a more attacking team in time for Euro 2012 qualifiers. Say what you want about Greece but Otto could only make tactics that played to the team's strengths, which was largely defensive minded. Of course, alot of luck needed to go our way but the history books will say Greece 2004 European champions. A lot of luck also needed to go our way this morning (or last night for most of you guys) and it didn't, that's football. Seriously though, I just wanted a goal and/or a point from this World Cup for Greece, after the debacle of USA '94 and as a result I'm satisfied. Hopefully next time we can qualify with a more attacking side and try and get out of the group stages.
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#819 |
FOC
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Also, LOL at these guys. How freaky that they did this the night before the Portugal North Korea game and got the score right - except in reverse of course
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#820 |
King of Love and Piss
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Hey guys. When's Tim Howard gunna do this?
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#821 |
I'm all there is
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AHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT THE FUCK
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#822 |
I'm all there is
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BULLSHIT
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#823 |
Temporary
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Was that a bad call?
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#824 |
BAY BAY
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
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#825 |
BAY BAY
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Hopefully Algeria hold you lot, or at least you don't score as many as us. Don't fancy Germany next.
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#826 |
I'm all there is
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had a perfect chance to go up 1-0. fucking skied it over the goal
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#827 |
RIP SABU
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#828 |
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Score America ffs get these lot going against england
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#829 |
RIP SABU
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Yeah, we'd've been up 1-0 at halftime if the stupid-ass assistant to the ref had opened his eyes and told the ref that the goal should count because nobody was offside. Oh, well them's the breaks. Here's to a better 2nd half for USA.
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#830 |
I'm all there is
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no, not the offsides call. I believe it was Altidore that had an open shot and lifted it 50 ft over the goal
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#831 |
I'm all there is
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omg, again with a chance. COME ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
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#832 |
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US has missed 4-5 open nets. I can't believe it.
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#833 |
LUV CABBAGE/H8 JEWS
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For quite some time have I been trying to figure out who BigDaddyCool reminds me of.
And now I know. Wayne fuckin' Rooney. |
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#834 |
I'm all there is
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we got nothing but ourselves to blame if we miss out on the next round.
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#835 |
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We should be up at least 2-0 right now
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#836 |
I'm all there is
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another miss
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#837 |
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This is frustrating
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#838 |
Temporary
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Algeria is literally trying to kill The U.S right now.
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#839 |
One Of A Kind
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jesus fucking christ
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#840 |
History's Greatest, Mr. E
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Its all over
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