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Rt Hon Ed Balls MP
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Scored a fantastic goal and won the group though.
I think England will fare better against teams that actually want to play a bit, they were a lot better against Sweden because Sweden didn't have everyone behind the ball, camped in their own penalty area. The same goes for all the big teams, like Brazil who "haven't performed" yet. Once they get into the knockout rounds and face teams that aren't really set up to defend and then hit them on the break, they'll perform better cos the quality players will have more space and time on the ball in the final third. Players like Joe Cole/Ronaldinho will have time to find a pass and players like Rooney/Ronaldo will have space to make a run and get a shot away, without having to try and get past 11 Trinidadians/Croats standing on the goal line. |
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England are shit. Forget any World Cup. Tell Erikkson to sling his hook now and start the rebuilding.
See Frank Lampard played his usual game today - A 25 yard shot and then went missing for 30 minutes. And this arguing is the reason I stay clear of the casual forum so leave it there please guys. |
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How come one dude's shot from like 5 ft out went 100 ft in the air? It was crazy off target.
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I have been saying that about Lampard for ages, especially when anyone comes out with bollocks about him being the best midfielder in Europe. He's not even the best midfielder in the England team.
Yes he scores fuck loads of Chelsea cos he NEVER has to track back cos Makelele is defending for him, so he can sit on the 18 yard line and have about 10 shots, 1 of which normally takes a deflection and goes in. It mystifies me why people still give him so much space there. But some how he still manages to score a stupid amount for a midfielder, so fair play. |
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Lampard scores a lot from free kicks and penalties too though. He's got nothing on Gerrard in ANY department
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Lampard has been fucking shite for England this entire tournament. Even Hargreaves played better than him.
OWENNNNNNNNN get for Newcastle son you little legend.
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Mexico/Argentina is pretty big around here...should be a good game for the 1st 20 minutes, till Argentina gets their 3rd goal then it'll be over by the half.
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YES...Graham Poll is the referee for the Australia-Croatia game. I would gladly take ANY English referee that knows most of our players, than some fucked up Egyptian cunt or a Nazi-style German arsehole. That bald English cunt Mike Riley refereed the Australia-Greece game and while he was useless at least he made shit calls for both sides. The Egyptian and German refs so far in Oz's games have made bullshit calls against Australia. Whilst the results against Japan and Brasil haven't been affected by ref decisions, the game tomorrow against Croatia may be.
Anyway good news that we have a Pom doing the game for us. Who knows what the result will be, probably a draw but you never know. The Croats are going to be fired up though. |
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You're right, the ethnics will be fucking baying for this game. Especially if they lose, there's gonna be a riot.
I'm not setting foot outside this house till it's over. |
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hjahashahahha MELBOURNE BOXHEAD CROOOOO-AAAAAA-TZIIIIIII-A FARKEN!!!!
http://media.theage.com.au/?rid=19861&sy=age&source=theage.com.au%2F&t=388L72&ie=1&player=wm7&rate=383&flash=1 To think they've gone from killing us with Viduka in their team to getting pumped 7-0 by us last week...
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Point taken about the Greeks, I don't think it would have been so smooth if we'd knocked them out of the World Cup, mind you. I know some of the Cros up here. The fuckwit kind, as well.
I've played with and against a lot of them, and a few wanted me to go watch the game with them tonight. As I said, they'll be baying tonight and fully supporting Croatia. And not going to be happy if Australia knocks them out. And when I say that, I mean they'll be really UNhappy. I don't wanna be anywhere fucking near them, or the pub they'll be at tonight. |
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Look I've gone to fiery games between South and the Knights and gone to the pubs with guys like them. I've travelled to their ground with Rob a few times, fucking intimidating as all hell but it's fine. Big fucken deal they get fired up you just ignore them. You mind your own business and they do the same. Real football fans - both Aussies and Croats - know this but the Marios and Rednecks on both sides will be the wankers starting trouble (if any occurs of course). These cunts should all be shot immediately.
Anyway hopefully if there ARE brawls then both Marios and rednecks smash each other up and then the cops come in with the batons and beat the shit out of all of them. Let the football do the talking not the bullshit off the field! And I can't wait for the media to have a field day tomorrow focussing on events off the pitch rather than those on it (even if there's no trouble)
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I forgot to add - this country would probably have to be one of very few in the world where 2 different sets of supporters can (most of the time) watch a full-on World Cup game for competition points and get along with no trouble. There were great scenes with the Greeks in the friendly, then the Japs, then the Brasilians, hopefully the Croats are respectful too. I know the vast majority will definately be, let's hope the 5% of fuckwits they have also behave.
The Croats should take a leaf out of the Greeks' book. Out of 95,000 people at that friendly I would say 30,000 were supporting Greece passionately, but after the game clapped off the Aussie team and wished them luck in Germany. If the Croats get knocked out tonight their supporters here should all do the same! |
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Today is the most important day in the history of US Soccer. I might need to get drunk.
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That wouldn't be too hard, John. Most of the gook fans don't even speak the language and most of the Brazilian fans are bloody Aussies in disguise anyway.
As if any of them would start anything. |
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come on boys
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You're last at this stage
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FRICK
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Yeah.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qLhVgAnp3M
Are Roy and HG doing something I'm unaware of regarding the World Cup? |
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Just like it's OK to have an AUSTRALIAN national league with a team from fucking New Zealand in it, and kick out 2 clubs that happen to have a Greek and Croatian-backed background, that have both produced so many Socceroos and have contributed so much to the make-up of Australian football that it's not funny. Always those bloody Balkans hey!
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Italy winning 2-0 and will win the group. If we progress to the next round we're playing them.
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Rt Hon Ed Balls MP
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ROFL Gattuso choking Lippi when they scored.
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SUCH FUCKNG BULLSHIT. THE REFS KILL THE MATCH AGAINST ITALY AND NOW THIS SHIT.
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See you in 4 years.
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I'm sorry you feel that way, but good job taking what I said completely the wrong way. We both know that Croatia are the only ones we've played who have anything resembling passionate support over here.
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You got Merk, right?
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GHANAAAAAAAAAA
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Ghana
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As far as Italy go, well Camoranesi and Totti were particularly disappointing, Camoranesi wasted every ball he got, Totti wasted some great chances. Cannavaro was solid as usual, we could do with a guy like him in our fuckin defence!
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I just died when at the exact same time I read Joey Slug's post attacking the ref for the US game and I check fifa.com for the USA final result and it has Merk as their ref. NOW YOU KNOW WHAT AUSTRALIA HAD TO PUT UP WITH IN THE BRASIL GAME
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