World Cup 2006 - Page 26

**Evil Vito** · 07-01-2006, 02:48 PM

Ricardo was insane

**Jesus Shuttlesworth** · 07-01-2006, 02:49 PM

lol Beckham subbed himself out and couldnt take part in the shoot out...what a bitch

**The Miz** · 07-01-2006, 02:52 PM

Becs, had you already seen a picture of Posh and knocked one out? Respek

**Rob Ban Fan** · 07-01-2006, 02:53 PM

Rooney is a fucking idiot, but Ronaldo can fuck right off too, little twat.

Also, fair play to Rob Harvey who called it before the tournament that Lampard wouldn't score a goal.

**Jesus Shuttlesworth** · 07-01-2006, 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Miz

Becs, had you already seen a picture of Posh and knocked one out? Respek

Ali G: Has you ever interviewed Shakespeares?

James Lipton: William Shakespeare?

Ali G: No doubt.

**The Miz** · 07-01-2006, 03:01 PM

Wots that got to do wif da youf in Asia

**NoJabbaNoBogRoll** · 07-01-2006, 03:05 PM

At least one paper will go with the headline 'ROO IDIOT' with a picture of the groin attack, and a picture of Rooney's angry ugly mug next to it.

Our players are just technically pathetic, and never look confident with penalties. Other countries know how the find the corner most of the time, plus they don't have a goalie who is unable to reach the corners due to his pie habit.

**Mr. Monday Morning** · 07-01-2006, 03:17 PM

I almost wish we had got through since if we had been missing Terry, Rooney, Beckham and Owen for the semi, some people's ridiculous expectations might have been lowered ever so slightly.

Ah well, at least we're not bitching like the Aussies

**Rob** · 07-01-2006, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Monday Morning

Hargreaves was fucking IMMENSE, he deserves all the credit in the world.

Lampard can fuck off.

Oh, and the Portuguese are diving cheating scum etc etc. But they're scum who are good at penalties

Oh come on. Aside from Maniche, they didn't dive. Dickheads like Alan Shearer and Alan Hansen can deflect the blame to Cristiano Ronaldo all they like but he did nothing wrong. If I'm playing a match and someone stamps on my team mates nuts then I'd go to the referee too. Rooney only has himself to blame.

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Originally Posted by Rob Ban Fan

Rooney is a fucking idiot, but Ronaldo can fuck right off too, little twat.

Also, fair play to Rob Harvey who called it before the tournament that Lampard wouldn't score a goal.

I'm never wrong.

**Mr. Monday Morning** · 07-01-2006, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob

Oh come on. Aside from Maniche, they didn't dive. Dickheads like Alan Shearer and Alan Hansen can deflect the blame to Cristiano Ronaldo all they like but he did nothing wrong. If I'm playing a match and someone stamps on my team mates nuts then I'd go to the referee too. Rooney only has himself to blame.

It was half in jest, but Ronaldo was caught on camera clearly diving with zero contact at least twice.

But that wouldn't have scored a fucking penalty for us, so in the end it doesn't matter.

**Rob** · 07-01-2006, 03:46 PM

I was saying it off and on before the tournament...

Erikkson is your Berti Vogts. His tactics are non existant. In 5 years, he hasn't built a team. The FA gave him more support than they have any other manager and he blew it. England have been SHITE for 5 years. They have been living off one result against Germany who ended up getting to the World Cup final anyway so it made zero difference. His attiutde towards friendlies was the shits and his squad for this championship was totally wrong. Owen and Rooney were both hurt going in and if you are picking them, you need 5 strikers. I said for ages that Darren Bent might be shit but you have to try him in build up matches to find out and they didn't. Picking Theo Walcott was insane but if he at least played him, he could have said he lives and dies by his decisions. In truth, he fucking bottled it.

As for the players, I wouldn't blame them too much other than the fact that absolutely none of them stepped up to the ocassion with the very, very possible exception of Gary Neville when he actually played and Aaron Lennon wasn't too bad. Extremely mediocre performances by everyone.

**BCWWF** · 07-01-2006, 03:49 PM

I don't know what Beckhams deal was, but he didn't look fit to play on that team. He had zero impact on the game to that point. Also, not like it really mattered, but why did they take Lennon out at the end? Even though it wouldn't have really affected anything, he was playing really well.

But yeah, when Beckham, Joe Cole and Lampard don't show up, you're going to have some trouble. That missed shot by Rooney, where he completely whiffed on the ball, was pretty awful too.

Also, I knew as soon as it started that Robinson wouldn't win the shootout. He has no presence in the net compared to Lehman yesterday. And he obviously doesn't have the trick down for reading the shot. Saying that the goalie just guesses which way to dive and goes for it is kind of inaccurate, but that is what he was doing. He looked awful.

From watching this tournament, I think the two keys of winning are good strikers and good goalies. England has been good in the midfield and defense but lacked at the others for a while now. Look at Germany though, of course they were going to be good but before the World Cup I wouldn't have had them doing this well. I give the credit to Klose, who has been amazing in this World Cup. Rooney is good, but I've never stayed impressed with Owen after 1998 and Peter Crouch is just laughable.

It will be interesting to see where they go with a new coach now though, I don't think Sven will be missed too much.

**Rob** · 07-01-2006, 03:58 PM

The difference with Sven and Steve McClaren is that McClaren would have taken 5 strikers and even if his own tactics were shit, if you needed goals, he'd gamble and put 5 guys up front. That's what you should want.

**Mr. Monday Morning** · 07-01-2006, 03:58 PM

Considering the new coach is Sven's #2 I doubt much is going to change

-edit- fuck's sake Harvey

I remain skeptical of McClaren. If he shows he has some balls and drops/subs the big names when they're obviously not playing well, then we'll see.

**Team Sheep** · 07-01-2006, 04:17 PM

Haha Ronaldo, legend. That "friendly" nudge he gave Rooney before the game, and his wink after Rooney saw red.

**Rob** · 07-01-2006, 04:18 PM

Harvey rules!

**Rob** · 07-01-2006, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Team Sheep

Haha Ronaldo, legend. That "friendly" nudge he gave Rooney before the game, and his wink after Rooney saw red.

We actually don't know if that was after the red card. They just said it was. Could be a nice BBC editing job.

**Team Sheep** · 07-01-2006, 04:20 PM

Too Shay.

**Rob** · 07-01-2006, 04:23 PM

Alan Shearer is soooo tough too. Shame he ran from Roy Keane like a bitch.

**Mr. Monday Morning** · 07-01-2006, 05:06 PM

He kicked Neil Lennon's face in, that's good enough for me

**Loose Cannon** · 07-01-2006, 05:13 PM

HENRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

**The Miz** · 07-01-2006, 06:37 PM

Only European teams left GAY

**Downunder** · 07-01-2006, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Monday Morning

I almost wish we had got through since if we had been missing Terry, Rooney, Beckham and Owen for the semi, some people's ridiculous expectations might have been lowered ever so slightly.

Ah well, at least we're not bitching like the Aussies

That's because you went out because you're terrible, not because of a diving cunt and a pissweak ref.

But I'm over it.

BTW thank you very fucking much England, I stayed up for fuck all and now I'm pissed off again. (not half as much as my wife)

**Rob** · 07-01-2006, 09:51 PM

Shouldn't have stayed up then.

I could have told you what was gonna happen if you asked before. Actually, I said on here 2 weeks ago it was over for England at the quater finals.

As stated earlier today, I'm never wrong

**Jesus Shuttlesworth** · 07-02-2006, 12:54 AM

Some dude called into a local sports radio station I was listening to earlier today and said "If its France vs Germany in the final do you think France will surrender?"

Prob been said 393935398539 times but that was the first time I heard it and thought it was pretty funny. I kinda wanted to see Brazil go all the way, I like their style. Also, Brazilians come into my work all the time and they are the shit. One guy came in after the game and bought a keg and was like "I am drinking this all by myself tonight" and walked out - thought was pretty hilarious

**SammyG** · 07-02-2006, 01:33 AM

Germany and France should be a pretty good final.

**Flair Wooo** · 07-02-2006, 06:20 AM

fucking shite.

**treen007** · 07-02-2006, 07:46 AM

I'm guessing Germany - france, so that prolly means that it will be italy - portugal since I've been wrong with every one of my predictions thus far.

England were sub-par the entire tournament and deserved to go out. Hargreaves was huge in this last game, bout time they played him in his natural position. Looked to me that McClaren had already taken over. Sven was mailing it in. I have to say, really terrible decision by the FA to announce replacement before the Finals. Would love to have had Scolari.

Beckham has always been overrated, C. Ronaldo is a little bitch

**Cactus Sid** · 07-02-2006, 07:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Flair Wooo

fucking shite.

Ah....the come down after the over optimism

Every 2 years.....its fantastic

**treen007** · 07-02-2006, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by BCWWF

ESPN would have you believe that Kasey Keller is better

sad, but true

truly Howard should have started in net. Keller has always been shite. Friedel was the dogs bollocks in 2002

**Mr. Monday Morning** · 07-02-2006, 08:23 AM

I can't see Germany getting past the Italians. The Italian defence is way too strong and with guys like Totti and Pirlo they only need one chance to slice that German defence, which is still pretty weak, wide open.

France - Portugal...eh. It seems like the Zidane farewell tour right now, gonna have to give them the edge. Of course that means Euro 2000 all over again if I'm right, but we'll see.

**Rob** · 07-02-2006, 08:51 AM

I think it's Germany vs. Portugal in the final.

**ct2k** · 07-02-2006, 09:16 AM

England were subpar all tournament, yesterday we actually turned up, and some of our guys put in fantastic performances, but losing Rooney was the killers, Crouch was getting everything upfront but he had nobody to feed the ball to, he's not an up-on-his-own striker, so why Sven put him up alone is beyond me...Oh no its not, Sven's clueless.

**ct2k** · 07-02-2006, 09:19 AM

I think as usual most of the most highly touted teams have failed to produce, what does that show? Individuals are great, but not if they don't work well together, we have one of the best pools of talented players we've ever had, but Sven didn't use them to their fullest potential, we can only blame the players so far. Why for instance did he sub Joe Cole off pretty much every game, for Stuart Downing and Owen Hargreaves amongst others? Joe Cole had a good tournament, played consistently well, Frank Lampard was consistently awful, yet he played every minute...

**Rob** · 07-02-2006, 09:34 AM

Fantastic performances? Hargreaves and Neville did well but that's about it. The rest of them were average at best.

**Dave Youell** · 07-02-2006, 10:22 AM

The only real positive from this world cup is that I've changed my opinion on Hargreaves.

Now it's time to re-build, hopefully Sven hasn't rubbed off on Mclaren too much and we will go back to a 4 4 2, or ideally a 5 3 2

Nice to see Backham drop the captain's armband, he's done alright as the skipper, but now it's time for John Terry to take his rightful play as England's new rock.

Oh and last night was the first time in my life I wanted to hit my mum, when she came over to my house and said that famous women saying:

'Why are you so upset? It's only a game'

I've yet to talk to her since...

**Rob** · 07-02-2006, 10:26 AM

Terry shakes so much that I think he has Parkinson's.

I'd go with Gary Neville with Steven Gerrard as vice.

**Mr. Monday Morning** · 07-02-2006, 10:42 AM

Neville doesn't have that long left though does he? Best to give it to someone with more than 2-3 years to go in the team. I would go with Gerrard, as Terry still doesn't look 100% comfortable at international level.

**Rob** · 07-02-2006, 10:52 AM

See your point but I'd still go with Neville.

**ct2k** · 07-02-2006, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Rob

Fantastic performances? Hargreaves and Neville did well but that's about it. The rest of them were average at best.

Hargreaves? He didnt do much of anything!

Crouch (who i usually slate) came on and fought for everything, his control was great, he hustled, defended well but ultimately he had nobody to feed the ball to, as i already mentioned.

The defenders in general were solid i though, Rio and Cole as much as Neville, who made a few pretty big fuck ups which luckily didn't cost us, the backpost fiasco comes to mind.

07-01-2006, 02:48 PM	#1001
Evil Vito President of Freedonia Posts: 58,383	Ricardo was insane

07-01-2006, 02:49 PM	#1002
Jesus Shuttlesworth Posts: 42,765	lol Beckham subbed himself out and couldnt take part in the shoot out...what a bitch

07-01-2006, 02:52 PM	#1003
The Miz Clutch Poster Posts: 11,997	Becs, had you already seen a picture of Posh and knocked one out? Respek

07-01-2006, 02:53 PM	#1004
Rob Ban Fan Rt Hon Ed Balls MP Posts: 9,004	Rooney is a fucking idiot, but Ronaldo can fuck right off too, little twat. Also, fair play to Rob Harvey who called it before the tournament that Lampard wouldn't score a goal.

07-01-2006, 03:01 PM	#1006
The Miz Clutch Poster Posts: 11,997	Wots that got to do wif da youf in Asia

07-01-2006, 03:05 PM	#1007
NoJabbaNoBogRoll Alive Posts: 13,683	At least one paper will go with the headline 'ROO IDIOT' with a picture of the groin attack, and a picture of Rooney's angry ugly mug next to it. Our players are just technically pathetic, and never look confident with penalties. Other countries know how the find the corner most of the time, plus they don't have a goalie who is unable to reach the corners due to his pie habit.

07-01-2006, 03:17 PM	#1008
Mr. Monday Morning All Part Of The Plan Posts: 12,125	I almost wish we had got through since if we had been missing Terry, Rooney, Beckham and Owen for the semi, some people's ridiculous expectations might have been lowered ever so slightly. Ah well, at least we're not bitching like the Aussies

07-01-2006, 03:46 PM	#1011
Rob Part time poster Posts: 22,963	I was saying it off and on before the tournament... Erikkson is your Berti Vogts. His tactics are non existant. In 5 years, he hasn't built a team. The FA gave him more support than they have any other manager and he blew it. England have been SHITE for 5 years. They have been living off one result against Germany who ended up getting to the World Cup final anyway so it made zero difference. His attiutde towards friendlies was the shits and his squad for this championship was totally wrong. Owen and Rooney were both hurt going in and if you are picking them, you need 5 strikers. I said for ages that Darren Bent might be shit but you have to try him in build up matches to find out and they didn't. Picking Theo Walcott was insane but if he at least played him, he could have said he lives and dies by his decisions. In truth, he fucking bottled it. As for the players, I wouldn't blame them too much other than the fact that absolutely none of them stepped up to the ocassion with the very, very possible exception of Gary Neville when he actually played and Aaron Lennon wasn't too bad. Extremely mediocre performances by everyone.

07-01-2006, 03:49 PM	#1012
BCWWF The People's Member Posts: 18,092	I don't know what Beckhams deal was, but he didn't look fit to play on that team. He had zero impact on the game to that point. Also, not like it really mattered, but why did they take Lennon out at the end? Even though it wouldn't have really affected anything, he was playing really well. But yeah, when Beckham, Joe Cole and Lampard don't show up, you're going to have some trouble. That missed shot by Rooney, where he completely whiffed on the ball, was pretty awful too. Also, I knew as soon as it started that Robinson wouldn't win the shootout. He has no presence in the net compared to Lehman yesterday. And he obviously doesn't have the trick down for reading the shot. Saying that the goalie just guesses which way to dive and goes for it is kind of inaccurate, but that is what he was doing. He looked awful. From watching this tournament, I think the two keys of winning are good strikers and good goalies. England has been good in the midfield and defense but lacked at the others for a while now. Look at Germany though, of course they were going to be good but before the World Cup I wouldn't have had them doing this well. I give the credit to Klose, who has been amazing in this World Cup. Rooney is good, but I've never stayed impressed with Owen after 1998 and Peter Crouch is just laughable. It will be interesting to see where they go with a new coach now though, I don't think Sven will be missed too much.

07-01-2006, 03:58 PM	#1013
Rob Part time poster Posts: 22,963	The difference with Sven and Steve McClaren is that McClaren would have taken 5 strikers and even if his own tactics were shit, if you needed goals, he'd gamble and put 5 guys up front. That's what you should want.

07-01-2006, 03:58 PM	#1014
Mr. Monday Morning All Part Of The Plan Posts: 12,125	Considering the new coach is Sven's #2 I doubt much is going to change -edit- fuck's sake Harvey I remain skeptical of McClaren. If he shows he has some balls and drops/subs the big names when they're obviously not playing well, then we'll see.

07-01-2006, 04:17 PM	#1015
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	Haha Ronaldo, legend. That "friendly" nudge he gave Rooney before the game, and his wink after Rooney saw red.

07-01-2006, 04:18 PM	#1016
Rob Part time poster Posts: 22,963	Harvey rules!

07-01-2006, 04:20 PM	#1018
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	Too Shay.

07-01-2006, 04:23 PM	#1019
Rob Part time poster Posts: 22,963	Alan Shearer is soooo tough too. Shame he ran from Roy Keane like a bitch.

07-01-2006, 05:06 PM	#1020
Mr. Monday Morning All Part Of The Plan Posts: 12,125	He kicked Neil Lennon's face in, that's good enough for me

07-01-2006, 05:13 PM	#1021
Loose Cannon I'm all there is Posts: 31,811	HENRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

07-01-2006, 06:37 PM	#1022
The Miz Clutch Poster Posts: 11,997	Only European teams left GAY

07-01-2006, 09:51 PM	#1024
Rob Part time poster Posts: 22,963	Shouldn't have stayed up then. I could have told you what was gonna happen if you asked before. Actually, I said on here 2 weeks ago it was over for England at the quater finals. As stated earlier today, I'm never wrong

07-02-2006, 12:54 AM	#1025
Jesus Shuttlesworth Posts: 42,765	Some dude called into a local sports radio station I was listening to earlier today and said "If its France vs Germany in the final do you think France will surrender?" Prob been said 393935398539 times but that was the first time I heard it and thought it was pretty funny. I kinda wanted to see Brazil go all the way, I like their style. Also, Brazilians come into my work all the time and they are the shit. One guy came in after the game and bought a keg and was like "I am drinking this all by myself tonight" and walked out - thought was pretty hilarious

07-02-2006, 01:33 AM	#1026
SammyG LAKE SHOW HOES Posts: 25,768	Germany and France should be a pretty good final.

07-02-2006, 06:20 AM	#1027
Flair Wooo Posts: 2,901	fucking shite.

07-02-2006, 07:46 AM	#1028
treen007 Suck it and see... Posts: 66	I'm guessing Germany - france, so that prolly means that it will be italy - portugal since I've been wrong with every one of my predictions thus far. England were sub-par the entire tournament and deserved to go out. Hargreaves was huge in this last game, bout time they played him in his natural position. Looked to me that McClaren had already taken over. Sven was mailing it in. I have to say, really terrible decision by the FA to announce replacement before the Finals. Would love to have had Scolari. Beckham has always been overrated, C. Ronaldo is a little bitch

07-02-2006, 08:23 AM	#1031
Mr. Monday Morning All Part Of The Plan Posts: 12,125	I can't see Germany getting past the Italians. The Italian defence is way too strong and with guys like Totti and Pirlo they only need one chance to slice that German defence, which is still pretty weak, wide open. France - Portugal...eh. It seems like the Zidane farewell tour right now, gonna have to give them the edge. Of course that means Euro 2000 all over again if I'm right, but we'll see.

07-02-2006, 08:51 AM	#1032
Rob Part time poster Posts: 22,963	I think it's Germany vs. Portugal in the final.

07-02-2006, 09:16 AM	#1033
ct2k Triple A Posts: 48,551	England were subpar all tournament, yesterday we actually turned up, and some of our guys put in fantastic performances, but losing Rooney was the killers, Crouch was getting everything upfront but he had nobody to feed the ball to, he's not an up-on-his-own striker, so why Sven put him up alone is beyond me...Oh no its not, Sven's clueless.

07-02-2006, 09:19 AM	#1034
ct2k Triple A Posts: 48,551	I think as usual most of the most highly touted teams have failed to produce, what does that show? Individuals are great, but not if they don't work well together, we have one of the best pools of talented players we've ever had, but Sven didn't use them to their fullest potential, we can only blame the players so far. Why for instance did he sub Joe Cole off pretty much every game, for Stuart Downing and Owen Hargreaves amongst others? Joe Cole had a good tournament, played consistently well, Frank Lampard was consistently awful, yet he played every minute...

07-02-2006, 09:34 AM	#1035
Rob Part time poster Posts: 22,963	Fantastic performances? Hargreaves and Neville did well but that's about it. The rest of them were average at best.

07-02-2006, 10:22 AM	#1036
Dave Youell 1/2 Optimist 1/2 Amazing Posts: 12,427	The only real positive from this world cup is that I've changed my opinion on Hargreaves. Now it's time to re-build, hopefully Sven hasn't rubbed off on Mclaren too much and we will go back to a 4 4 2, or ideally a 5 3 2 Nice to see Backham drop the captain's armband, he's done alright as the skipper, but now it's time for John Terry to take his rightful play as England's new rock. Oh and last night was the first time in my life I wanted to hit my mum, when she came over to my house and said that famous women saying: 'Why are you so upset? It's only a game' I've yet to talk to her since...

07-02-2006, 10:26 AM	#1037
Rob Part time poster Posts: 22,963	Terry shakes so much that I think he has Parkinson's. I'd go with Gary Neville with Steven Gerrard as vice.