The World Cup Thread!

ste · Post by **ste** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:06 am

duncan wrote:
ste wrote:
possum wrote:Oh, crap

USA got whipped by the Czechs 3-0 today. We couldn't even score once.
USA are rated higher than England by FIFA's world rankings... odd huh?
Wait until England meets Czech Republic in some later stage , you'll see what they (FIFA) mean

Only joking . England squad is great...

Did you catch Czech Republic going down 2-0 to Ghana... I'd be glad if England met them later on based on that

tora_tora_tora · Post by **tora_tora_tora** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:01 pm

Japan tie with Croatia, and the last opponent is Brazil.

ste · Post by **ste** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:19 pm

Good luck with that... your gonna need it

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:36 pm

De veras

Los pinches brasile?±os son cabrones por el f??tbol

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:01 am

pinches?

ste · Post by **ste** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:59 pm

Okay, you've officially lost me

tora_tora_tora · Post by **tora_tora_tora** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:13 am

well, in fact, age of reckoning yet to start.

In next World Cup, Australia participate in Asian qualifier(until now they participate in Oceanian qualifier).
And there alredy are several strong rivals, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia. And now, Australia.

I guess it's going to be really tough for Japan to clear its way to the World Cup.

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:13 am

tora_tora_tora wrote:well, in fact, age of reckoning yet to start.

In next World Cup, Australia participate in Asian qualifier(until now they participate in Oceanian qualifier).
And there alredy are several strong rivals, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia. And now, Australia.

I guess it's going to be really tough for Japan to clear its way to the World Cup.

I see Japan one step above Iran and Arabia Saudi. but having Australia is bad news for you, no doubt.

Is there any kind of (sport) rivality between South Korea and Japan? (like Italy vs. Spain or Argentina vs. Brasil)

tora_tora_tora · Post by **tora_tora_tora** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:47 am

duncan wrote:
Is there any kind of (sport) rivality between South Korea and Japan? (like Italy vs. Spain or Argentina vs. Brasil)

Yes, there are rivality between South Korea and Japan. Until quite recently, there are no such sport nationalism here in Japan,
except in Olympic times.

Well, if one look into World Baseball Cup, which Japan happened to win, no one cannot deny there are rivality between South Korea and Japan.
And the underlying structure is hard to decipher, it is really complicated and full of political talking.

And the one thing I'm really worrying is some of South Korea's MMO are really popular among Japanese, though this kind of political construct sometimes surface among gamers' community. Gme as another arm of political world, to reach direct into your PC, humm, I ought to be carefull.

ste · Post by **ste** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:48 pm

I personally think both the Japanese and Korean fans are model sports fans, they support their team with all the passion of England fans (maybe slightly less

) but without all the silly trouble that the minority seem to bring to the English game. Japan were doing well against australia in the group match and were quite unlucky I thought. I'm sure they'll still qualify most years.

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:34 am

Doh, seems the US will not be advancing to the next round

But hey, Mexico will!

ste · Post by **ste** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:59 am

Same for Japan...

Scored a screamer against Brazil and then fell to bits

tora_tora_tora · Post by **tora_tora_tora** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:53 am

Japan's problem is we don't have single FW, even though we have many MFs.
So Japan need striker. And everybody knows this, but solution is hard to get.

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:59 pm

DOH! Heartbreaker loss by Mexico to Argentina in overtime

ste · Post by **ste** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:41 am

England progress to the quater finals

1-0 win over ecqudor, we're still playing rubbish, but hopefully we should beat Portugal. After all, no Deco (suspended), no Ronaldo (injured), no Costinho (suspended). Did anyone catch the Portugal/Holland match, new world record... 16 yellow cards and 4 red... go ref!

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 3:25 am

ste wrote:England progress to the quater finals 1-0 win over ecqudor, we're still playing rubbish, but hopefully we should beat Portugal. After all, no Deco (suspended), no Ronaldo (injured), no Costinho (suspended). Did anyone catch the Portugal/Holland match, new world record... 16 yellow cards and 4 red... go ref!

Female referee, that time of the month?

anguille · Post by **anguille** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:20 am

ste wrote:England progress to the quater finals 1-0 win over ecqudor, we're still playing rubbish, but hopefully we should beat Portugal. After all, no Deco (suspended), no Ronaldo (injured), no Costinho (suspended). Did anyone catch the Portugal/Holland match, new world record... 16 yellow cards and 4 red... go ref!

You may go to the final...but you'll end up loosing against Switzerland

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:29 am

ste wrote:England progress to the quater finals 1-0 win over ecqudor, we're still playing rubbish, but hopefully we should beat Portugal. After all, no Deco (suspended), no Ronaldo (injured), no Costinho (suspended). Did anyone catch the Portugal/Holland match, new world record... 16 yellow cards and 4 red... go ref!

No Owen (injured), out-of-form Rooney (boozed)...COME ON YOU CROUCH!

I still see England in semifinals, though, against Germany, but Ghana will beat them in the finals if Crouch & Co. manage to win the germans' match

ste · Post by **ste** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:03 am

The route we have taken the teams we can possibly encounter in the semi finals are: Brazil, Ghana, Spain or France. The final could very well be Germany tho, but my money is on Argentina.

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:09 pm

ste wrote:The route we have taken the teams we can possibly encounter in the semi finals are: Brazil, Ghana, Spain or France. The final could very well be Germany tho, but my money is on Argentina.

I'm...stunned

France and Italy....

Hard to say which was a bigger shock, Italy defeating Germany, or France over Brazil and then Portugal.