gthyni Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 That's riddiculous. It wasn't high, he wen't for the ball, he had no other yellow cards. Make up call. Plain and simple. 92453[/snapback] yeah right. Pirlo was deep into his own part of the field facing the wrong way so the tackle was totally uncalled for. And tackles with full force against the wrist often cause serious injuries. If you see nothing wrong with stunts like that, USA has no business in football whatsoever Just cut the numbers of teams in the world cup to raise the standard Link to comment
Guest Nogbad Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 Just cut the numbers of teams in the world cup to raise the standard 92458[/snapback] Cutting the Azzuri would have made a good start tonight. Link to comment
Guest MotoMessiah Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 yeah right.Pirlo was deep into his own part of the field facing the wrong way so the tackle was totally uncalled for. And tackles with full force against the wrist often cause serious injuries. If you see nothing wrong with stunts like that, USA has no business in football whatsoever Just cut the numbers of teams in the world cup to raise the standard 92458[/snapback] Much like elbows to the face? Guess you're the football expert. Right here.... Link to comment
gthyni Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 Much like elbows to the face? Guess you're the football expert. Right here.... 92470[/snapback] that was unaccepable too and ask any italian and he/she would agree completely. I've followed football for 40 years, and played myself for just as long, not so often nowadays though, but what do I know Link to comment
Guest MotoMessiah Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 I being was being facetious of course. Link to comment
DeBenGuzzi Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 the US is boned, speaking of boned god F'n bless brazil, I'm moving there, thats it. I'm so going. almost all the "babes of the world cup" are from brazil... Link to comment
Guest Nogbad Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 (edited) France - Korea. France have already opened the scoring thanks to Thierry Henri and seem to have found their form! At last! France done out of a valid second by bad refereeing! Edited June 18, 2006 by Nogbad Link to comment
gthyni Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 France played better but without heart, again, instead of killing the match they played to control it and of course Korea got their equalizer. Brazil, again, didn't impress against Oz. Weak performance from most of the big teams so far, only Italy's first half against Ghana, the Czeck against USA and most of all Argentina has impressed me. Link to comment
Guest Nogbad Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 and most of all Argentina has impressed me. 92538[/snapback] So far, I think Argentina would be my pick for the cup. Poor France, they got careless and then got mad. SK were not the most skilful team, but they play like robots to the whistle. The great strength of the Koreans and Japanese is that it makes no difference whether they are a goal up or down, or even several goals down, they just play as hard as they can till the end of the game. That kind of determination is worth something against a technically better, but more erratic and emotional opponent. Link to comment
Guzzirider Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 I have watched only two games so far while I have been on my travels- watched England v Paraguay in an Irish pub, and the England v Trinidad and Tobago in a Dutch bar. Both very average perormances by England but the right results- Sweden on Tuesday and we are historically poor against them so who knows what is going to happen? It was interesting travelling around different countries seeing how each country was reacting to the competition. In England there are St Georges flags everywhere, in Holland orange flags and balls, in Germany many flags too but in France there did not seem to be any open expression of support for the team. The border controls were very strict in Germany- long queues as they checked each car going into the country for hooligans Guy Link to comment
Guest MotoMessiah Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 England-Sweden's turning out to be a pretty dang good match. Beauty of a shot by Cole Link to comment
gthyni Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Beauty of a shot by Cole .. but Isaksson should have taken that, a moment of lost concentration and he fraction of a second too late. Paraguay vs Trinidad is 1-0 so right now Sweden vs England is just a match too avoid Germany in the next round. Germany beat Ecuador with 3-0 missed that match .. so I can't commented on that Link to comment
Guest MotoMessiah Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Wow! 1-1 England/Sweden Link to comment
Guzzirider Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Another mediocre England performance- I guess the draw was a fair result bearing in mind we dominated the first half and Sweden were much better in the second. At least we have won the group and do not face Germany- although we must not underestimate Ecuador and I reckon the Swedes may upset the Germans. Guy Link to comment
Guest MotoMessiah Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Well I don't know a lot about the game (I'm a insular Yank and all). In fact I have to watch Spanish Telemundo as American's don't know how to broadcast the game let alone play it. But that was a great match, IMO. Link to comment
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