World Cup

The world cup is nearly here and i plan to watch as much of it as i can. who do you think is gonna win?

Same.....

I think spain has a big chance to win because they won europe cup and their coach is pretty good holland will get far......


And chrisi i have to dissapoint you but germany will suck so hard at world cup im sorry

It's Spain, Argentina (dark horse...), Germany or Holland.

No brazil? i think we'd have a chance if we could take penalties

Same here Arthur, i'll be blagging flexible lunch breaks and early finishes to cram as much of it in as I can. 11 June when the opening game is on is a bank holiday here, so that one's covered

As for the tourney, it's tough to call, but Spain & Brazil are obvious contenders.

Don't write off Italy as defending champs or Germany. The Germans were supposed to be shit at the last two tournaments and they finished 2nd and 3rd...

Holland would be a very outside bet, but don't bank on Portugal or Argentina to do anything except flatter to deceive.

Holland and more so Portugal just don't have the squad in my opinion and Argentina barely qualified with Diego at the helm so why they'll do any better in the actual tournament is beyond me.

As for England, they will most likely crash and burn around the quarters as usual. There's too many reasons why to list, but here's my top 5:

1) Our goalkeepers are all sub-standard
2) Our defenders are all either unfit, injury prone or massively out of form
3) Gerrard and Lampard still can't play in the same team together
4) Our wingers haven't got the final ball nailed
5) Emile Heskey - please leave him at home where he fucking belongs and give his place on the plane to someone better, like Alan Shearer lol

Notwithstanding the above, the way Mexico carved us open and we had to rely on a combination of good saves and poor finishing to beat them... plenty of better teams than Mexico to beat if we want to win the tournament.

On the plus, the new Carlsberg advert is probably the best advert in the world.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66OuJZGDCHE

'Men of England..... it's time to join the immortals....'

Conclusion(?) spain is gonna win:P

i agree with the lot of you.
spain.

brazil has loads of talent that cant play well with eachother (same as england)
ivory coast as a darkhorse to go far. drogba is a machine.

s. korea to the 2nd round =)

Vish_88 wrote:

It's Spain, Argentina (dark horse...), Germany or Holland.

Just because Argentina has Messi?

Spain will win it and then hopefully Barca will win everything next year (except the Europa League, which is all Liverpools!! lol )

mattyla wrote:

Spain will win it and then hopefully Barca will win everything next year (except the Europa League, which is all Liverpools!! lol )

oooh no ooh hell no liverpool aint gonna win europa league, Galatasaray will!!!!!

drogba's done (broken arm), and so is ivory coast. not a dark horse any more.

Good news for England though, Rio "Dopey Cunt Who Makes At Least One Glaring Mistake Each Game That Would Cost Him Were His Teammates Not Massively Better Than Him And Able To Cover Him 95% Of The Time" Ferdinand is out.

Why is he even captain in the first place? The boy hasn't been match fit for a year or more. We might as well give it to Ledley "20 Minutes" King or Emlie "The Stats Don't Lie" Heskey.

Sorry for the pessimism, but it's hard to get carried away with England's chances this year...

mattyla wrote:

Rio "Dopey Cunt Who Makes At Least One Glaring Mistake Each Game That Would Cost Him Were His Teammates Not Massively Better Than Him And Able To Cover Him 95% Of The Time" Ferdinand , Ledley "20 Minutes" King , Emlie "The Stats Don't Lie" Heskey.

seriously, i LOVE when UKs starts talkin about their team. pessimism at its finest.

lol, so the USA has a chance next week to beat England??

thuder87 wrote:

lol, so the USA has a chance next week to beat England??

Everyone has a chance England has some of the best talent in the world, they just can't play together

Who voted for USA?

Confucioun wrote:

Who voted for USA?

i'm guessing an American

edjd9996 wrote:

Confucioun wrote:

Who voted for USA?

i'm guessing an American

Yeah, but America sucks at soccer even though they kicked turkey's ass

USA beat Spain not 12 months ago. How many other teams can boast that?

I have to admit I quite like the Amercian footy team, they always throw a few upsets in to the mix, they make things a bit more interesting. Same goes for Australia.

Can't see them beating England tho, hard to think of any American player who is better than his English counterpart.

ps) Chrisi - if you were English, you'd be pessimistic too... get to the semi finals and lose on penalties to the bloody Germans... again!!

so 2 days to go till we start our campaign and the press have started, i actually heard about this nearly 2 months ago from the same journalist that released the john terry/wayne bridge saga but apparently steven gerrard has got a 17 year old girl pregnant, been dumped by his wife and has been trying to keep the whole thing quiet with a high court injunction against the press, so will gerrard now lose the captaincy, will his mind be on the job in hand and will he have yet another shit world cup as of 4 years ago when he was going to join chelski and he has still to say where he'll be playing next season. i hope it's liverpool but after the season we just had i wouldn't blame him for going

That story has been flying about for ages, maybe that's why he had a shit season...

Give the armband to Peter Crouch

Go South Africa!!!!!

wow, swiss stunner!

never know what can happen in world cup, now spain has to scramble just to advance with a good chile team in their group, and brasil waiting for whoever finishes 2nd. not to mention that robinho is playing in superb form now!

Spain lost 0-1 :O but i still think spain is gonna win

Germany vs Nederlands final...