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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 5:56 am
by MGM
Paul also picked the winner of the European Cup two years ago wrong. :D

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:22 am
by ChimeraCreative
BAD OCTOPUS!:smackbum:

If it helps at all, my family is committed to cheering for Holland. I suspect my mother might even stoop to hand-wringing, explosive cursing and bargaining with God on the Netherlands' behalf.:e2drunk:

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:15 pm
by ChimeraCreative
ENGLAND

CAN'T PLAY
CAN'T REF

(I still love Stocky and CBKA :e2flowers:)

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 4:15 pm
by CBKA
MGM wrote:True enough, I noticed that as well. If you pass the ball 20 times, at a point you really do need to take the shot.

That, and their defense is not their strongest part, with the efficiency Holland's been displaying, that might give us a shot at them.

close game i thought, even if you lot were abit dirty(nowt wrong with that in my eyes).

I think everyone would agree that spain are the best team in the world though, so fair play.and with arguably there best striker, torres, unfit for the competition

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 4:18 pm
by CBKA
ChimeraCreative wrote:Paul the Octopus picked Spain. Sorry, Michel, looks like the psychic cephalopod doesn't favour Holland's odds.:disappointed:
probably didnt see it over there but on sky sports news all dutch were giving a fuck ton of abuse saying he'll be calamari in morining:smilielol5:

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 4:21 pm
by CBKA
ChimeraCreative wrote:ENGLAND

CAN'T PLAY
CAN'T REF

(I still love Stocky and CBKA :e2flowers:)
i dont like howard webb but im not sure what he did wrong (apart from show yellow instead of red to de jong?)

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 6:42 am
by Mr Wallstreet
Yesterday's match was terribly unimpressive. Excessively aggresive tactics on Netherlands part & excessive drama on Spain's part.

Somewhere there should have been soccer being played in all this...

Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:38 pm
by MGM
Webb gave a horrible performance. De Jong should've caught red, the same for arguably Van Bommel but certainly Iniesta and Puyol. That, and the corner he failed to give led to the attack (offside, if I'm correct), which led to the goal.

And yes, it was a bit dirty, but at a certain point, Webb started to decided pretty much everything against Holland. Some of the yellows he gave certainly weren't yellow cards at all.

That said, Spain did deserve the win more than Holland. 'Cause let's face it, if you get two chances like Robben did and you don't score...

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:24 am
by CBKA
MGM wrote:Webb gave a horrible performance. De Jong should've caught red, the same for arguably Van Bommel but certainly Iniesta and Puyol. That, and the corner he failed to give led to the attack (offside, if I'm correct), which led to the goal.

And yes, it was a bit dirty, but at a certain point, Webb started to decided pretty much everything against Holland. Some of the yellows he gave certainly weren't yellow cards at all.

That said, Spain did deserve the win more than Holland. 'Cause let's face it, if you get two chances like Robben did and you don't score...
The way holland set out to play, he was always going to be heavily involved. You could have easily started the second half with 10, 9 or even 8 players

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:29 pm
by MGM
While that is true, everyone does seem to overlook teh fact that Spain made some rough fouls as well in the first part of the match.

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:50 pm
by XIII
But what were they supposed to do? Let Van Bommel and co. walk all over them? If the ref can't take his responsibilities, then you have to show your opponent that you can reply to their challenge.

It was a dreadful game. Lots of foul play, lots of godawful rulings from the ref but I think in the end, it's the best team that won. Holland showed nothing.

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:02 pm
by MGM
Oh, the best team definitely did win. But I'm still gonna argue about teh decisions before the goal, which in the end were wrong and made the match.

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 4:45 pm
by ChimeraCreative
Bearing in mind that I'm a North American casual viewer of soccer. :blah1:

EDIT: I had a response and deleted it, I'm just not up to dissecting the World Cup with my fine Euro friends.:Hug2:

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:10 pm
by MGM
Wuss, you just can't handle our superior views on football. :D

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 2:35 pm
by XIII
Yes! Superior!!

I think the final world is : that was a rather poor World Cup. Unenjoyable games, rubbish refs, disappointing players, vuvuzelas...

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 7:42 am
by MGM
Agh, true. It was a terrible Cup. Fifa needs to learn to give the players some rest.