The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread

I know its early but I'm sooooo excited! So I felt the need to make a post rambling about some of the selection stuff.

First off no-one seemed to mention England loosing to Northern Ireland, which was just sad guys.... good for Northern Ireland, yes, they played well, but the British arn't getting it together (When do they ever in qualifyers tho? )

In SA Brazil and Argentina are of course qualified but the other (2/3) spots are still quite open... (rather open, whatever). I'm rooting for UY (still the smallest country to ever win a world cup! w00t!) but of course my preferences just don't count do they?

Back to europe (the only other zone that matters ) Ukrane qualifying was a big surprise... cool tho... don't know anyone from there but if your about you should make yourself known!
CZE looks great, again. I'm pulling for them at least a little.
And croatia is looking decent. This is an impressive one.... my familys from thereabouts
austria, on the other hand, is sucking. which makes me sad.
Other than that I noted poland is doing pretty well (and britain still has to play them )

Anyone else have anything to say?



can't wait.... i really wish i could be in a country that actually televises the d*mn thing.....

I just wanna say that I spent my year in Germany one year too soon

But I'll be glued to the games when they decide to play them here. Last time they had pretty good coverage, but since I got home, I haven't been able to find much good sports on. I mean, I *just* missed the last Formula 1 race by a few hours. I suppose if I were a dedicated fan, I would've set my alarm to wake up in time, but alas, I'm not like my boyfriend! (who got me on F1 in the first place...)

Wait, this is about the world cup...

I'm interested to see how Korea plays this time, I recall them playing rather well... Even through they were partially hosting it!

On another note, I've been in 2 of the new stadiums that will be hosting some of the games, and wow, they're huge and shiny, and BIG! I watched the... Confederations cup? The short games when FIFA tests out the new facilities made for the world cup. Much better than what the olympics did in anycase...

Pitifully enough, I don't even know when the world cup starts... *runs off to find out*

~ Bobo

overpaid but more interesting than cricket to watch... film stars are even more overpaid but I bet you watch films... ahhh the entertainment industry football, like a big play with a limited script.

AAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhh


football, i'll be doing my damdest to avoid ANYTHING to do with football


i totaly agree football players are over paid, they are also pampered like women and have no place on my telly screen!!!


give me rugby any day



or motor sport

If you don't like football, surely you can just ignore us? I mean, I understand, I hate american football..... And its not every country that they're overpaid you know. England just has this... culture or something.

Yeah, Korea did qualify again, along with, among other things saudia arabia and iran.... i prolly do write off non european-SA countries too much... i don't know when the real games start yet either (what a dork!) but i know when the last two qualifying match dates are (then there's european playoffs... and aus vs somewhere in SA).

So many motorsport references... I would hate it so if i only knew of american motorsport..... but i'm gaining some appreciation.

I disagree about the big earning actors. better, maybe. well, not most!

Aw, don't worry, "my" boy just about worships F1....

And guys in race suits are hot

Its just, on this side of the pond its... er... different!

Plus I couldn't belive we had so many motor sport posts in the thread

I'm hijacking my own thread... but its still 23 days till the next match day.....

Yay! More stuff... I was gone over the weekend, but I just got a chance to check out all the games....

most of the qualifying is over realy, just europe thats being so slow

can't belive englands qualified already,..... how unusual.......

i'm worried about cze tho, they arn't looking so good :/ need a win on weds to make it thru!

paraguay and ecuador from s.a., whoohoo, pretty cool, and uruguay isn't out yet... looks like they'll be playing australia (I sure hope they don't mess that up!) for a spot, so i'm crossing my fingers for them....

*totally hates football*

"First off no-one seemed to mention England loosing to Northern Ireland"

I did

In my intro thread.

We were very pleased. One of the most marvellous sporting moments in recent history, it's fair to say.

Huge parties in Belfast... and no trouble at all - which was fantastic.

And it was another splendid game against Wales at the weekend - 3-2.

Both teams played very well, and N Ireland were unlucky not to equalise.

G'on the lads

i want to go...

http://www.fifa.com/default.html

look here for tickets... I think it's a draw (at least it is in Germany), but the prices seem reasonable for a world cup.

Ok, I must post my rant and then go to bed...

Firstly, YAY! Uruguay won... and will now face off with the aussies. last time they did this they kicked arse, so yeah

England did a rather spectacular job against poland, I was most amused. And apparently Michael Owen isn't as useless as people have been making him out to be.

Moving on, France absolutly dominated, giving them somewhat of a surprise spot, and I called the spain thing early... serbia still won thru and spain is merely seeded for the playoffs. Nonetheless I expect spain to pull thru unless paired with slovakia in which case its up in the air and possibly quite interesting. I hope they are, as I don't think Slovakia can take turkey or Cze... and I don't want Cze to get out anyway.

Oh and costa rica (qualified) got an ass kicking but it didn't seem to effect anything

/end rant

but yay! Uruguay won!

(oh, and does anyone else really want to see serbia play croatia? this amuses me endlessly.....)

But even more important: Sweden are coming The aesthetic aspect of the World Cup is saved

thats brilliant birgit....

and firepoise, I'm sorry I never noticed, I, um, have a horrible time with intros still. I'm doing maybe 1/3 of those I want to at this point, as they're horribly hard to keep up on. Its especially brilliant that the parties went well in Belfast!



Well, Fridays the draw for the european playoffs...

Does anyone know if the UK will televise the Uruguay/Australia matches, by chance?
I'll be over there during that time, and I must support that wonderful country.....

*hates football*

*notices many people in this thread do*

Can't beat N.Ireland, but can beat Poland.

The English team makes no [censored] sense.