#623718 - 21/06/06 12:28 PM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: Birgit]
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Running environmental poi spinning lemming
Registered: 16/07/04
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Paraguay vs Trinidad and Tobago 2-0
Sweden vs England 2-2
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#623719 - 21/06/06 12:36 PM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: Old-User--6076]
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NYC
Registered: 26/08/01
Loc: NYC, NY, USA
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Written by: Psycho_lemming
Paraguay vs Trinidad and Tobago 2-0
Sweden vs England 2-2
Were you posting that for people that don't have the internet?
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#623721 - 21/06/06 02:26 PM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: Old-User--6076]
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Dreamer
Registered: 15/03/02
Loc: York, England
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Hey, I am actually away from the internet for parts of the day  And sometimes at work I have to use the internet to check the score because i can't see the tv... altho i could hear the commentary at the time... er... what AM i babbling about? And seeing myself quoted in two of the top posters signatures was making me batty for awhile... hmm, maybe not making... I miss bender!
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#623723 - 21/06/06 09:29 PM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: Ade]
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had her carpal tunnel surgery already thanks v much
Registered: 27/01/05
Loc: Edinburgh
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On Equador's motivation... well! I'm not sure why they'd prefer England to Sweden (or Trinidad...), I'd say they're both doable (though England more now Owen's out, but they couldn't have known that). But this way Miro might get the most goals in, and every bit of confidence from winning matches is good 
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#623725 - 21/06/06 10:23 PM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: ZeroG]
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had her carpal tunnel surgery already thanks v much
Registered: 27/01/05
Loc: Edinburgh
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Oh no, not another Germany-Holland or Germany-Argentina! At least Jens Lehmann is ace at the penalties
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#623726 - 22/06/06 11:08 AM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: Birgit]
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Dreamer
Registered: 15/03/02
Loc: York, England
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Argentina was not entirely inspiring, and the netherlands arn't half bad.... tomorrow is the big crazy set of games where everything is up in the air tho!
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#623727 - 23/06/06 04:07 AM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: Kyrian]
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NYC
Registered: 26/08/01
Loc: NYC, NY, USA
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Who said the US was overrated? We scored TWO whole goals this tournament which is two more than we did 8 years ago! And it's also been 8 consecutive years without losing to IRAN! GO TEAM!
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#623728 - 23/06/06 10:10 AM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: NYC]
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Are we there yet?
Registered: 14/03/01
Loc: australia
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#623730 - 23/06/06 11:20 AM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: Ry]
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NYC
Registered: 26/08/01
Loc: NYC, NY, USA
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Why are there no updated brackets? Do you people not do brackets? There are clearly brackets that should be partially filled in now. BBC, FIFA, ESPN... no brackets! What is wrong with you people?! I shouldn't need a slide rule to see who the winner of the Ghana/Brasil game will play next! I know how to figure it out but would it be so hard to make some partially filled brackets? At least make it look like March Madness and maybe we'll pay attention.
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#623731 - 23/06/06 01:53 PM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: NYC]
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Dreamer
Registered: 15/03/02
Loc: York, England
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Yeah, and in march madness they don't change from "round of 16" to "QUARTER finals" either But yeah well. God, it did take me like 5 minutes to verify that australia was really through tho.... I suppose I could have used my google homepage but didn't feel like logging in.... google does make things very easy tho, and so does the fantasy premier league home page tomorrow is it, we figure out who the last what the hell is going on in g bit, and (hopefully) confirm the ukraine in h...... looking forward to this madness  i still can't wait for the england ecuador match!
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#623732 - 23/06/06 01:56 PM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: Kyrian]
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Dreamer
Registered: 15/03/02
Loc: York, England
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Dreamin is still how the strong survive
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#623733 - 23/06/06 02:01 PM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: Kyrian]
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NYC
Registered: 26/08/01
Loc: NYC, NY, USA
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Well done.
Have a cookie.
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#623734 - 24/06/06 09:44 AM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: NYC]
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Friendly Fire Fiddler
Registered: 21/12/05
Loc: Munich
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So as the World Cup moves on to round 2, maybe time for another lookout.
May 30, before the start, I had foreseen here:
Written by:
AF1: Germany - Sweden
AF2: Argentina – Portugal
AF3: England- Poland
AF4: Mexico – Holland
AF5: Italy - Croatia
AF6: France - Ukraine
AF7: Brazil - Czech
AF8: Switzerland - Spain
Thats 13 out of 16 teams picked right from 32 possible, not too bad I guess ...
Congratulations for Australia, Ecuador and Ghana to have made it against my odds and having it well deserved by great games.
Also good that, opposite to WC02, referee decisions have so far been generally correct (including USA-Italy!), only 2 games were decisively misjudged (Frances annihiled 2nd goal against Korea and Ghanas penalty against USA) but none of this decided who got into second round.
As sidenote, the 4 African teams made only 10 points together in 12 games. Thats very disappointing, but also as I'd foreseen. And it should pour cold water on the requests for a 5th African team seat in WCs, raised since Cameroon beat then World Champion Argentina in the opening game in 1990 to only be stopped in overtime of quarter final by lucky Englishmen. With such a poor performance, and teams like Euro Champion Greece, last WC 3rd Turkey, Ireland, Belgium, Russia missing as only 7 Euro teams allowed in, I dont see a justification for that additional African seat, as much as I like the athletic African play.
Brazil remains the team to beat, they always have seen the 1st round as warmup and their potential seems to justify that arrongance, as they got 20 player who can turn around a game in 15 minutes.
Argentina and Spain are impressively strong, so is Germany backed by huge enthusiasm.
So what's next ? I see now coming after very tough next games: (2 of those 4 forseen in May)
QF1: Germany-Argentina (AHRRR ... closet patriot starts praying)
QF2: Italy-Switzerland
QF3: England-Portugal (remember 04)
QF4: Brazil-Spain
SF1: Germany-Italy (closet patriot prayes again)
SF2: Portugal-Brazil
Final: Germany-Brazil ( ... and again)
Oh, and we havent seen any violence or hooliganism so far, but huge partying crowds in the stadiums and at the many big screens in our city centres, with fans exchanging trickots and all that Jazz, just great.
Now in the ko rounds, it will get REALLY exciting ...
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#623735 - 24/06/06 12:25 PM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: ZeroG]
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NYC
Registered: 26/08/01
Loc: NYC, NY, USA
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Written by: ZeroG
So as the World Cup moves on to round 2, maybe time for another lookout.
May 30, before the start, I had foreseen here:
Written by:
AF1: Germany - Sweden
AF2: Argentina – Portugal
AF3: England- Poland
AF4: Mexico – Holland
AF5: Italy - Croatia
AF6: France - Ukraine
AF7: Brazil - Czech
AF8: Switzerland - Spain
Thats 13 out of 16 teams picked right from 32 possible, not too bad I guess ...
Wow, you picked all the best teams to advance and they did. Except for the upsets. Well done.
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#623736 - 24/06/06 07:23 PM
Re: The Official 2006 World Cup in Germany Thread
[Re: NYC]
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Friendly Fire Fiddler
Registered: 21/12/05
Loc: Munich
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Written by:
Wow, you picked all the best teams to advance and they did. Except for the upsets. Well done.
Well, I didnt pick "strong teams" like Korea, USA who've made semis/quarters last time neither fell for any of the many secret tips ... and it was hard to foresee that top teams like Czech ( and England) get their top strikers injured ...
Anyway, really intersting will be if my prediction for the quaters will stand, where I still see on track 6 of 8 teams and 2 of 4 games ...
The ko round will get exciting, but a distance shot, a wrong offside, a red card or penalty can turn a game upside down instantly ... so let the fun bit commence.
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