Football World Cup 2010 - Pre Tournament start - Page 8

gazzae · 12-05-2010, 16:31

Some Carragher quotes courtesy of the fiver...

• "I was never in love with playing for England in the first place."
• "Sitting on the England coach as it prepared to drive us away from the World Cup in Germany, I received a text message. 'Fcuk it! It's only England'. I'd just missed a penalty in the quarter-final shoot-out against Portugal. Representing your country is the ultimate honour, especially in the World Cup. Not to me."
• "I would rather miss for England than LFC."
• "I wasn't giving up my football career or my ambitions. Only England."
• "The Liver Bird mauled the Three Lions in the fight for my loyalties."
• "Whenever I returned home from disappointing England experiences, one unshakeable, overriding thought pushed itself to the forefront of my mind, no matter how much the rest of the nation mourned. 'At least it wasn't Liverpool,' I'd repeat to myself, over and over."

Shadow Demon UK · 12-05-2010, 17:59

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Doesn't look good for John Terry, possible broken toe...

Surely this is good news for England though

SB_07 · 12-05-2010, 20:33

Would not care at all if Terry didn't go, he's a tit and his performances have been pretty poor most of the season.

yesman · 17-05-2010, 17:17

A brief look back at the 1974 World Cup with The Beeb.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...eo/8683125.stm

Great stuff, especially from Cruyff the master

Niles Crane · 21-05-2010, 00:18

Another great World Cup advert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLG6jh23yE

Hom3r · 24-05-2010, 21:51

If like me you like to keep track of the scores, I found this excel spreadsheet that all you do is put the score, it updates the group tables and progresses the teams to the next stages.

MadGamer · 24-05-2010, 22:25

Nationwide ad, this is a funny one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYDS-D8BN5g

Shadow Demon UK · 25-05-2010, 19:15

Did anyone else see the Portugal score last night? - Portugal 0-0 Cape Verde Islands

Portugal played pretty much a full strength team as well. It looks like Ivory Coast have a really good chance of going through in their group.

DocDutch · 30-05-2010, 15:34

England is really not convincing me that they are able to lift the cup after watching the performance against Japan.

MadGamer · 30-05-2010, 15:42

I agree with that, but thanks for the two own goals Japan

icestar2 · 30-05-2010, 15:45

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Originally Posted by DocDutch

England is really not convincing me that they are able to lift the cup after watching the performance against Japan.

They are not convincing me that they will even get out of the group tbh.

Arthurgray50@blu · 30-05-2010, 16:07

POOR, PATHETIC, we didn't score, there were own goals, WIN THE WORLD CUP, on this performance, l have seen better football on a Sunday morning.

Niles Crane · 30-05-2010, 18:19

It was just an experimental friendly against a decent Japan. The days of wiping the floor with the non-traditional powerhouses died a long time ago.

icestar2 · 30-05-2010, 18:42

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Originally Posted by Niles Crane

It was just an experimental friendly against a decent Japan. The days of wiping the floor with the non-traditional powerhouses died a long time ago.

Fair point but I was not expecting any floor wiping just a decent performance and for me it was not there. Again we were almost useless till the second half. For this we'll be punished against the big teams. I did start to feel good about our chances in the run-up but in the last two games I've lost alot of hope

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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

POOR, PATHETIC, we didn't score, there were own goals, WIN THE WORLD CUP, on this performance, l have seen better football on a Sunday morning.

Lol you have a great way of putting things Arthur

Niles Crane · 31-05-2010, 20:02

360 degree view of the 10 stadiums: http://worldcupstadiums.in3sixty.com/

[boast]I should be visiting at least 4 of them.[/boast]