General World Cup thread

[Jedi Shrimper]

Watching Holland smash Spain has made me waaay more excited about England's game tomorrow night. This can only end in tears.

 

[Pubey]

What a result. What a game

 

[Prawn]

Well that was a brilliant game between Spain and the Netherlands.

Now for the main event Chile to get thrashed by Australia!!!!

 

[Pubey]

Well that was a brilliant game between Spain and the Netherlands.

Now for the main event Chile to get thrashed by Australia!!!!

Quote for prosperity

 

[A Century United]

Quote for prosperity

...or possibly Posterity? :whistling:

 

[Pubey]

...or possibly Posterity? :whistling:

Aye that's the one. First night out on the beers for a while

 

[Prawn]

Well that was a good game, the keeper was at fault for the first goal but Australia fought back well.

At least we're not last!! :smile:

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Weren't Holland wonderful tonight?

(Btw,I thought Hector Moreno had a great game for Mexico too).

 

[buffalowolf]

Thought that African referee was way out of his depth in the Australia - Chile game, definitely favoured Chile all through the game, Cahill was robbed of a blatant penalty, Ref found it easy to hand Aussie players yellow cards took him 85 minutes to give one to Chile.Hope England get a decent one anyway, maybe an Aussie ref lol
:smile:

 

[buffalowolf]

Even more funny if it was an Argentinian ref lol:hilarious:

 

[Sandbach Shrimper]

Spain just capitulated in that second half and showed no fight. It really felt like the end of an era for them. Xavi was anonymous, defence and goalkeeper were all over the place and once Costa went off they had no threat up front. Didn't think they deserved to go 1-0 ahead in the first place, very dubious penalty (again). Holland got at them and I was really impressed with them. They looked solid at the back (that black fella who dived when 'headbutted' was annoying though) and in Van Persie and Robben they have two match-winners. Van Persie obviously likes playing for Van Gaal a lot more than he did for Moyes. Holland do have a habit of playing well in the group stages and peaking too soon though.

Anyone else starting to get annoyed by this new trend of celebrating goals with the whole squad and subs running on the pitch? I think refs really need to clamp down on it.

 

[Pubey]

Love this world cup so far...

 

[Pubey]

A couple of incredible goals yesterday

 

[buffalowolf]

Tell you what if Bentley was Australian ,he would be playing at the World cup now.But seriously Langerak is a much better keeper than Matt Ryan.I think he will be in goal for the Aussies against Spain. But didnt the Aussies give the oranje a scare.

 

[Jim Levenstein]

Tell you what if Bentley was Australian ,he would be playing at the World cup now.But seriously Langerak is a much better keeper than Matt Ryan.I think he will be in goal for the Aussies against Spain. But didnt the Aussies give the oranje a scare.

Matt Ryan is really highly thought of in Belgium

 

[blues_r_best]

 

[Pubey]

[video=youtube;zzUjOzcI4oU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzUjOzcI4oU[/video]

 

[Sandbach Shrimper]

I think it's been a good tournament so far and it seems really open now with Spain out and Brazil struggling. Really can't predict who's going to win at the moment, but often the bigger teams limp through the group stages and then turn it on when it matters. Will be interesting to see how France, Germany and Argentina do in their second games.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I think it's been a good tournament so far and it seems really open now with Spain out and Brazil struggling. Really can't predict who's going to win at the moment, but often the bigger teams limp through the group stages and then turn it on when it matters. Will be interesting to see how France, Germany and Argentina do in their second games.

Personally,I wouldn't call France one of the "bigger teams" anymore, but I'm sure they'll get through to the knock out phase easily enough.

 

[Bobby dazzler]

typical England help