World Cup Prediction game

[grim_tales]

Didnt expect Italy v New Zealand to be 1-1

[Markgway]

Portugal just ass-fucked North Korea 7-0.

[grim_tales]

Well done England. Through to last 16.
Nervy last 10 minutes though but with England they always are.
US go through as group winners,

[degeneration]

Let's just hope Germany beat Ghana and win their group to set up an England V Germany next round. About time England actually play a decent team...

[grim_tales]

I'm just pleased we're through. We seem to do better against better sides.

[Markgway]

England were pretty lucky to be honest.

Two poor performances and a win against a piss-poor Slovenia who couldn't hit a barn door.

[Shingster]

We scraped through one of the weakest World Cup groups I can remember. Very lucky but hey, at least we're still in it. That's all that counts.

[grim_tales]

True. Bloody nervy last 15 minutes, I think the team were sh*tting themselves then Slovenia might score.
What exactly did Cole do when he came on?

[Markgway]

What exactly did Cole do when he came on?

Nothing. But that didn't stop the team bullying Capello into it.

[grim_tales]

He did his job of wasting time to protect the lead I guess.
Did you see Italy have gone out?
Finished bottom of their group with Slovakia and Paraguay qualifying. NZ came third.
Italy lost to Slovakia 3-2, some great goals.
I would argue Italy's group was quite easy like Englands, at least they managed to qualify!

[Yi-Long]

Italy is a shite team anyway. Didn't really come as a surprise that they were as bad as they were, but like you said, they were in an easy group, so I am a bit surprised they didn't manage to survive the group-stage. Ah well, I'm glad those bastards are out.

[Markgway]

Good play (and two cracking free kicks) from Japan has seen them victor 3-1 against Denmark and proceed to the 4th round.

[grim_tales]

Which country has the hottest girl?

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/show ... ?t=1284073

The Brazillian girl is gorgeous

[Markgway]

You have selected Elsa Benitez of Mexico as your World Champion

[grim_tales]

It was Brazil v Paraguay in the final for me.
I really like Freema Argeyman (sp?)

[degeneration]

For me Mexico won it. Spain, Honduras (I think it was) and S. Korea made up the semis. Tough choices there!

[grim_tales]

We just weren't good enough today, in fact we were awful imo for most of the game.
Our defence was sh*te, Germany's first goal was schoolboy defending FFS.
We were good in flashes - I know its academic now but its' also a serious issue for football itself - why Lamps' goal was not allowed - I do not know That was miles over the line FFS
In the 2nd half we were appalling - we need to score and so Capello takes Defoe off and brings on.... Heskey???

[Shingster]

I said to my mate's after the Algeria match "look on the bright side, we can't possibly play worse than that in this tournament" boy was I fucking wrong!

[grim_tales]

We were terrible.

[Shingster]

Indeed and this is the first world cup I can remember where England have gone out and I couldn't care less, purely because we never played at all in this tournament, even the Slovenia win wasn't particularly impressive.

[grim_tales]

That was "reasonable" I guess but not impressive.

[rascalf]

Sack the no good manager and bring in Uncle Harry!!

[Markgway]

Lampard's goal was obviously well over the line. I spotted it upon first real time viewing. I was amazed when it was disallowed. That 60 secs of play apart, however, Germany dominated and deserved the win. Far too much hype over the England team. Happens every tournament and will happen again next time. Two poor games and a slight 1-0 victory over a weak Slovenia and there were pundits talking about "we're gonna win this". When will they learn?

[Shingster]

I think every England fan has to say fair play to Germany as well, how many of us watched our opening games thinking that if/when we go up against a half decent side who could pass and run and strike we would get well and truly hammered, and Germany proved us all right in the end!

They're still the luckiest bastards in international football tournaments though getting away with our 2nd goal! (not that I think it mattered at all to the game)

[grim_tales]

I agree Germany dominated - could have scored 6 or 7 TBH. In the 2nd half they were so good and made it look very easy.