FIFA World Cup 2010

[Skybird]

That was fun to watch. I like to see an African team continuing, however I hoped the US would win. Football is on the rise in the US, ABC broadcasted live it was said on German TV, and sems to cover the championship several hours per day. And although the American system for youth work is so very different from that in europe and south america (sports is only a means to secure access to college/university), and specialisation starts so late that when talents reach that age of around 22 years most talented players already have left for clubs in overseas, the US is showing a constant climb to the upper ranks of international football since quite some time now. They even became 2nd in the Confed Cup, losing only to Brazil. In two or three world championships they could very well advance amongst the final 4, maybe. but in 8 or 12 years, that will be a new generation of players then. Much depends on the progress made not being lost during the transition.

I also see them comparing to German teams regarding one quality, and that is that they compensate individual technical deficits of their players by team spirit and fighting spirit. That is a bonus during tournaments.

US team fought with all it was capable of, until the end. The team could return home with heads held up. And that is more than Italy and France can do.

for the audience in South Africa it is great that one African team still is playing. and who knows: Uruguay is the slightly better team, but they are not invincible and are not beyond reach of Ghana's abilities.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

for the audience in South Africa it is great that one African team still is playing. and who knows: Uruguay is the slightly better team, but they are not invincible and are not beyond reach of Ghana's abilities.

Are you a gambling man....a man that likes the odd wager?

[Rhodes]

DO not know if thid if this is real video but so funny: http://clix.expresso.pt/video-com-a-...os-7-0=f590390

Ahahahahhahahahahhahahahah:har :

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Are you a gambling man....a man that likes the odd wager?

No, Uruguay is the favourite. But they are not so totally superior that it is beyond Ghana's chances to score the surprise. That Urugay loses to Ghana is absolutely possible, though the Urus' chances are better.

[nikimcbee]

May the schwartz be wichya Team England.

[papa_smurf]

Unlucky USA, you should be proud of last night match. Well played, and you didn't give in right till the end of extra time.

Now, for us English, it would be nice to beat zee Germans. But that could mean a possible encounter with Argentina, unless Mexico shock the world and beat the, in my opinion, the current favourites.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

No, Uruguay is the favourite. But they are not so totally superior that it is beyond Ghana's chances to score the surprise. That Urugay loses to Ghana is absolutely possible, though the Urus' chances are better.

Yep, anything can happen in a 90 minute game but I can't see Ghana coming out tops.

I honestly think England would have beaten them last night and most definitely if Shrek ever decides to take his finger out.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

Unlucky USA, you should be proud of last night match. Well played, and you didn't give in right till the end of extra time.

Now, for us English, it would be nice to beat zee Germans. But that could mean a possible encounter with Argentina, unless Mexico shock the world and beat the, in my opinion, the current favourites.

I strongly fancy Argentina to be the eventual winners but still have memories of putting my money on Brazil early doors four year ago at 13/4....a great price I thought at the time

[Skybird]

Alone amongst enemies, or: a skinny German, a British blond, a drunk Scotsman and plenty of angry Englishmen.

A German madman's memories of how he watched - and survived - the championship meeting between germany and England 1998 - in an English pub.

His excuse was - of course you already figured it out - that he did it for love.

Sorry, only in German:
http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/...r_feinden.html

How did the writer call hooliganism: "recreational violence"...?

[Jimbuna]

Bugga!....I'd have liked to have read that article

[Skybird]

You miss something, it really made me chuckling a couple of times.

Here is John le Carée's explanation why you Englishmen really should start to learn German! Delivered in a speech at Whitgift School in Croydon, three days ago.


http://www.faz.net/s/RubD3A1C56FC2F1...~Scontent.html

from: http://thinkgerman.org.uk/?show_arch...4&itemoffset=4

[Foxtrot]

Jerries will lose the war of Africa 2010 again like they lost in 1943, and they have no Desert Fox this time.

Arise, German eagle, arise!

[Oberon]

PIATs at the ready lads.

Just joking, good luck to both teams.

And we really need to change our national anthem...perhaps to Rule Britannia...or the Archers Deutschlandlied just sounds so much nicer and stirring than the run down batteries of God Save the Queen.

[nikimcbee]

Okay, so what's the bet here? If England wins, Skybird has to eat a pound of black pudding and sing "Hail Britannia?"


and if the Huns win...

Buna dresses in Lederhosen and sings "Des Samma Mia"