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MtlAngelus
25 Aug 2008, 16:14
True story.
:p
Now there's only 2 years for the next Soccer World Cup, which is like, 10 times more awesome than the olympics. :cool:

Alien King
25 Aug 2008, 16:20
I disagree, the English football team is crap and incapable of winning anything. Therefore, it loses all awsome value.

SupSuper
25 Aug 2008, 16:23
But football is the only thing our whole country actually cares about enough to get off the couch!

*Splinter*
25 Aug 2008, 16:26
Surely you mean ON the couch, but that wouldnt make sense either

robowurmz
25 Aug 2008, 17:31
Surely you mean ON the couch, but that wouldnt make sense either
No, it's get off the couch. As in "stand up yelling support for the team and insults at the referree".

*Splinter*
25 Aug 2008, 17:58
Ah! Ok then

Diablo vt
25 Aug 2008, 19:30
I disagree, the English football team is crap and incapable of winning anything. Therefore, it loses all awsome value.
I couldn't agree more. :p

Shadowmoon
25 Aug 2008, 20:29
I can't wait until the Fifa World Cup.
I love watching football.
I have to say i don't like Fabio Capello the new coach/boss of England.

MtlAngelus
25 Aug 2008, 21:42
I disagree, the English football team is crap and incapable of winning anything. Therefore, it loses all awsome value.
We've never got further than quarter finals, and that doesn't stop us from going nuts every cup. :p
Also, speaking of 2006's FIFA world cup, the best match was totally Portugal vs Netherlands on the Round of 16. :P
So many yellow cards thrown around (some guy even got 3 yellow cards before getting a red card XD). Epic. :cool:

Liketyspli
25 Aug 2008, 22:08
Netherlands kick ass... yes. I don't really like football because it makes everyoneHolland depressed when we lose a match... :P

Oft99
25 Aug 2008, 23:11
London 2012 looks to be pretty decent despite that really bad logo it's got. The animation they played at the Beijing Olympic closing cermony looked quite awesome (I thought the tube map part was a nice idea). There were some other great performances to go with it and Borris Johnson got to wave the Olympic flag.
What ho, peasants!

Diablo vt
26 Aug 2008, 02:16
It's crazy how fast it's gone though. I enjoyed it very much and England did very well indeed.

Johnnynet
26 Aug 2008, 07:26
I'm glad Argentina beat Brazil and Nigeria for the gold in football. Though Basketball was disappointing for the Argentineans.
Pre-Pick Favorites for the World cup are the following(in general not mine):
Argentina
Brazil
Italy
Spain
Nigeria
England

yakuza
26 Aug 2008, 09:07
I'm glad Argentina beat Brazil and Nigeria for the gold in football. Though Basketball was disappointing for the Argentineans.
Pre-Pick Favorites for the World cup are the following(in general not mine):
Argentina
Brazil
Italy
Spain
Nigeria
England
How is England exactly a favourite for the WC when they couldn't even qualify for the European Cup? It baffles me how they keep getting choosed and hyped up to the max by media ridden sheeps and the hype machine that is skysports (why exactly does Gerrard always get shortlisted for personal awards when he's been nothing short of crap is a good example of the England hype, Mascherano is 10 times the player) when in reality they cannot string a few passes together and are unable to keep up with the times, tactics and technical style of the continent and will rather run like headless chickens on a higher tempo because that's what works for them against similar teams in their national league. Mexico and Ivory Coast per example are much bigger treats.
Nigeria? Don't be fooled just because they managed to reach an Olympic final doesn't mean peanuts. Olympic foobtall is nothing, it's not even recognized by the Fifa. It's just a bunch of teams with under 23 players and two or three older than that. Most important world sides don't even bother fielding a strater team and therefore don't bother to qualify.
I'm sorry to have a dig at your so called general favorite list, but it's really bad.
Spain
Argentina
Brazil
Germany
Italy
Portugal
Holland
Those are the teams that have done something worthwhile in the past two years, either won something, reached a final or played outstanding football, some of them did all three. Except maybe Brazil, and even though they're a pain in the ass to watch nowadays you just can't leave them out.

farazparsa
26 Aug 2008, 09:47
Did anybody watch the beach volleyball? I stumbled accross it while flipping through channels and, man, do they suck, missing serves and all.

super_frea
26 Aug 2008, 11:35
England generally haven't been good since 1996

pilot62
26 Aug 2008, 13:33
OK, about the whole not qualifying for the EC thingy, that wasn't really because we were crap, and IMO, even though I know I might be *slightly* biased by blind patriotism, I thought the team deserved to get there.
We played really well in some friendlies, like when we led Brazil until the last few minutes, and we have some very good players (as well as some stupidly over-hyped ones like Rooney), but when it came to the important games we fell apart because McLaren was a **** manager and Terry's not really the sort of captain who could rally a team round him. Watching those games was painful, because it wasn't that the players weren't any good that we were losing and drawing, but no one on the team seemed to care or put any effort in. We'd play some good football for the first 20 minutes, get a lead, and then just stop and, as Yakuza said, just run round like headless chickens with no tactics whatsoever.
That said, I suppose that alone is a good enough reason to not deserve a place, had we qualified and McLaren kept his job, I'm sure the same would have happened in the EC.
TBH, I don't think much of Capello as a manager, but I'm sure he'll be better than bloody McLaren.

Plasma
26 Aug 2008, 16:38
England generally haven't been good
I fixed your post for you.
*runs*

Shadowmoon
26 Aug 2008, 18:06
For some reason i don't think England will win the cup for a long, long time.
If England get kicked out of the cup like they did when they got hammered by Portugal in a penalty shoot out in 2006, I want Brazil or Italy to win.

yakuza
26 Aug 2008, 18:40
You don't get hammered in penalties, it's pretty much a lottery.

Shadowmoon
26 Aug 2008, 18:45
I'd say they got hammered, because they lost it, and they were kicked out of the World Cup.

yakuza
26 Aug 2008, 18:47
I'd say they got hammered, because they lost it, and they were kicked out of the World Cup.
Isn't "getting hammered" when you lose by quite some marging? Like getting "owned?

Johnnynet
26 Aug 2008, 19:55
Either way, 2010 should be an interesting cup year.

MtlAngelus
26 Aug 2008, 21:23
edit: Woaaahahaa wrong thread.
And Mexico is totally going to win 2010. :cool:

AndrewTaylor
26 Aug 2008, 22:00
I disagree, the English football team is crap and incapable of winning anything. Therefore, it loses all awsome value.
That's not true. They win the toss almost half the time.

Shadowmoon
26 Aug 2008, 22:34
Isn't "getting hammered" when you lose by quite some marging? Like getting "owned?
Yeah your right. I used the wrong word.

Paul.Power
27 Aug 2008, 18:43
England generally haven't been good since 1996We weren't too bad under Sven. At least we kept reaching quarter finals, which pretty much made him the best coach since Bobby Robson.

Kelster23
27 Aug 2008, 18:49
Isn't "getting hammered" when you lose by quite some marging? Like getting "owned?
Nah, it means getting drunk. Take a quote:
A drunk getting arrested is someone who got nailed for being hammered.

yakuza
27 Aug 2008, 18:54
Nah, it means getting drunk. Take a quote:
A drunk getting arrested is someone who got nailed for being hammered.
That's just a different slang meaning AFAIK. Hammered should of originally meant "hit by a hammer". And since hammers hit hard, and being hit hard makes you dizzy and so does getting drunk then someone (presumably a funny guy) came up with the slang.

Paul.Power
27 Aug 2008, 18:54
Nah, it means getting drunk. Take a quote:
A drunk getting arrested is someone who got nailed for being hammered.It means both.
example of usage: "South Africa got hammered by England in the one-day international yesterday"

poninja
28 Aug 2008, 01:39
edit: Woaaahahaa wrong thread.
And Mexico is totally going to win 2010. :cool:
Yeah :cool:
lets celebrate with page 2!

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