The great 2010 FIFA World Cup thread

[red indian]

What pisses me off is come the new Premiership season it will be very different. Rooney, Gerrard, Lampard and all the rest of the failed superstars will be visiting various opposition football grounds and getting a great deal of well deserved stick from opposition fans. What will Rooney's and his fellow over paid flops reaction be to this merciless taunting and baiting?....yes, you guessed it, they will "retaliate" by playing out of their skins and banging in goals galore!...then we will have Fergusson, Wenger, Mancini and the rest of the premiership baby sitters giving red faced, petulant TV interviews defending the poor dears, and telling us how their lads "responded to the crowd in the best way possible".

Perhaps this gives us a clue as to how to get the best out of these clowns when they next turn out in an England shirt?

 

[Ichigo]

I want to Dutch to get the W (and play either Germany or Spain for the Cup).

So do I, but it will be hard.

 

[Mephistopheles]

I hope not.

I respect Brazil for being a good soccer team and all, but I can't root for them. It's like rooting for the Yankees.

I want to Dutch to get the W (and play either Germany or Spain for the Cup).

Netherlands - Germany will be the match of the decade, if it happens.

 

[Big_Dogg85]

CAN YOU FUCKING BELIEVE IT? THE DUTCH BEAT BRAZIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OOH-RAH!!!!

 

[Cy/MiG]

Now if only Argentina can fall...

 

[Backstep]

It's not likely, but I'm pulling for Ghana today. Unless it's a big rival, I enjoy cheering for the team that knocked my favorite team from any playoffs.

 

[Mephistopheles]

CAN YOU FUCKING BELIEVE IT? THE DUTCH BEAT BRAZIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OOH-RAH!!!!

We couldn't believe it either, so everybody just got immensly drunk. Huge party everywhere, I think I spent 70 euros on beer during the afternoon 😀

 

[Raphael Sorel]

Well done, Holland.

 

[Cy/MiG]

One step closer to Germany-Holland, AKA 'A Match Too Far' AKA 'Operation Market GOALden'

 

[Mephistopheles]

alright!

If we beat germany in the finals I'm so going to wear a flag around my shoulders and ride around the country

 

[Cy/MiG]

alright!

If we beat germany in the finals I'm so going to wear a flag around my shoulders and ride around the country

You should do it. And in Clogs!

 

[Mephistopheles]

You should do it. And in Clogs!

clogs aren't that comfy on a motorbike 😀

 

[BigJim]

Worryingly, it sounds like you've actually tried riding a motorbike with clogs on, Meph.


Shit, I feel my inner Frankie Boyle struggling to take control of me... Must... fight it.... struggling... losing............................


Query: Why does every nation apart from England refer to the final as "the finals"?

"The finals" refers to the whole of this stage of the tournament from the group stage onward. "The final, singular, is the last match for the trophy.

This is, I suspect, a septic thing. Most Europeans that speak English don't do so because of anything to do with England, I gather they do it because America has made it the necessary language of international commerce. Ergo, they mostly speak the septic, considerably fucked up version of it, including calling the final the finals.

They'll be getting their post put in a bread bin on a stick next, putting up a white picket fence around their garden boundary, pronouncing leisure as "lee-zhure", capitalising vowel sounds in the middle of words that should stay lower case and calling their post the mail.

It's sad, but true.


Argh......... regaining control... Damn it Frankie, get back in your box!

 

[Big_Dogg85]

I'll tell ya we have a decent Dutch contingent in my neck of the woods here in Canada...it would become some kind of beer-filled paradise if they faced Germany in the finals and won. I may actually choose to get drunk for the first time in years if they win it all!!! 😀 😀 😀

 

[Mephistopheles]

an hour to go, time to party

 

[Mephistopheles]

WHOHOO!!!!

1. we won
2. I'm so drunk I have to press backspace more times than I press the letters I want to press

 

[Cy/MiG]

WHOHOO!!!!

1. we won
2. I'm so drunk I have to press backspace more times than I press the letters I want to press

Smoke some Gonja and drink some Absinth for all of us. You Dutch have all the cool legal stuff!

 

[Mephistopheles]

Smoke some Gonja and drink some Absinth for all of us. You Dutch have all the cool legal stuff!

I have some weed around here somewhere...

why don't you move over here and enjoy the freedom you're not allowed to enjoy in the states? (only disadvantage is that travelling to nest will cost you $1k, but apart from that, it's great)

 

[rhiannon]

alright!

If we beat germany in the finals I'm so going to wear a flag around my shoulders and ride around the country

Naked? 😀 I don't care about the clogs! 🙂

 

[Mephistopheles]

Naked? 😀 I don't care about the clogs! 🙂

well, I could ofcourse always ride around naked in front of your door wearing nothing but that flag 😀

 

[Liu Kang]

Netherlands vs Spain should be spectacular.

 

[Ichigo]

Good luck, Netherlands. You'll need it, because Spain is a tricky opponent.

 

[AmishTickler]

Paul the Octopus picked Spain to beat the Netherlands. Paul hasn't been wrong yet.

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[Cy/MiG]

well, I could ofcourse always ride around naked in front of your door wearing nothing but that flag 😀

One more thing to do if you do take that ride: you should blast 'Hocus Pocus' by Focus the whole way.

 

[milagros317]

It's over. Spain 1, Netherlands 0 in extra time.