Thread: World Cup 2010

Any thoughts on the games?

Mexico should handle South Africa.
I will say France and Uruguay in a draw.

Biggest sports tournament in the world? Yeah, I'll pay attention.

I have about a turd's worth of knowledge and can not offer any educated opinion on any of it.

South Africa pulls out the Draw :o home field advantage certainly played out. Place was electric

France will comfortably win this one, uraguay are nothing to get too excited about and wouldnt call them a prominent team in the world, they usually struggle to qualify for tournaments these days even if they do have a couple of dangerous strikers (although they are the first ever winners of the tournament against Brazil back in the days of black and white TV).
Spain are the danger team, so many world class players and have an easy qualifying group.

Originally Posted by davegmb

France will comfortably win this one, uraguay are nothing to get too excited about and wouldnt call them a prominent team in the world, they usually struggle to qualify for tournaments these days even if they do have a couple of dangerous strikers (although they are the first ever winners of the tournament against Brazil back in the days of black and white TV).
Spain are the danger team, so many world class players and have an easy qualifying group.

Of course they struggle to make this tournament. When you play in South America it is always a struggle unless you are Brazil and Argentina.

#16 in the world is definitely a strong team. Likelihood to compete against the top teams not so great. But I suspect they will give France a good run for there money.

Spain is a definite threat for sure.

We will find out about uraguay soon enough, but hard to qualify from south america??? Have to disagree there, 4 teams qualify and a 5th plays off against a north american team, brazil and argentina aside you have the likes of peru, chile, venezula, bolivia, ecquador........give me that any day over european qualifying, to mention but a few:

England
Germany
Italy
Spain
Holland
France
Portugal
Croatia
Russia
and it goes on and on and on

True enough.

France hasn't looked to good coming into this tournament, nor have they opened well the last two.

I can't argue the European Qualifying. No doubt it is very difficult.

And no doubt qualifying by playing the 4th seed from CONCACAF is a joke. They are the 16th rank for a reason though. France just squeeked into this Tourney as well remember. Squeaking by ROI.

Yes their form has been poor, but my thinking is that their team is full of premiership stars of high quality, they have to hit it off sooner or later, but you can never tell with the french.

France has come out pretty aggressive so far.

I think IainDaniel could be correct about the draw after all................what do i know, even if it is all france!


Oh hang on red card........

Good tie there by Urineway.

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

Good tie there by Urineway.

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Of course they struggle to make this tournament. When you play in South America it is always a struggle unless you are Brazil and Argentina.

#16 in the world is definitely a strong team. Likelihood to compete against the top teams not so great. But I suspect they will give France a good run for there money.

Spain is a definite threat for sure.

Argentina really struggled to qualify, barely made it. When you have Maradona aka maladroga I suppose coke rubs off the whole team. Anyway they qualified and Maradona said his most popular quote ever "que la sigan chupando!!!" (Which means all doubter keep sucking on it)

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

Biggest sports tournament in the world? Yeah, I'll pay attention.

I have about a turd's worth of knowledge and can not offer any educated opinion on any of it.

I have a similar attitude, although I wouldn't dare call it the biggest sports tournament in the world, considering it's completely irrelevant in the most important sports region in the world.

Go USA!

Though I won't lose sleep over a loss like I did after game three of the NBA Finals.

I have no knowledge of the World Cup.... but England - USA 1-1 tie? I think that was a good thing for us

Soccer is the most popular sport on earth. To think otherwise is to be in denial. I prefer basketball though, its a lot more entertaining.

I'm glad it is the most popular sport in the rest of the world. Just means I don't have to worry about watching it.

They really, really need to. I almost stopped watching the UK/US game because of them.

Originally Posted by HialeahChico305

Soccer is the most popular sport on earth. To think otherwise is to be in denial. I prefer basketball though, its a lot more entertaining.

It may be the most popular sport in other countries, but here in America, it's relegated to WNBA-esque interest.

Originally Posted by DOMS

They really, really need to. I almost stopped watching the UK/US game because of them.

I didn't even have to click on the link. How fucking annoying....

Um wow.... Spain gets shocked by the Swiss.

Swiss chocolate = good
Swiss cheese = bad

France looks nothing like the france of years ago. Mexico spanked that ass.

serbia 1 germany 0, that makes me very happy, all i need now is australia to get spanked by Ghana and ENGLAND to ruin the Algerians and it will be a great weekend.

The US got HOSED today by that commie ref.

We should invade Slovenia...show those assholes who's in charge.

Argentina to win it all, between 11 players they have 150 goals

Originally Posted by cg89

Argentina to win it all, between 11 players they have 150 goals

And to think they barely qualified to the world cup. They are kicking ass.

Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

The US got HOSED today by that commie ref.

We should invade Slovenia...show those assholes who's in charge.

entertaining game it was.....