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The O&O 2014 World Cup Thread

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  • #52
    martinn123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭martinn123


    muffler wrote: »
    That would have been Norman, bite your legs, Hunter :)

    I'm always getting my Norman's mixed up.


  • #53
    martinn123
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    muffler wrote: »
    That would have been Norman, bite your legs, Hunter :)

    Proof, you are right



  • #54
    martinn123
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    It's coming home,

    It's coming home,

    It's coming..........

    Footballs coming home..........

    http://2lus4qv.jpg


  • #55
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Wonder what will happen to Suarez. I don't wish harm on anyone but he needs a very long ban to get his head in order. After all kids watch these games. What kind of example is that? You should properly cook your food before you eat it!

    If Uruguay play Germany he can have a shoulder of Lahm


  • #56
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I feel sorry for Japan, but Colombia did play very well. Should they have brought out their oul'fella in goal, or not? Two ways of looking at it - (a) they gave the poor oul divil a last crack at the World Cup, and (b) they disrespected their opponents. Class discussion will ensue....


  • #57
    martinn123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭martinn123


    Right, oldwans & oldfellas, As we move into the knockout stages, I really think we need to up our Game on this Thread.

    There has'nt been a barbaque yet, or indeed a decent bottle of Wine, or even a decent Beer.

    Let's face it at our age we can't compare with the Soccer Forum, where they know what's going on, on the Gambling Forum, where they make loads of cash off every Game.

    So I propose everyone chooses a team to support, and we expect expert analysis, before, during, and after your Team plays, regarding the wine available in that region, or the pleasures of their beach front properties, or maybe their local beers, maybe their weather, or whatever you like.pictures of local Hotties, will be welcome.

    I would propose an open draw, perhaps supervised by a Mod, but as this thread is an oversight, I think it might be rigged.

    Anyone with me?

    Maybe I should be off to Beer Guts, and receding Hairlines, or whatever it's called.

    Come on Russia.


  • #58
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Hmmmmmm, I'm thinking, I'm thinking. A lot of favourites are gone. World Cup is having a day off today. Hmmmmmmm!


  • #59
    martinn123
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    OK, to help you all, this is a list of the fixtures to come

    https://www.google.ie/?gws_rd=ssl#q=world+cup+knockout+fixtures&safe=active

    maybe someone with a titter of wit, could produce a list where we can substitute usernames for the Country, ( help me out here ).


  • #60
    Red Hare
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    i bags Germany ! - if possible


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  • #61
    Rubecula
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    Hmmmm OK I will go for Belgium


  • #62
    Jellybaby1
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    Netherlands for me, so. Can't analyse to save my life, but can comment, right or wrong! :D Himself says now that I've picked them, I've put a curse on them!


  • #63
    martinn123
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    Right, my youngest lives there so I'll go for Switzerland


  • #64
    muffler
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    Brazil or Germany for me. Neither have shown their real capabilities (yet) but given home advantage I'll stick with the host nation.


  • #65
    Layinghen
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    Argentina please. Based solely on the fact I like a nice bottle of Malbec wine:D


  • #66
    martinn123
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    Right, so that's 6 teams taken care of.

    So for tonight we need someone to take on Muffler, and to represent Chile at 5pm

    Then at 9pm we have both Columbia, and Uruguay available.

    Here's Mark Lawrenson's predictions to help with your choices

    http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28050115


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  • #67
    muffler
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    For today's games I'm with Brazil obviously and Columbia to beat Uruguay :)


  • #68
    Jellybaby1
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    30 seconds in and its already tit for tat!


  • #69
    martinn123
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    Howard Webb, May not make it off the field, if that disallowed goal, from Hulk, makes a difference.


  • #70
    martinn123
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    Tough luck on Chile.


  • #71
    muffler
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    martinn123 wrote: »
    Tough luck on Uruguay.
    Why, what happened?


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  • #72
    Rubecula
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    muffler wrote: »
    Why, what happened?

    They had Suarez in the squad lol


  • #73
    martinn123
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    muffler wrote: »
    Why, what happened?

    I had a premonition.


  • #74
    Jellybaby1
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    Very elegant Colombian goal there! Omigosh, aren't tempers running high? Tsk, tsk!


  • #75
    muffler
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    martinn123 wrote: »
    I had a premonition.
    I think you had more than that :D


  • #76
    BrensBenz
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    Is it over yet?


  • #77
    Jellybaby1
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    Might be. We got distracted by Sky Arts1, they had The Shadows farewell tour on, luvvely! Ten years ago now though so they will have a few more grey hairs at this stage. Who won the match then? :o


  • #78
    Jellybaby1
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    The heat is bad for us Dutch, we seem to be faffing about a bit. I wish they'd attack, attack, attack, a wee bit more. Also seems to be a couple of can can dancers there, with high kicks!! :(


  • #79
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    WOO HOO!!!!! About flamin' time too, I've me nails bit off!!!!!


  • #80
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Well, we hid our light under a bushel for the first half but played a much better second half. The Mexicans came out all barrels blazing from start to finish, and I have to bow to them, they were the better side. Still, my side won! WOO-HOO! The penno was deserved, but not as deserved as it was made to look! My analysis is over. Leave me out of the next lot. I can't take the tension. :eek:


  • #81
    Rubecula
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    Great way to win (penalty in the 94th min) but an awful way to lose.


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  • #82
    Jellybaby1
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    Have to agree with you there Rube. I'm sorry Mexico are out, they deserve to be there, rotten luck. Wish I had put money on me own team now! :)


  • #83
    martinn123
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    That was exciting.

    Right we have a few teams in need of support,
    Tonight's 9 pm game is CRC v GRE, any takers

    Tomorrow we have, FRAv NGA, anyone?

    Then it's the big one, me v layinghen at 5pm

    But the way, after the footie last night I switched over to Glastonbury, on BBC.

    Metalica, absolutely nailed it, great rendition of " Whiskey in the jar " for example. Brilliant.

    Think tonight it's Dolly Parton, might give it a miss.


  • #84
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    martinn123 wrote: »
    ....Then it's the big one, me v layinghen at 5pm

    But the way, after the footie last night I switched over to Glastonbury, on BBC.

    Metalica, absolutely nailed it, great rendition of " Whiskey in the jar " for example. Brilliant.

    Think tonight it's Dolly Parton, might give it a miss.

    You and hen at 5pm? Interesting.

    I like Dolly Parton's music..........don't think I want to watch though. We are still rockin' from the Shadows, always loved them, Apache, Nimrod, Foot Tapper, good oul' Hank's gitaaaar!


  • #85
    Rubecula
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    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    You and hen at 5pm? Interesting.

    I like Dolly Parton's music..........don't think I want to watch though. We are still rockin' from the Shadows, always loved them, Apache, Nimrod, Foot Tapper, good oul' Hank's gitaaaar!

    Funny you should say that I play them every week on me show Jelly. :cool:

    Not ever played any metallica that I recall. :p


  • #86
    martinn123
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    Rubecula wrote: »

    Not ever played any metallica that I recall. :p

    Have this one on me,



  • #87
    martinn123
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    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Is it over yet?

    No. There's another two weeks of excitement.

    have you picked a Team yet?


  • #88
    Layinghen
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    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    You and hen at 5pm? Interesting.

    I like Dolly Parton's music..........don't think I want to watch though. We are still rockin' from the Shadows, always loved them, Apache, Nimrod, Foot Tapper, good oul' Hank's gitaaaar!

    Yes indeed something to look forward to.

    Unfortunately no libations for me as I cheer on my Argentinian friends as I have been in hospital since last week. Maybe I'll get them to put a little something extra in the drip :p

    Thankfully I have a nice room to myself with my own telly so I can cheer away to my hearts content.

    Wonder would they allow stick a few posters of Messi up on the wall?


  • #89
    martinn123
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    OK so in an attempt to fill in the remaining available Supporter Places

    and in the light of the obvious success of this Thread, being on the 5th page so far,

    I think the Moderators, ( who despite their disinterest, I think are keeping a sneaky eye on us ) should pick a Team, each, if for no other reason than to take one for the Team, should their pick be rubbish.


  • #90
    martinn123
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    So I can offer for your support

    30/6 5PM

    France
    v
    Nigeria

    30/6 9PM

    Germany, supported by Red Hare
    v
    Algeria

    and

    1/7 9PM

    Belgium, supported by Rubecula
    v
    USA.


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  • #91
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Erm, speaking of RUBBISH....:mad: Yeugghhh!

    martinn123 wrote: »


  • #92
    martinn123
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    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Erm, speaking of RUBBISH....:mad: Yeugghhh!

    Sorry, maybe you prefer this version,



  • #93
    martinn123
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    Opodolopodous:eek:


  • #94
    BrensBenz
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    martinn123 wrote: »
    No. There's another two weeks of excitement.

    have you picked a Team yet?

    Soccer / Excitement?
    Military / Intelligence?
    Slightly / Shocked?

    Watched a great team last night: Robert Plant's team playing at Glastonbury! I'm not effluent enough to have Sky Art so I missed the Shads but I'm sure they'll make it onto Freesat soon.

    You know that sound you make when you imitate Hank's guitar playing Wonderful Land or Apache? How do you spell it? "Daru Daru" with your nostrils pinched? Or maybe "Dow Dow?"

    Don't know if this got a mention before but Roy Hodgson? England boss? said something like: "If we had scored, it would have been a great match". Words fail me!

    Flicking through the channels tonight I saw lots of intelligentia discussing today's World Cup Diving Tournament....again. Elsewhere, Dawly Port'n was making that metallic noise she calls singing and the Women's Grunting Championships from Wimbledon were also on......so, thoroughly depressed, I went to bed early, with some nice warm cocoa, clutching my signed photograph of Victor Meldrew, hoping that tomorrow would be better.


  • #95
    martinn123
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    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Soccer / Excitement?
    Military / Intelligence?
    Slightly / Shocked?

    Watched a great team last night: Robert Plant's team playing at Glastonbury! I'm not effluent enough to have Sky Art so I missed the Shads but I'm sure they'll make it onto Freesat soon.

    You know that sound you make when you imitate Hank's guitar playing Wonderful Land or Apache? How do you spell it? "Daru Daru" with your nostrils pinched? Or maybe "Dow Dow?"

    Don't know if this got a mention before but Roy Hodgson? England boss? said something like: "If we had scored, it would have been a great match". Words fail me!

    Flicking through the channels tonight I saw lots of intelligentia discussing today's World Cup Diving Tournament....again. Elsewhere, Dawly Port'n was making that metallic noise she calls singing and the Women's Grunting Championships from Wimbledon were also on......so, thoroughly depressed, I went to bed early, with some nice warm cocoa, clutching my signed photograph of Victor Meldrew, hoping that tomorrow would be better.

    It Won't be, so pick a fecking Team.:P


  • #96
    BrensBenz
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    martinn123 wrote: »
    It Won't be, so pick a fecking Team.:P

    Pick a diving team? In Benny Hill shorts? Walking out, holding hands with little boys? Hand clapping over their heads? Goalie shouting at everyone if he has to make a save? The offside rule? Pretending to know the words of their national anthems? Skidding on their knees if they score? Same old saymo, over and over.

    Oh alright! Come on ye Faroe Islands!


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  • #97
    Jellybaby1
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    Nope Martinn, not that one, classic though it is. This one... (holy moly, would y'look at the time, night John-Boy!)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyQ-tScuzwM


  • #98
    Red Hare
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    Sorry Layinghen to hear you are in hospital. Speedy recovery to you and best of luck to Argentina!


  • #99
    Red Hare
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    " Thomas Müller, who is currently positioned to become the first two-time winner of the Golden Boot with four goals thus far, seems less interested in his own goal-scoring prowess to date than what lays before him.
    “Now and then, one drops in front of my foot,” said Müller of his game-winning goal against the USA. “but I am doing nothing but training like a madman.”"

    6034073


  • #100
    muffler
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    Robben was at his best (diving) yesterday. I posted a few pics up in posts 2740 & 2741 here


  • #101
    looksee
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    martinn123 wrote: »
    OK so in an attempt to fill in the remaining available Supporter Places

    and in the light of the obvious success of this Thread, being on the 5th page so far,

    I think the Moderators, ( who despite their disinterest, I think are keeping a sneaky eye on us ) should pick a Team, each, if for no other reason than to take one for the Team, should their pick be rubbish.

    I am only keeping an eye on this thread as I had to sign in blood to swear that I would check every single updated post and review and report on whether it was safe to be disseminated. You can't imagine how stressful this job is at times. So what teams are left to pick from?


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