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2014 After Hours World Cup oh my god i can't wait for a month of football thread.

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  • #102
    Specialun
    Registered Users Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    DildoFaggins wrote: »
    On paper France have an easy ride to the Quarters but I can't see them winning given how much the struggled in qualifying,as for Holland I don't think people realize how big of a loss Van Der Vaart and Strootman are that's the 2 best midfielders on that team gone,along with no Van der Wiel.

    Holland wont come out of their group. Fact

    I think France are underestimated. Griezmann is in great form


  • #103
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Boooooooooo
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    The World Cup starts in 5 days time.

    Will you be watching?

    Home/Pub/Mates pad.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Will you be giving out about the soaps not being shown at their usual times?

    N/A - hate soaps.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Is football the scourge of the English?

    Yes and no.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Are we all barstooling ****?

    I literally prefer anywhere except the barstool.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Who'll have the best looking supporters this time round?

    Italy or Brazil.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Will Uncle Woy's lions not even make it from the group stages?

    Hopefully not.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Will Ronaldo or Messi finally do it(durty) on the big stage?

    They'll both play to their usual standard of excellence, but they'll be bringing no trophy home.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Will Luis Suarez continue to be a rascist cannibalistic cheat?

    Without a doubt.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Will Ze Germans win again.

    Hopefully not.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Can Brazil win on home soil or will Spain continue to pass the ball 49485 times per game?

    I want Brazil to win, but then again, I always want Brazil to win the World Cup. But if not Brazil? Then Italy are always my number two.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Will Wayne Rooney kick someone in the face?

    Probably himself.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    No Roy Keane on ITV, do you care?

    Couldn't care less.

    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Have you put any bets on?

    Nope.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Will Belgium be the dark horses?

    Racist.

    Super-Rush wrote: »
    ITV, BBC or Bill and the lads?

    All the above.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Who ate all the pies?

    Most likely me.
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Is LizT the greatest mod ever?

    Apparently so, but in order to verify these claims. I will need pictures, with or without latex.

    Super-Rush wrote: »
    This thread and all the other soccerball tournament threads are for the lighter side of the game. If you have access to the soccer forum then thats the place for discussing the offside rule.

    Nazi.


  • #104
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,354 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    List of pubs with no TV please. It'd be nice to know which pubs those of us who don't give a polite shyte about soccerballball can enjoy a sensible pint in. There used to be a forum like that.

    I'll kick it off:

    The Cobblestone
    The Long Hall.
    Grogan's
    Hughes'
    Mulligan (The Grocer)

    Feel free to expand...


  • #105
    mathie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,102 ✭✭✭mathie


    Boooooooooo
    endacl wrote: »
    List of pubs with no TV please. It'd be nice to know which pubs those of us who don't give a polite shyte about soccerballball can enjoy a sensible pint in. There used to be a forum like that.

    I'll kick it off:

    The Cobblestone
    The Long Hall.
    Grogan's
    Hughes'
    Mulligan (The Grocer)

    Feel free to expand...

    I often find the best place to discuss the exact opposite of what people are talking about in a thread to be that thread itself.


  • #106
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,354 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    mathie wrote: »
    I often find the best place to discuss the exact opposite of what people are talking about in a thread to be that thread itself.

    Funny that! :D


  • #107
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I


  • #108
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Boooooooooo
    Should now say 3 days but you get the gist :P

    https://vine.co/v/MDHIweFpdaz


  • #109
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    1) PICK 8 TEAMS YOU THINK WILL REACH QUARTER FINAL STAGE.
    Brazil, Spain, Colombia, Italy,France, Argentina, Germany, Belgium.
    2) PICK THE WINNING TEAM.
    Argentina
    3) PICK WORST TEAM IN COMPETITION.
    Australia
    4) PICK TOP GOAL SCORING PLAYER.
    Messi
    5) HOW MANY GOALS WILL BE SCORED IN ENTIRE COMPETITION?
    162
    6) HOW MANY RED CARDS IN ENTIRE COMPETITION?
    18
    7) TOP GOAL SCORING TEAM.
    Argentina
    8) PLAYER WHO SCORES LAST GOAL (penalty shootout not included).
    Lukas Podolski
    9) WHAT STAGE WILL ENGLAND GO OUT OF COMPETITION?
    Quarter Finals


  • #110
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,530 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Not everyone is as excited about the soccer-ball world series.

    Spare a thought for what they will go through

    from http://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/22osn0/as_the_fifa_world_cup_approaches_the_antifootball/?limit=500

    Firstly, imagine every time within a day that football is mentioned by someone else. Secondly, replace it with something that you don't want to hear about every day. Say... Archaeology. Then, think about how an average day would pan out.

    So, you awaken to the clock radio. It's 7AM. Just as you awaken, it's time for the news and archaeology already. Not news and other historical investigations, like library restorations or museum openings (unless there's another event happening), but just the news and archaelogy. Malaysian plane is still missing. Pistorius is still on trial. New dig announced in Giza. Ancient Mayan temple discovered. Exciting stuff.

    Time for a bite to eat over the morning TV. More news. More archaeology. Yes, you are aware of what is up with the missing plane. Fine. Now the archaeology in video format. Video of people dusting off some skulls and bits of pottery. All well and good, but archaeology isn't your thing. It would be nice to hear about something else. Even when it isn't archaeology season, the media follow noted archaeologists. They drive fast cars, have sex with beautiful women, advertise fragrances, and sometimes they go to nightclubs and act in the worst possible way. Scandals erupt as the tabloids follow these new celebrities when they're not searching the past for answers. It is entirely possible you can recite the names of certain researchers, even if you don't pay attention to archaeology. You don't know what transfer season is, but you know that someone was transferred to a dig in Peru for a sum of money that could fund the London Underground for two whole days.

    Out of the car at 8:55 and into work. What are the colleagues talking about, I wonder? Oh, Jones dropped a 3,890 year old pot and smashed it? What a useless wánker! Someone should do something unpleasant to him. And don't even ask about the unfortunate incident in Athens two years ago - you'll be there all day! Breaking a pillar like that! We don't talk about that here, mate. What? You don't want to discuss the finer points of the prevalence of phallic imagery in Pompeii? Is there something wrong with you?

    The drive home from work. Every thirty minutes, no matter the station, someone mentions the archaeology. Best sit in silence. Drive past a huge billboard with a black and white picture of a rakishly handsome archaeologist draped over an impossibly beautiful woman. He's winking at you. Trowel in his left hand, supermodel in the right. Jurassic, by Calvin Klein.

    And now the pub. A nice pub with a beer garden. Posters in the windows. LIVE EXCAVATION AT THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS! All of it on a huge TV with the volume up too loud. Drunken people yelling at the screen. "SEND IT FOR CARBON DATING, YOU USELESS ****!" "WHAT ARE YOU ON, MATE? DUST THE ANCIENT MEDALLION GENTLY! SMELTING METHODS OF THE TIME PRODUCED VERY SOFT AND IMPURE METALS EASILY PRONE TO DISFIGURATION!" All this from two men out of a crowd of twenty. One lousy drunken idiot and his chum ruin the image of other archaeology fans. Carbon dating report from the lab updates on TV, read by a man employed because they've been following the beautiful science since they were a boy. The drunk chimes in again. "WHAT PHARAOH'S REIGN DID YOU SAY? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS SAYS ABOUT THE UNDERPINNINGS OF OUR THEORY OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF 4TH BC EGYPT? GET IN, MATE!" A cheer cascades through the building and you can only wonder why.

    Best go home and avoid anyone who might be drinking and singing. You once met a disagreeable chap who threatened to beat you up because you didn't watch the archaeology. "Not a late paleolithic era supporter are you? Think you're better than me? I'll f**king have you, you scrawny ****!"

    To bed. To repeat the cycle tomorrow. The inescapable, inevitability that wherever you go, someone, somewhere, is just dying to talk to you about the archaeology.


  • #111
    tonymantana
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭tonymantana


    1) PICK 8 TEAMS YOU THINK WILL REACH QUARTER FINAL STAGE. brazil,argentina,spain,colombia,,uruguay,france,germany,belgium
    2) PICK THE WINNING TEAM.germany
    3) PICK WORST TEAM IN COMPETITION.ghana
    4) PICK TOP GOAL SCORING PLAYER.L Suarez
    5) HOW MANY GOALS WILL BE SCORED IN ENTIRE COMPETITION?192
    6) HOW MANY RED CARDS IN ENTIRE COMPETITION?22
    7) TOP GOAL SCORING TEAM. argentina
    8) PLAYER WHO SCORES LAST GOAL: T Muller
    9) WHAT STAGE WILL ENGLAND GO OUT OF COMPETITION?Group stage


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  • #112
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,906 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Boooooooooo
    1) PICK 8 TEAMS YOU THINK WILL REACH QUARTER FINAL STAGE. Brazil, Spain, Uruguay, Italy, France, Argentina, Germany, Portugal
    2) PICK THE WINNING TEAM Brazil
    3) PICK WORST TEAM IN COMPETITION. Iran
    4) PICK TOP GOAL SCORING PLAYER. Suaraz
    5) HOW MANY GOALS WILL BE SCORED IN ENTIRE COMPETITION? 150
    6) HOW MANY RED CARDS IN ENTIRE COMPETITION? 8
    7) TOP GOAL SCORING TEAM. Brazil
    8) PLAYER WHO SCORES LAST GOAL (penalty shootout not included) Neymar
    9) WHAT STAGE WILL ENGLAND GO OUT OF COMPETITION? Group stage


  • #113
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,476 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    I'm annoyed that there is no 3D coverage of the games.


  • #114
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Boooooooooo
    endacl wrote: »
    List of pubs with no TV please. It'd be nice to know which pubs those of us who don't give a polite shyte about soccerballball can enjoy a sensible pint in. There used to be a forum like that.

    I'll kick it off:

    The Cobblestone
    The Long Hall.
    Grogan's
    Hughes'
    Mulligan (The Grocer)

    Feel free to expand...

    You don't like football. We get it.

    Nobody cares


  • #115
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Boooooooooo
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79vdlEcWxvM


  • #116
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    1) PICK 8 TEAMS YOU THINK WILL REACH QUARTER FINAL STAGE. Russia, Portugal, Germany, Italy, England, Argentina, Spain, Brazil
    2) PICK THE WINNING TEAM Italy
    3) PICK WORST TEAM IN COMPETITION. Australia
    4) PICK TOP GOAL SCORING PLAYER. Mario Balotelli
    5) HOW MANY GOALS WILL BE SCORED IN ENTIRE COMPETITION? 171
    6) HOW MANY RED CARDS IN ENTIRE COMPETITION? 6
    7) TOP GOAL SCORING TEAM. Italy
    8) PLAYER WHO SCORES LAST GOAL (penalty shootout not included) Andrea Pirlo
    9) WHAT STAGE WILL ENGLAND GO OUT OF COMPETITION? Quarter Finals

    I like football :)


  • #117
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Boooooooooo
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy1rumvo9xc


  • #118
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Boooooooooo
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuKNNdrmqns


  • #119
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Boooooooooo
    DENNIS BERGKAMP
    DENNIS BERGKAMP
    DENNIS BERGKAMP
    ARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH !


  • #120
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Only 2 sleeps to go and I have not got a decent wall chart yet. Anyone know where I can get one?


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  • #121
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Boooooooooo
    I don't buy newspapers but I'd say they all have them this week. Have a nosey through them all in the newsagents and pick your favourite.


  • #122
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Boooooooooo
    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    DENNIS BERGKAMP
    DENNIS BERGKAMP
    DENNIS BERGKAMP
    ARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH !

    Love that commentary :D
    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    Only 2 sleeps to go and I have not got a decent wall chart yet. Anyone know where I can get one?

    You can prob download loads of them in Excel format on the net too


  • #123
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Boooooooooo
    Courtesy of a poster in the soccer forum

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=90779861&postcount=1006


  • #124
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Boooooooooo
    Trigger Happy wrote: »
    Only 2 sleeps to go and I have not got a decent wall chart yet. Anyone know where I can get one?

    Currently have about 3. Although one of them is going up in the Staff Room at work along with the Work Sweepstake Pick List.


  • #125
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,105 ✭✭✭amacca


    Boooooooooo
    Super-Rush wrote: »
    The World Cup starts in 5 days time.

    Will you be watching?

    ooohhhh yes yes yes yes yes!

    Will you be giving out about the soaps not being shown at their usual times?

    Hell no - I give not one **** about soaps…any soaps…except maybe crime drama soaps that come in the form or short to medium length series (so not soaps really - One of the best soaps I've watched recently is Hannibal.

    Is football the scourge of the English?

    If it is its not nearly scourgey enough methinks my good man…what what eh!

    Are we all barstooling ****?

    I couldn't possibly speak for everyone but I most certainly am…I feel I could hold my own in the company of many of most establishments barstooliest ****

    Who'll have the best looking supporters this time round?

    It won't be Ireland, It probably wouldn't have been anyway….most of em would look like made up versions of staunton in 94…melted red faces with the occasional stunner thrown in…………probably brazil..im assuming the director will have a find hotties in the brazil supporters to boost vicarious sex tourism in subsequent years brief

    Will Uncle Woy's lions not even make it from the group stages?

    Wouldn't it be better if they did? I don't like them leaving too early….the heartbreak potential just isn't high enough

    Will Ronaldo or Messi finally do it(durty) on the big stage?

    I think Messi will…Id rather have him on my team than Ronaldo any day…he does it all the time

    Will Luis Suarez continue to be a rascist cannibalistic cheat?

    Why stop now, I wouldn't **** with a winning formula anyway

    Will Ze Germans win again.

    I don't think so

    Can Brazil win on home soil or will Spain continue to pass the ball 49485 times per game?

    Yes and yes

    Will Wayne Rooney kick someone in the face?

    Hopefully…that would cap Zidanes headbutt and that dutch midfielder who went around blatantly kicking everybody instead of playing at one of the last major tournaments I watched (can't remember his name - played for Man city - looked a bit like a robot)

    No Roy Keane on ITV, do you care?

    I dont

    Who will have the best looking fans this time round?

    Whats the difference between fans and supporters?

    Have you put any bets on?

    Yes

    Will Belgium be the dark horses?

    I don't know, possibly, I think too much is being made of their chances…hopefully they won't melt when they start playing - I feel the danger of melting is not one thats been fully appreciated by most european teams

    ITV, BBC or Bill and the lads?

    Bill and the lads and possibly a couple of quick switches to BBC when the inevitable crushing defeat for Engerland arrives - mainly cos I like to watch whatever pundit was overoptimistic back pedal furiously while silky smooth Lineker essentially does a much more refined version of what Joe Duffy does for us for his viewers before going home to roll around great piles of cash and walkers crisps surrounded by many beautiful well groomed women (or at least thats how I imagine it goes/will go)

    Who ate all the pies?

    It certainly wasn't me, great way to get the common man to eat offal and god knows what if you ask me

    Is LizT the greatest mod ever?

    Who, is she good lookin?

    .

    1


  • #126
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    kfallon wrote: »
    Courtesy of a poster in the soccer forum

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=90779861&postcount=1006

    That's the one for me!
    They do poster printing here at work so bringing this down to them now!


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  • #127
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Boooooooooo
    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    DENNIS BERGKAMP
    DENNIS BERGKAMP
    DENNIS BERGKAMP
    ARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH !

    I love in that clip where the commentator says Fraaaank De Booooor in that comically Dutch accent.

    Just in case people don't know WTF we're on about:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZkCFoqSBs


  • #128
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Boooooooooo
    anncoates wrote: »
    I love in that clip where the commentator says Fraaaank De Booooor in that comically Dutch accent.

    Just in case people don't know WTF we're on about:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZkCFoqSBs

    Anyone know who scored that goal, didn't quite catch the name in Commentary???

    :P


  • #129
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Boooooooooo
    kfallon wrote: »
    Anyone know who scored that goal, didn't quite catch the name in Commentary???

    :P

    It actually sounds like he's bashing one out. The last Dennis Bergkamp sounds almost post-coital, like he's about to light a smoke. :pac:


  • #130
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Boooooooooo
    1 more sleep :D


  • #131
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Boooooooooo
    This is the current state of the pitch for England v Italy Saturday Evening.

    media_xll_2304995.jpg

    :eek:


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  • #132
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    This is pretty neat.

    The World Cup of Everything Else


  • #133
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    MOTD World Cup Preview on now on BBC 1


  • #134
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Boooooooooo
    Kerrydude1981 wrote: »
    MOTD World Cup Preview on now on BBC 1

    Theres no way they got a studio over looking Copacabana Beach.

    :D


  • #135
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Boooooooooo
    Do I need to adjust the colour on my TV or does Alan Shearer look jaundice?


  • #136
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Boooooooooo
    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Do I need to adjust the colour on my TV or does Alan Shearer look jaundice?

    Notsure, but Gary looks like he has been either applying the ronseal, or hitting the sunbeds.


  • #137
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    LizT.
    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Notsure, but Gary looks like he has been either applying the ronseal, or hitting the sunbeds.

    Rio looks fairly browned aswell.


  • #138
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Boooooooooo
    wazky wrote: »
    Rio looks fairly browned aswell.

    <Er erm. Unsure of being serious or sarcastic>


  • #139
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Boooooooooo
    Has to be the make up or lighting. Rio looks odd too.

    Really great football conversation we have going on here lol


  • #140
    Umadbrah?
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭Umadbrah?


    lol someone snap a pic of jaundice Alan Shearer, I cant watch the TV


  • #141
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    kfallon wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy1rumvo9xc
    Ugghh that's rubbish!

    If I wanted a crappy animation with a paper-thin plot designed to sell me overpriced merchandise I'd have watched Cars instead.

    Should have just re-made this classic from 1998


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  • #142
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Boooooooooo
    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    This is the current state of the pitch for England v Italy Saturday Evening.

    media_xll_2304995.jpg

    :eek:

    The groundsman is saying it won't be much better on Saturday either.

    Are all the other pitches ready?


  • #143
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,105 ✭✭✭amacca


    Boooooooooo
    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    This is the current state of the pitch for England v Italy Saturday Evening.

    media_xll_2304995.jpg

    :eek:

    hmmm no amount of watering will sort that out in time


  • #144
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    LizT.
    It's finally here :)


  • #145
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,277 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    We love GAAAAAAAAAA
    Anyone but the english waheeeey


  • #146
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Boooooooooo
    Gonna go with the Germans to beat Argentina in final.

    Belgium to make semis.

    England to confound expectations but still go out in second round.

    Golden boot will be Suarez or Dzeko.


  • #147
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Boooooooooo
    After last nights jaundice overdose, I think I'll be watching the matches on RTE. It was too distracting.

    Anyone who still wants to enter our competition, you have until 9pm tonight.


  • #148
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    LizT.
    Having seen some of the preview last night, I think the state of the pitches will suit the South American teams. I expect them to advance in strength, with Brazil and Argentina playing for it all. Messi to outshine Neymar, with Higuain top scorer.


  • #149
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Boooooooooo
    Pictures of the pitch for England and Italy game are disgraceful for a marquee tournament if true.


  • #150
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Boooooooooo
    anncoates wrote: »
    Pictures of the pitch for England and Italy game are disgraceful for a marquee tournament if true.

    Was mentioned on the BBC preview last night as well. Too much fertiliser used apparently.

    Also, the ground for tonights match. Its the first time its being used to its full capacity. With all the talk of concerns of grounds not being finished in time, I can see one or two incidents occuring.


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  • #151
    wazky
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    LizT.
    The media always seem to play up the negatives before a tournament.

    Look at the coverage before South Africa, everyone attending would be mugged/murdered and there was little actual violence.

    Or Euro 2012, the Polish hooligans would be on the rampage against foreign supporters, well there was some trouble that was mostly between the hooligans themselves.


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