World Cup Fever?

[Bube]

With less than a week left until the WC starts, everybody's talking about it here. In the papers, on TV, in school, everywhere. I've even got a few friends who are betting that we will beat Brazil.

Then there's the competitions. Until about 3 weeks ago, there was a competition which got you tickets for the Brazil match. Another one, which ended about a month ago, gave away tickets for the China match.

Of course, the reason for this is because this is only our second time in he cup (the other one was in '54 - a little boy picked our name out of a hat :)).

How's it in your country? Is it on everybdy's mind, or is it a "who cares" situation?


Oh, and there one more thing I have to say. Argentina's star, Ariel Ortega, has been transfered to Fenerbahce (I'm a FB fan, so I just had to say this). If you're intrested, click here (http://www.fenerbahce.org/en/fbHaberOku.asp?ID=744).

[Null]

*scratches head*

world wha?


*imagines it must be something like water polo*

[Ravishing Rick Rude]

Well I'm Cheering For Ireland

altho Roy Keane being sent home because his explosion about the training facilities didn't help our chances.

The Others that could and might win are Argentina, France Italy and England

[gekko]

I'm cheering for Germany and USA.

And sorry Peppy, Germany is gonna waste Ireland (I hope) :D

[Ravishing Rick Rude]

Originally posted by gekko
I'm cheering for Germany and USA.

And sorry Peppy, Germany is gonna waste Ireland (I hope) :D

Aye, just like USA is gonna beat Portugal :P

[Ric]

:uk: Go England :uk:

(We need the England Flag smiley I made for this occasion, wheres it got to?)

USA pah... you dont even know what football is it's that game you call soccer incase you were wondering. Sorry dudes but the USA are crap at football. No offence intended.

Germany... lets watch England whup their arses again shall we.

Good luck againt Brazil Bube, they may have let it slip in recent years but the're still a tough side.

:uk:Footballs coming home:uk:

[Ravishing Rick Rude]

Yea, why are you saying Germany will beat Ireland?

They are a crap side

[gekko]

Originally posted by The Ibrox Fox
Yea, why are you saying Germany will beat Ireland?

Cause I want 'em to. I have faith!

Oh ya, and if you look at FIFA's work rankings, Germany is ahead of Ireland, and Britain. USA is ahead of Ireland for that matter.

[Bube]

Originally posted by Ric

Good luck againt Brazil Bube, they may have let it slip in recent years but the're still a tough side.


Yea, they're tough. I always thought we would beat them, but the last two friendly games against Hong Kong and South Africa lowered my expectations (we beat HK 2-0 and lost 2-0 to SA).

I sure hope we do some good things.

[Ravishing Rick Rude]

Originally posted by gekko


Cause I want 'em to. I have faith!

Oh ya, and if you look at FIFA's work rankings, Germany is ahead of Ireland, and Britain. USA is ahead of Ireland for that matter.


Ok, you think the Fifa Rankings Mean Anything?

USA Doesn't deserve to be near the top 10.

They can't beat any top class european teams, the only reason they are that high is because they beat teams like Fiji and get points.

Fifa Rankings are so useless it's not funny, because if they were true, Ireland would probably be 2nd or 3rd,

They lost once in Qualifying, and it was the last game

[Bube]

We lost to Brazil 2-1 :baby:
We scored the goal at the end of the first half, the 47th minute. But Ronaldo equalised at 52 or something. Then at the 87th min. the ref. gave a penalty to Brazil for a shirt pulling which was 2 yards outside the box. Rivaldo scored, and we lost :baby:

And one thing I have to add, the goal Cameroon scored had gone out of bounds a few passes before the ball reached goal. It should've been a throw in.

[Crono]

Originally posted by Bube


How's it in your country? Is it on everybdy's mind, or is it a "who cares" situation?

Ha, where I live, its definately a "who cares" situation...I dont even think Canada has ever been in the WC, welll maybe a long time ago, but I dont ever remember Canada being in it (I may be wrong)...meh...

[bobcat]

Woo hoo 2-0 to Italy!!

:dance:

[bobcat]

Originally posted by Bube
We lost to Brazil 2-1 :baby:
We scored the goal at the end of the first half, the 47th minute. But Ronaldo equalised at 52 or something. Then at the 87th min. the ref. gave a penalty to Brazil for a shirt pulling which was 2 yards outside the box. Rivaldo scored, and we lost :baby:

And one thing I have to add, the goal Cameroon scored had gone out of bounds a few passes before the ball reached goal. It should've been a throw in. I saw that.

That definently wasn't a penalty.

[Angrist]

:baby:

:distress:

[ed328]

Originally posted by The Ibrox Fox



Ok, you think the Fifa Rankings Mean Anything?

USA Doesn't deserve to be near the top 10.

They can't beat any top class european teams, the only reason they are that high is because they beat teams like Fiji and get points.


I guess Portugal doesn't qualify as a top European team then, huh? :eek: And that's without three starters as well. Maybe you should try to come up with a better example. :p

Originally posted by The Ibrox Fox

Aye, just like USA is gonna beat Portugal :P


You even called it. :D
:usa: :usa: :usa:

[Angrist]

I liked how South Korea won from Poland. They have a Dutch coach, Guus Hiddink. :D

[gekko]

Originally posted by The Ibrox Fox


Aye, just like USA is gonna beat Portugal :P

ROFL!!! This one backfired now didn't it?

[Angrist]

Wow, USA actually won a game of soccer! ;)
I shouldn't be the one to say it, since Holland isn't even in the WC! :D

[Ravishing Rick Rude]

Originally posted by gekko


ROFL!!! This one backfired now didn't it?


well the fact is, if USA go through

they will have to Face Spain or South Africa....... i wouldn't want to faec either.

lol

and if they qualify from that, they will have to face England/Argentina/Sweden or Demark/France or Senegal

[Bube]

Remember what I said about Ortega in the first post? He finally signed, 2 hours ago! Now he's a Fenerbahce player!
I'm sooooo happy!

I'll try to find an English link...

Edit: I found a link. Here it is. (http://www.fenerbahce.org/en/) The picture at the top says it all. But they should add some info in a few minutes.

[Angrist]

Hehe, Japan won. I like seeing weak countries win. :)

[bobcat]

Did ne1 c Italy vs Croatia?

2 disallowed goals for Italy (both which were bloody goals!).

Bloody pisses me off. Stupid refs. There should be a video referee so they can c the play again.

Well Italy lost 2-1. Very unfairly though. Should have DEFINITELY been 3-2

[Angrist]

Originally posted by bobcat
Did ne1 c Italy vs Croatia?

2 disallowed goals for Italy (both which were bloody goals!).

Bloody pisses me off. Stupid refs. There should be a video referee so they can c the play again.

Well Italy lost 2-1. Very unfairly though. Should have DEFINITELY been 3-2 They already have the video thingy, they just don't use it much. They did with stupid Romario's play. :rolleyes:

[Bube]

2 disallowed goals? I thought it was only 1.
I watched about 20 minutes of the game, and I didn't see any goals.

Aaaaand, we finished 1-1 with Costa Rica, conceded a goal in the 86th min. Very unlucky number for us, 86.

[Angrist]

Haha! France is out! :D So funny to see the former world and European champion knocked out! :p :rofl:

Oh yeah I forgot, I like France... :( Oh well, I guess I don't like them with football. :)

[Bond]

*Tries to follow the World Cup*

Yeah, so the United States tied with South Korea I believe. That means they have to beat their next opponent to get a place in whatever or something like that.

[Bube]

I'm glad France is out. I didn't like them much, and I sure like surprises!

I also think USA will beat Poland and advance to the next stage.

[gekko]

Originally posted by Bond
*Tries to follow the World Cup*

Yeah, so the United States tied with South Korea I believe. That means they have to beat their next opponent to get a place in whatever or something like that.

The USA and S. Korea are tied right now with 4 points. S. Korea has to play Portugal, a good team. The USA plays Poland, a team who has yet to win.

If the USA keeps playing like they have, they will move on to the next round and shock the world.

On a side note, Germany is doing damn good too.

[Bube]

Even though it happened yesterday, WE CAME IN SECOND IN THE GROUP!!! It's so great! And only our second time in the Cup!

The match ended at 11:15 in the morning, but people were still celebrating at 4 in the afternoon.

Now we play against Japan.

[The Germanator]

Well, it was ugly, but the U.S has advanced (Thanks South Korea!)
We looked pretty bad against Poland, but since Portugal went down 2 men, Korea took advantage and scored. Even 2 men down Portugal had 3 or 4 really good chances to tie the score and eliminate the U.S, but they didn't and now we take on Mexico. THat's been a good rivalry, so hopefully we'll pull it off.

[Bond]

Well, it's great we (United States) advanced. I believe we face Mexico next, I'm not sure how good they are though. That game is on june 17th by the way. Anyone know which channel will be covering it in the U.S.?

[The Germanator]

Well, I'm sure ESPN or ESPN 2 will carry it live at 2:25 A.M which is it's live time in the U.S I believe. Then ABC will re-broadcast it at a more reasonable time like 1 or 2 P.M o'clock later that day.

[ed328]

It wasn't pretty but the US got the win. Now all we gotta do is figure out how to beat Germany.

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[Bube]

Well, I wanted USA to win, and I really was happy when they did. Now I just hope we beat Japan.

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[Angrist]

Players that play in Dutch teams and are in the WC:
http://www.wk2002.nl/eredivisieOPwk.html

That O'Brien or something plays at Ajax. Ono from Japan plays at Feyenoord. And the coach of S-Korea is Dutch. :D We hope South Korea will win! :D

[bobcat]

Originally posted by Bube
Well, I wanted USA to win, and I really was happy when they did. Now I just hope we beat Japan.

http://btpgames.homestead.com/files/turkey.gif http://btpgames.homestead.com/files/turkey.gif http://btpgames.homestead.com/files/turkey.gif Go Turkey! http://btpgames.homestead.com/files/turkey.gif http://btpgames.homestead.com/files/turkey.gif http://btpgames.homestead.com/files/turkey.gif (<----- Made it myself :)) I would go for Turkey, but I have to go for Japan (seen as I know no Turks, and I work for Japs).

Italy vs Korea tonight. We better do some damage, or I'm gonna do some damage myself................in GTAIII :unsure:

[Bube]

WE BEAT JAPAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!

And they were the hosts! I didn't want to see them lose, but we beat them.

I'm sooooooo happy right now.

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Now it's Senegal.

BTW, we beat Japan 1-0.

[bobcat]

Oh well for Japan :(

But I'm not from Japan. I'm ITALIAN/AUSTRALIAN!

GO ITALY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forzza Italia.

[Angrist]

HAAAAA! In the 18th minute Italy made 1-0. In the 88th (!!!) minute S-Korea made 1-1!! Extension!!! Anything is still possible!!

:D

BTW I'm for Sout Korea. :D Go Hiddink!!! :D

Let's just hope it doesn't come to penalties! :(

[fingersman]

Go South Korea. I want them to win.

HOw come there is no Korean flag??

BTW did you see that Bicycle kick near the end.......I wanted that to score so badly.

WOOOOOOTTTTT they almost scored again. Corner....it missed.

Go korea go.:D


Tooti from Italy is off, red card....this is getting interesting.



GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL. KOREA won. oh yeah. GOALLLLL

*dances jig*

[Angrist]

YEEEEESSSS!! :D:D:D

OH MAN THIS IS GREAT!!! GO HIDDINK!!

lol, one of those banners says "Hiddink for president"! :D

[fingersman]

Originally posted by bobcat
Oh well for Japan :(

But I'm not from Japan. I'm ITALIAN/AUSTRALIAN!

GO ITALY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forzza Italia.

You should have seen an Italian guy's face...it was of total disbelief...he just sat there like.....that didn't just happpen....tell me that didn't just happen.

*remembers that people take their soccer very seriously and pointing and laughing at some one who's team has lost could result in serious bodily injury*:D

Italy is a good team I am sorta sorry that they lost but I wanted Korea to win..and they did. :D

Go Korea go.

[Angrist]

Originally posted by fingersman


You should have seen an Italian guy's face...it was of total disbelief...he just sat there like.....that didn't just happpen....tell me that didn't just happen.The one with the weird thing on his head? :D

Italy didn't play so well those last minutes, S-Korea deserved it! :D

[Bube]

Originally posted by Angrist
The one with the weird thing on his head? :D

If you're talking about Coco, that was a bandage on his head. Another Italian elbowed just beside his eyebrow, and he was on the floor in a bloddy mess. So he got bandaged.

But if you're not talking about Coco, well, I didn't see anybody else with a weird thing on their head.

It seems this WC is very different form the others. Senegal, S.Korea, Turkey, and USA are the biggest surprises. France, Argentina, Portugal and Italy are eliminated. Yup, it really is different from the others.

[bobcat]

*cries*

I CAN believe they lost.

FIFA Officials: Name a team that Italy beat in this world cup?
Other FIFA Officials: Equador
FIFA Officials: Quick, get an Equadorian ref!

Not only coz of this, but seriously soccer does involve quite a bit of luck (for both teams).

I can't believe that was a red for Totti (well yellow, then red).

I'm glad Italy are out. No longer will I have to stress watching another World Cup game. Actually, I won't be watching another World Cup game now that Italy and Japan are out.

Did you see the crowd? I mean it must have been hard for Italy. I dunno. Stupid World Cup.

Now I can relax and get back to GTAIII :cool:

[bobcat]

*****WARNING ACCIDENTAL DOUBLE POST*****

*cries*

I CAN believe they lost.

FIFA Officials: Name a team that Italy beat in this world cup?
Other FIFA Officials: Equador
FIFA Officials: Quick, get an Equadorian ref for ITaly vs Korea!

Seriously though.............how STUPID do u have to be?? I mean why an Equadorian coach? Knowing that Italy beat Equador 2-0.

It's like in the USA v Germany match they get a Mexican coach. THink about it!

Not only coz of this, but seriously soccer does involve quite a bit of luck (for both teams).

I can't believe that was a red for Totti (well yellow, then red).

I'm glad Italy are out. No longer will I have to stress watching another World Cup game. Actually, I won't be watching another World Cup game now that Italy and Japan are out.

Did you see the crowd? I mean it must have been hard for Italy. I dunno. Stupid World Cup.

Now I can relax and get back to GTAIII :cool:

[Joeiss]

ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!!

Oh yeah! At my school, about 98% of the students are Italian. It felt so good to see Italy lose to Kariya today! Oh yeah!

Stupid Eye-talians and all of their pride. We printed off South Kariya flags and were waving them around!

BOO YEAH!

[fingersman]

Originally posted by bobcat




Did you see the crowd? I mean it must have been hard for Italy. I dunno. Stupid World Cup.



Well it is in South Korea...maybe that had something to do with it??:rolleyes:

Yes yes I like how this world cup is going it's unpredictable....which I think is great. :D

[bobcat]

Originally posted by Joeiss
ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!! ITALY LOST!!!

Oh yeah! At my school, about 98% of the students are Italian. It felt so good to see Italy lose to Kariya today! Oh yeah!

Stupid Eye-talians and all of their pride. We printed off South Kariya flags and were waving them around!

BOO YEAH!

I'm ova it now.

Oh well, back to eating my lasagne ;)

[Joeiss]

Originally posted by bobcat


I'm ova it now.

Oh well, back to eating my lasagne ;)

Did you see the footage of the Italians watching the game outside in Rome? It was hillarious. When South Korea scored the winning goal, they were all mad and crying.


God I love it how people get so into sports.

[bobcat]

Originally posted by Joeiss


Did you see the footage of the Italians watching the game outside in Rome? It was hillarious. When South Korea scored the winning goal, they were all mad and crying.


God I love it how people get so into sports.

It's not funny when the team you're supporting loses :mad:

They are passionate about soccer in Italy, well nearly everywhere.

I was so upset when Italy lost. I didn't cry, but I was really annoyed.

Italy was one of the countries that had the worst luck this world cup. The worse refs as well.

[Angrist]

That's what Italians say. The rest of the world says the ref was very good, one of the best.

The offside was false, but that wasn't the ref's fault. And it's not like South Korea didn't deserve to win, they played pretty good, in the end better than Italy.

In every WC there are wrong decisions. Like how Belgium was defeated by Turkey. :unsure:

[bobcat]

Originally posted by Angrist
That's what Italians say. The rest of the world says the ref was very good, one of the best.

The offside was false, but that wasn't the ref's fault. And it's not like South Korea didn't deserve to win, they played pretty good, in the end better than Italy.

In every WC there are wrong decisions. Like how Belgium was defeated by Turkey. :unsure:

No they don't. All I've heard this World Cup from all of my Soccer mates (English, Serbian, Croatian, Australian, Korean, Japanese) is that this has been the worst World Cup when it comes to reffing!

The Argentinans and French said the same thing about the refs as well. France were robbed of a goal, and in a World Cup, these mistakes shouldn't be made. They should have a video referee to replay the point for very close calls.

ANd if a goal is a goal, of course people are gonna complain (especially considering that Italy had 2 disallowed goals when against Croatia, one disallowed against Mexico, and one "potential goal" disallowed against Korea). And a whole lot of bs rulings!

And this happened so much to the Italians, and they were ALL goals. If you looked @ the replays correctly.
It's been said by many (even the non Italians) that Italy has had the worst luck this World Cup when it comes to the refs, and I agree. Especially putting an Equadorian Coach for Korea v Italy. :mad:

And for FIFA to apologise to the world about the ref for Croatia vs Italy (on Italy's behalf), well there's gotta be something wrong. Oh and they kicked that referee out of the World Cup.

Also I think Italy played MUCH better than Korea in the first half. Considering they were IN Korea and the crowd was booing Italy every time they got the ball!

2nd half Korea were desperate so they kept attacking in hope for a goal, and eventually got it. And I think they had the better 2nd half.

PS There are mistakes made, but to Italy, there were FAR too many

[bobcat]

****NEWS JUST TO HAND****

According to my mum, the Equadorian ref for Italy v Korea got kicked outta the World Cup.

That's 2 refs that have been kicked out in 2 of Italy's most crucial games.

Sigh :mad:

[Jin]

Koreans will do anything to win, even if it means cheating. Remember the Olympics? After that Korean short track skater pushed Apollo Onno and got eliminated, Korea threatened to leave the tournament early, even though it was very clear that the Korean skater cheated. It's not that I don't like Koreans, but it's just their mentality. Win, or kill everyone trying.

[Professor S]

Thats the mentality you need tro have to win. I have no regrets about the things I did while playing football and wrestling to win games.

Remember... its only cheating if you get caught:D

[Ric]

*cries lots*

England are out!

*Cries some more*

Those bloody Brazillians :mad2:

*Keeps Crying*

Oh well, we are among the 8 best teams in the worls at least.

Good luck against those Germans to the USA!

*Walks off Crying*

[Angrist]

Haha England got kicked out by Brazil. Sorry but you're so cocky.

Stupid USA can't seem to make any goals against Germany, although they have the ball 80% of the time! :( I want Germany to lose! :D

[gekko]

Brazil sucks, they won't win it (I hope).

But NOOOO!!!!! USA lost :(

But like Arena said before, if the US loses, it'll hurt some pride back home, if Germany loses, it would be devastating. But wouldn't it be even more devastating if we beat them next WC, on their turf? :devil:

Oh well, give the USA credit, they did better than anyone expected, and earned a lot of respect.

Next question, why do the 2 teams i cheer for always meet in single elimination? Err... Well, go Germany!!!!

[bobcat]

Originally posted by gekko
Brazil sucks, they won't win it (I hope).

But NOOOO!!!!! USA lost :(

But like Arena said before, if the US loses, it'll hurt some pride back home, if Germany loses, it would be devastating. But wouldn't it be even more devastating if we beat them next WC, on their turf? :devil:

Oh well, give the USA credit, they did better than anyone expected, and earned a lot of respect.

Next question, why do the 2 teams i cheer for always meet in single elimination? Err... Well, go Germany!!!!

Probably one of the biggest suprises were USA. They have improved so much, and I still think they played better than Germany :(

Oh well, Italy is out...............*cries again*

[Angrist]

It was weird, the Americans had the ball all the time and just couldn't penetrate the German's defense. Once the Germans got the ball they could shoot on the goal within 10 seconds! But the USA also had some nice chances.

And they made a goal, just one German stopped it with his hand!!! I'm sure of it, it was hard to see but from one angle it was obvious!! :unsure:

Can South Korea beat Spain? I think so. Then they'll face Germany. :errr:

[Jin]

Oh well. The US team looked good out there even though they lost. Germany was the better team, but they sure look ugly out there. They aren't entertaining at all, imo. All they do is use their strength and height to kick or head butt the ball as far as they can. Whenever the US team was able to squeeze through the defense there would always be a German to launch it back to midfield with their incredible power.

[Jonbo298]

Good ol' German defense. Its really improved over the past 60 years;) :D

[ed328]

Well, congratulations to South Korea on the win and making history as well.

On another note, it would seem that the referees want South Korea to advance as that's the only thing I can think of to explain some of the calls by the assistant referees.

[bobcat]

Originally posted by ed328
Well, congratulations to South Korea on the win and making history as well.

On another note, it would seem that the referees want South Korea to advance as that's the only thing I can think of to explain some of the calls by the assistant referees.

Well duh :rolleyes:

Spain got the same treatment as Italy.

More disallowed goals. Congratulations to Korea, but this has to be the WORST world cup for refs.

BTW Spain SHOULD HAVE and DESERVED to win over Korea. They had a goal (I only watched the 2nd half).

Bloody unfair again. Backing my statement, it's rigged.

Mark my words, Korea will MOST LIKELY make it to the final!

Good on ITaly complaining about FIFA's performance. They have the right to after what's been done to them. And I hope Spain do the same!

[Angrist]

Yeah!! South Korea won!! Oh man this is good!! :D

Unfortunately I couldn't watch the second half of the game, but entire Holland is excited!! :D

[Bond]

I look at it this way: Soccer (football) is most defiantly not a major sport here. Golf, tennis, basketball, football, hockey, and Nascar are all bigger sports than soccer (football) here. Now being one of the top 8 soccer (football) teams is an amazing feet for any country. Some Country's whose main focus is soccer (football) live to get in the top 4 or 8. Frankly the American public could care less. But, if our main sport was soccer, we would get much farther.

[bobcat]

Originally posted by Angrist
Yeah!! South Korea won!! Oh man this is good!! :D

Unfortunately I couldn't watch the second half of the game, but entire Holland is excited!! :D

It's not really that good. Considering that South Korea have made it through thanks to a MINIMUM of 3 disallowed goals in total that were goals.

Once against Portugal, Italy and Spain.

It makes me sick just thinking about it.

[Revival]

Originally posted by Bond
I look at it this way: Soccer (football) is most defiantly not a major sport here. Golf, tennis, basketball, football, hockey, and Nascar are all bigger sports than soccer (football) here. Now being one of the top 8 soccer (football) teams is an amazing feet for any country. Some Country's whose main focus is soccer (football) live to get in the top 4 or 8. Frankly the American public could care less. But, if our main sport was soccer, we would get much farther.
Yeah.. that's the truth. I tend to think that football [football :sneaky:] is our main sport.. oh vell :unsure:

[Angrist]

Bobcat please stop the griming. You can't do anything about it, and it's not like they didn't deserve it. They were at least as good as Italy and Spain. In some ways...

When's the next match???

[bobcat]

Originally posted by Angrist
Bobcat please stop the griming. You can't do anything about it, and it's not like they didn't deserve it. They were at least as good as Italy and Spain. In some ways...

When's the next match???

Excuse me but when you see the co host nation have AT LEAST 3 disallowed goals which were clear goals against 3 top ranked World Cup soccer teams (Portugal, Italy, Spain), it kinda gets me pissed off. So don't tell me what to do. This is a Sports forum and I'll do as I wish (without offending anyone of course)

***EDIT*** Sorry for the anger there Angrist, didn't mean to take it out on you :beerchug:

I understand I can't do anything about it. There is NO WAY in the world that Korea deserve to be where they are now. They play well, they have improved quite a bit, but it's scaringly unfair how they got there after the Spain, Italy and Portugal matches(especially Spain match!). If anybody watched those matches, they would know what I'm talking about. They've even brought this issue up in the papers/news. It's not something that will be just brushed along and forgotten about.

I'm glad Korea are the first Asian team in history to make it through to the semi's. It's good to see other countries getting better in the World Cup. But it's BS how they got there.

BTW I have nothing against Korea. I am hoping that they win the world cup now. They are the team I would like to win now (now that Senegal is out).

Put it this way. One disallowed goal in a game is fair enough. I would not be complaining. But there have been WAY too many for Korea.

So yeh :burger:

[Angrist]

BTW what dissalowed goal do you mean? The second one, where the ref had wistled and the Spanish players kept on playing?? I haven't seen that 'goal', but I just heard that both 'almost goals' shouldn't have been goals.

If you can understand my weird English... :(

[bobcat]

Originally posted by Angrist
BTW what dissalowed goal do you mean? The second one, where the ref had wistled and the Spanish players kept on playing?? I haven't seen that 'goal', but I just heard that both 'almost goals' shouldn't have been goals.

If you can understand my weird English... :(

You haven't even watched the games :unsure:

:hmm:

The 2nd one was a goal (first should have been).

The ball did not cross the Korea line. It was always in. They even showed closeups of it.

Watch the game (especially the one where the ball was ruled outside of Korea's Goal Line or something).

[Shadow_Link]

Well... Where to begin?

I tipped Italy to win the worldcup... Oh how wrong I was (I support them too). One team I wasn;t surprised by was Turkey. To me, they are THE MOST under rated team in the world. They play lovely, attacking, and might I say flowing football. Their defence isn;t even half bad either. Sas, Basturk and Tuguy are class acts, and I really do think they have a great chance against Brazil, it will be a great match.

Moving onto the Korea-Germany match. Somehow, this all too obvious feeling in my head is tellinng me that Korea will be the ones to progress into the finals. I wonder why :rolleyes:.

I, like others, do believe there was a conspiracy. It wasn't just obvious in the games that Korea had participated in, but also games in which they didn't. Look at Italy's games in their group stage. How many decisions went against them? How many goals disallowed? I believe that 'most unknown' referees were instructed to see the 'best' teams out. But Italy did progress.

Now... onto other things. I well and truy believe that the winner of the Brazil-Turkey match will go onto to win the cup. The reason I predict Turkey to beat Brazil is because Brazil has a suspect defence, or rather, has NO defence, and will ultimately be split open by a much improved Turkey (a team which KEEPS ON improving). It will be a test of 'who can score more', and because Turkey has a much better defence that Brazil, and an attack which could match Brazil's on it's day, they should be able to go through.

[bobcat]

Originally posted by Shadow_Link

I, like others, do believe there was a conspiracy. It wasn't just obvious in the games that Korea had participated in, but also games in which they didn't. Look at Italy's games in their group stage. How many decisions went against them? How many goals disallowed? I believe that 'most unknown' referees were instructed to see the 'best' teams out. But Italy did progress.



I know huh! It's so unfortunate that they Italy got kicked outta the cup this way.

An Equadorian ref in Italy Vs Korea is a STUPID decision. Especially considering the following points:-

1) Italy beat Equador 2-0 in their first game
2) It was his first official World Cup game of reffing!

People might say "It doesn't matter coz refs can't be bias" etc, but the point is it's a STUPID decision. And there were disallowed goals in that game (again) which were goals!

Don't even get me started on Italy Vs Croatia, or Italy Vs Mexico.

That's why I think Korea don't deserve to be where they are at all. They are a good team, but the way they have made it through to the semi's is simply too <insert word here>.

This is the worst World Cup EVER!

[Ric]

I too suspect a little conspiracy, that ball did bloody not cross the line and the linesman had his flag up very late IMO.

But at the end of the day it all went down to penalties and the game then was determined only by the players skill so in the end Korea won with their own player skill not by default.

The question of weather the game should have gone into penalties is still to be decided. It probably should not have done.

[Shadow_Link]

Originally posted by bobcat


I know huh! It's so unfortunate that they Italy got kicked outta the cup this way.

An Equadorian ref in Italy Vs Korea is a STUPID decision. Especially considering the following points:-

1) Italy beat Equador 2-0 in their first game
2) It was his first official World Cup game of reffing!

People might say "It doesn't matter coz refs can't be bias" etc, but the point is it's a STUPID decision. And there were disallowed goals in that game (again) which were goals!

Don't even get me started on Italy Vs Croatia, or Italy Vs Mexico.

That's why I think Korea don't deserve to be where they are at all. They are a good team, but the way they have made it through to the semi's is simply too <insert word here>.

This is the worst World Cup EVER!

Let me guess why you support Italy... Might it be because of a certain Christian Vieri? :D He was born in Australia wasn't he?
Well anyway, he's the best damn striker in the world. Shame he missed an easy chance that could have finished Korea off :D Nevertheless, this conspiracy theory is quite a rampant thought around here. Did anyone know that the wise president of Fifa (I think it's the wise) is a Korean...

[bobcat]

Originally posted by Shadow_Link


Let me guess why you support Italy... Might it be because of a certain Christian Vieri? :D He was born in Australia wasn't he?
Well anyway, he's the best damn striker in the world. Shame he missed an easy chance that could have finished Korea off :D Nevertheless, this conspiracy theory is quite a rampant thought around here. Did anyone know that the wise president of Fifa (I think it's the wise) is a Korean...

Didn't know that. Are you sure?

Well the MAIN reason why I support Italy is because I'm Italian ;)

ANd Vieri is an excellent striker. I don't know wot Italy would do without him.

Yeh he was born in Australia!

[Shadow_Link]

Woah, I never knew you were Italian. You remind me of Vieri :D.

It's kind of funny, apparently, he was a brilliant cricketer, and could have played for the Australian cricket team.

[bobcat]

Originally posted by Shadow_Link
Woah, I never knew you were Italian. You remind me of Vieri :D.

It's kind of funny, apparently, he was a brilliant cricketer, and could have played for the Australian cricket team.

Dunno about his cricketing.

BUt he's a mean striker.

[Angrist]

Oh boy! Almost kick-off!!

GO SOUTH KOREA!!! :D

[Angrist]

Damn. :(

[gekko]

Originally posted by gekko
I'm cheering for Germany and USA.

Haha. I picked a good year for this.

Originally posted by Ric
USA pah... you dont even know what football is it's that game you call soccer incase you were wondering. Sorry dudes but the USA are crap at football. No offence intended.

Germany... lets watch England whup their arses again shall we.

USA made the top 8. Germany is in the finals, England is eliminated.

Originally posted by The Ibrox Fox
Yea, why are you saying Germany will beat Ireland?

They are a crap side

Crap side huh? Who's still in it?

Originally posted by The Ibrox Fox
Ok, you think the Fifa Rankings Mean Anything?

USA Doesn't deserve to be near the top 10.

They can't beat any top class european teams, the only reason they are that high is because they beat teams like Fiji and get points.

Fifa Rankings are so useless it's not funny, because if they were true, Ireland would probably be 2nd or 3rd

USA made top 8, during world cup play. Amazing? No where near top 10?

Ireland? 2nd or 3rd? Try double digits :D

I'm sorry, but that's just funny.

[Bube]

Originally posted by Angrist
In every WC there are wrong decisions. Like how Belgium was defeated by Turkey. :unsure:

When did we beat Belgium? The last time we played was in Euro 2000.

Aaaaaaaannnndddddd we're 3rd in the world!!! I love this game :D !!!

[Drunk Hobbit]

I live in a Korean neighborhood and in every single store window you would see Korean flags. People would wear the flags as capes, wear those red shirts, stick flags on traffic lights, staple mini flags to their hats, cover their cars in flags, etc.

So I went to the main part of town after Korea lost and my friend would yell (very quietly) how Germany beat them and then hide for fear of being beat up. :D

Friends of mine who never once mentioned soccer before are all of the sudden the biggest soccer fans ever...

Crazy ball with the kicking and stuff...