the world cup

[Heno]

a thread for all things world cup

i hope the dutch win and rvp gets highest scorer among other fetishes

[Rusco]

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[Amandistan]

I don't get it but i guess it's cultural. I used to play soccer (American equivalent of European football) as a kid and enjoyed it. however,  never got the appeal of watching athletic events. I do get that it's fun to play though and brings people together. but so does music and art.

[Pol]

Putting all the other issues aside and concentrating on the football.
Yes very excited about world cup kinda doesn't feel the same this time though maybe that is just me.
On the two posts so far yes the Dutch definitely deserve a World cup can't quite see them doing this time but knows.
Football is very much a tribal thing that brings people together from the same area to support their team.
Personally i always tend to support the Germans and Brazil come world cup time,maybe next time Scotland lol.
On last night's game. It certainly wasn't the greatest game ever, I felt Brazil were a bit lucky and the score line flattered them, the referee certainly didn't have the best game and the Croatian keeper was poor.

[Shush]

Sorry but,,

COME ON ENGLAND !!!!

[Rusco]

I don't expect a lot from Ronaldo. Never actually did, and there must be other excellent guys too in the team.

...And now if we'd take a look at what/where/when was it last time... 

[Master Ray]

OK... going off-topic slightly...

Things I don't understand about my country anymore (no 525...)

Put up a whole bunch of St George flags on every available surface you can find during the few weeks of The World Cup... YAY! Let's celebrate! EN-GER-LAND!!!!

Put up any St George flags anywhere during the other 47 months between now and the next World cup... YOU'RE A BLOODY BIG RACIST!!!


I've never put up a flag the whole of my life, but I'd love to get an explanation for this one, 'En-Ger-Land'... anyone?

But, yeah, come on En-Ger-Land I suppose... don't like football at all but I hope you footy fans have a great time...

[Shush]

a thread for all things world cup

i hope the dutch win and rvp gets highest scorer among other fetishes

You must be very pleased Heno, great Dutch performance. Holland always my tournament B team. RVp was great, reminded me of bergkamp a couple of world cups ago

[Shush]

OK... going off-topic slightly...

Things I don't understand about my country anymore (no 525...)

Put up a whole bunch of St George flags on every available surface you can find during the few weeks of The World Cup... YAY! Let's celebrate! EN-GER-LAND!!!!

Put up any St George flags anywhere during the other 47 months between now and the next World cup... YOU'RE A BLOODY BIG RACIST!!!


I've never put up a flag the whole of my life, but I'd love to get an explanation for this one, 'En-Ger-Land'... anyone?

But, yeah, come on En-Ger-Land I suppose... don't like football at all but I hope you footy fans have a great time...

Think you state the problem there yourself old chap. People don't want to fly the flag any other time in England for fear of being called nationalistic or racist, which is crazy. Go to the States, the flag is everywhere, many continental counties also.
Personally, I do not attach much national, or international importance to the World Cup. It is not a competition to find out which is the best country on Earth. If it were, then Brazil would be the top of the pile through overall success - yet even as this tournament is on, people riot in the streets against the mass inequality in the country which has terrible poverty, so this  cannot be the case.

Its just football. If you dunna like footy, don't watch it. Personally, I am not a football fan, but do enjoy the World Cup nd the Euro Cup. Otherwise, I do not have a team. 

[Bunny]

I absolutely despise the way companies flog their wares on the back of the world cup by getting football related themes into advertising. It cheapens the whole thing.
On another note, I tried to get my eldest who has no interest in football to pick the score for Spain v Holland. He went for 2-1. Ive since pointed out to him there is a very good chance he may be outwitted by an octopus given the same task 

[Rusco]

Spain vs. Holland and a score 2-1 would have been quite realistic estimation. But oh man, what an unbelievable game and result was it yesterday! In all measures Spain very good, but now Dutch just could score in at a crucial time. (Just wondering if some might had a lottery about the score, the multiplier may have been quite interesting.) 

[Bunny]

Yeah. I dont think anyone realistically saw that result coming. But I suppose the end of the Spanish era is inevitable.

[Anna Woman von NRW]

Nope - didn't see that result coming. Spain must be in a state of shock today. But it might be premature to say it's all over for them, I guess this one was always gonna' fire the Dutch up that little bit more. It will be interesting to see how the Spanish team come back in their next match.

In-ger-land : I reckon its the result of poor genes and poor education !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And no, I don't understand the flag thing either, how can it be ok for 4 weeks in every 4 years but for the rest of the time it's stolen by the far right? And how come (as someone else noted) it seems to be a peculiarly English thing? Not even British just English - there's a dissertation in that somewhere for a Culture student.

Still as long as the game tonight is a good one and we actually play some decent football it don't really matter for now. I reckon we'll get a 1-1.

Think the Belgians might be a good outside shot for an underdog to do well

[Danny]

People don't want to fly the flag any other time in England for fear of being called nationalistic or racist, which is crazy. Go to the States, the flag is everywhere, many continental counties also.

Personally, I'm very happy people only fly flags at big sporting events over here, the US ARE a very nationalistic country and nationalism is something I have little to no time for, and as such I'm very happy that (with few exceptions) on the whole in Europe we are not.

Relating to the world cup, as a football fan it doesn't excite me, I call it 'football for people who don't like football'; a big sponsor-dominated circus geared at making as much money as possible through merchandise, TV rights and all that and a chance for a lot of people who normally don't give a shit about football to fill the pubs and act like they're the biggest experts on the matter ever (while mostly proving they don't even know the basics of the game the minute they open their mouth).

Don't get me wrong, I'll watch the matches when I can (so far I've watched all 4 of them and rather unsurprisingly I've been quite impressed by Holland yesterday); but I don't really care who wins - in terms of excitement give me club football any day, that's what my passion and loyalty is reserved to

[franconian]

Hello comrades from England!

Im am german and i hope England will win tonight against these #! ##? from Italy
I grant England everything but a victory against Germany

Hail to England!