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Post by Panda on May 31, 2018 0:43:17 GMT 1
Two weeks to go until the tournament kicks off in Russia. Will Germany become the first team to retain the title since 1962? Can Brazil win a 6th World Cup? Can England win a game? All questions that will be answered over the course of a month.
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Post by Panda on May 31, 2018 0:48:28 GMT 1
Current odds: 9/2 Brazil 5/1 Germany 13/2 Spain 15/2 France 10/1 Argentina 12/1 Belgium 20/1 England 28/1 Portugal 33/1 Uruguay 33/1 Croatia 50/1 Colombia 66/1 Russia 80/1 Poland 100/1 Denmark 125/1 Mexico 150/1 Switzerland 200/1 Sweden 250/1 Serbia 250/1 Egypt 250/1 Senegal 250/1 Nigeria 300/1 Peru 400/1 Iceland 500/1 Australia 750/1 Japan 750/1 Morocco 750/1 Iran 750/1 South Korea 750/1 Costa Rica 1000/1 Tunisia 2000/1 Panama 2000/1 Saudi Arabia
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Post by Mart!n on May 31, 2018 16:50:45 GMT 1
Looking forward to this thread as always, as I love your topics when it comes to the World Cup or the Euro competitions, as for watching this time round, I don't how much football I'm going to watch as my personal workload has increased since my last participation, I will try when I can, I definitely be watching the England games to see how miserably we fail as always. I think Germany are in there with a chance again, Brazil, France, Spain and probably Belgium (could do with shout as well) as contenders to win it. Personally I love to see a new country lifting the trophy. cough Belgium cough.
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Post by Panda on May 31, 2018 17:23:02 GMT 1
Knockout stages based on current Elo Ratings:
Round 2: Uruguay v Portugal France v Croatia Brazil v Mexico England v Poland Spain v Russia Argentina v Peru Germany v Switzerland Colombia v Belgium
Quarter-finals: Portugal v France Brazil v England Spain v Argentina Germany v Colombia
Semi-finals: France v Brazil Spain v Germany
Final: Brazil v Germany (Brazil win)
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Post by Panda on May 31, 2018 17:29:02 GMT 1
Knockout stages based on current FIFA rankings:
Round 2: Uruguay v Spain France v Croatia Brazil v Mexico Belgium v Colombia Portugal v Egypt Argentina v Peru Germany v Switzerland Poland v England
Quarter-finals: Spain v France Brazil v Belgium Portugal v Argentina Germany v Poland
Semi-finals: France v Brazil Portugal v Germany
Final: Brazil v Germany (Germany win)
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Post by Panda on May 31, 2018 17:36:49 GMT 1
Knockout stages based on rankings at thepowerrank.com
Round 2: Uruguay v Portugal France v Croatia Brazil v Mexico Belgium v Colombia Spain v Egypt Argentina v Denmark Germany v Switzerland Poland v England
Quarter-finals: Portugal v France Brazil v Belgium Spain v Argentina Germany v England
Semi-finals: France v Brazil Argentina v Germany
Final: Brazil v Germany (Germany win)
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Post by Panda on May 31, 2018 17:43:35 GMT 1
Knockout stages based on the latest Guardian World Cup Power Rankings:
Round 2: Uruguay v Portugal France v Argentina Brazil v Mexico Belgium v Colombia Spain v Egypt Nigeria v Peru Germany v Serbia Poland v England
Quarter-finals: Uruguay v France Brazil v Belgium Spain v Nigeria Germany v England
Semi-finals: France v Brazil Spain v Germany
Final: Brazil v Spain (Spain win)
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Post by Panda on May 31, 2018 18:27:00 GMT 1
Knockout stages based on current (and often batshit crazy) rankings at rankfootball.com:
Round 2: Uruguay v Portugal France v Croatia Brazil v Sweden Belgium v Poland Spain v Saudi Arabia Argentina v Denmark Germany v Switzerland Colombia v England
Quarter-finals: Uruguay v France Brazil v Belgium Spain v Argentina Germany v Colombia
Semi-finals: Uruguay v Brazil Spain v Germany
Final: Brazil v Spain (Brazil win)
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Post by Panda on May 31, 2018 23:32:46 GMT 1
Warm-up friendlies:
25/5: Kuwait 1-1 EGYPT
28/5: Turkey 2-1 IRAN SOUTH KOREA 2-0 Honduras PORTUGAL 2-2 TUNISIA NIGERIA 1-1 DR Congo MEXICO 0-0 Wales (in USA) Italy 2-1 SAUDI ARABIA (in Switzerland) FRANCE 2-0 Ireland
29/5: PERU 2-0 Scotland PANAMA 0-0 Northern Ireland ARGENTINA 4-0 Haiti
30/5: JAPAN 0-2 Ghana Austria 1-0 RUSSIA
31/5: MOROCCO 0-0 Ukraine (in Switzerland) Luxembourg 0-0 SENEGAL
1/6: Turkey 2-2 TUNISIA (in Switzerland) SOUTH KOREA 1-3 Bosnia-Herzegovina FRANCE 3-1 Italy Czech Republic 0-4 AUSTRALIA (in Austria) COLOMBIA 0-0 EGYPT (in Italy)
2/6: Austria 2-1 GERMANY BELGIUM 0-0 PORTUGAL ENGLAND 2-1 NIGERIA ICELAND 2-3 Norway MEXICO 1-0 Scotland SWEDEN 0-0 DENMARK
3/6: BRAZIL 2-0 CROATIA (at Anfield) COSTA RICA 3-0 Northern Ireland PERU 3-0 SAUDI ARABIA (in Switzerland) SPAIN 1-1 SWITZERLAND
4/6: MOROCCO 2-1 Slovakia (in Switzerland) SERBIA 0-1 Chile (in Austria)
5/6: RUSSIA 1-1 Turkey
6/6: BELGIUM 3-0 EGYPT Czech Republic 1-0 NIGERIA (in Austria) Norway 1-0 PANAMA
7/6: ENGLAND 2-0 COSTA RICA ICELAND v Ghana PORTUGAL 3-0 Algeria SOUTH KOREA 0-0 Bolivia (in Austria) URUGUAY v Uzbekistan
8/6: CROATIA v SENEGAL GERMANY v SAUDI ARABIA IRAN v Lithuania (in Russia) POLAND v Chile SWITZERLAND v JAPAN
9/6: DENMARK v MEXICO Estonia v MOROCCO FRANCE v United States Hungary v AUSTRALIA Israel v ARGENTINA SERBIA v Bolivia (in Austria) SPAIN v TUNISIA (in Russia) SWEDEN v PERU
10/6: Austria v BRAZIL
11/6: BELGIUM v COSTA RICA SENEGAL v SOUTH KOREA (in Austria)
12/6: JAPAN v Paraguay (in Austria) POLAND v Lithuania
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 1, 2018 10:23:34 GMT 1
So who is going to knock out England? Brazil, Germany, Poland or Colombia?
Germany have eliminated England from the World Cup on 3 occasions: 1970, 1990 and 2010, so in years ending in 0. (I'm only counting actual knockout phases, not group phases which means 2nd round group in 1982 also doesn't count) England have won once: the final of 1966.
Brazil have eliminated England from the World Cup twice, both in years ending in 2, 1962 and 2002. England have never beaten Brazil in a world cup.
Aside from Brazil, all the teams that have knocked out England in a knockout phase are teams we played in 1966. Uruguay knocked us out in 1954 and we met them in the group in 1966. The 3 teams we beat in 1966 in the knockout stage were Argentina (who put us out in 1986 and 1998), Portugal (2006) and (West) Germany.
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Post by Shireblogger on Jun 1, 2018 15:49:54 GMT 1
So who is going to knock out England? Brazil, Germany, Poland or Colombia? None of the above. The answer is: Tunisia, although technically it will be Belgium.
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Post by raliverpool on Jun 1, 2018 20:58:45 GMT 1
Well Tunisia are current stuffing Turkey in a friendly.
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Post by Panda on Jun 5, 2018 3:57:18 GMT 1
TV coverage comparison:
BBC Presenters: Gary Lineker, Dan Walker Pundits: Alan Shearer, Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand, Jurgen Klinsmann, Didier Drogba, Pablo Zabaleta, Phil Neville, Danny Murphy, Jermaine Jenas, Martin Keown, Alex Scott Reporters: Gabby Logan, Jason Mohammed Commentators: Guy Mowbray, Steve Wilson, Jonathan Pearce, Steve Bower, Simon Brotherton, Vicki Sparks Co-commentators: Kevin Kilbane, Mark Lawrenson
ITV Presenters: Mark Pougatch, Jacqui Oatley Pundits: Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs, Roy Keane, Lee Dixon, Ian Wright, Eniola Aluko, Patrice Evra, Henrik Larsson, Martin O'Neill, Slaven Bilic, Mark Clattenburg Reporters: Gabriel Clarke, Seema Jaswal Commentators: Clive Tyldesley, Sam Matterface, Jon Champion, Joe Speight Co-commentators: Glenn Hoddle, Ally McCoist, Iain Dowie
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Post by o on Jun 5, 2018 10:30:22 GMT 1
I shall be recording the 1pm games, and watching/fastforwarding them when I get home around 4pm, recording the 4pm games and getting them watched/fastforwarded before the live game at 7pm. I just hope the 7pm games are not so dull.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 6, 2018 12:41:56 GMT 1
So who is going to knock out England? Brazil, Germany, Poland or Colombia? None of the above. The answer is: Tunisia, although technically it will be Belgium. No, England will get through their group in the following manner. - They will draw their opening game against Tunisia - They will then struggle against Panama but prevail but a single goal. - In the final match, Belgium having won both their games will relax a bit and will draw with England while Tunisia beat Panama in vain. So England will go through 2nd with 2 draws and a scraped win against the weakest team. They'll then fall out in the first knockout round, probably by Poland.
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Post by o on Jun 6, 2018 12:52:25 GMT 1
Anyone know if the newspapers are doing a wallchart with their weekend editions this week? Would like one, but have to be careful which paper I buy, as may have to use disinfectant...
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Post by raliverpool on Jun 6, 2018 18:01:03 GMT 1
Anyone know if the newspapers are doing a wallchart with their weekend editions this week? Would like one, but have to be careful which paper I buy, as may have to use disinfectant... Indeed.
Even though I have won my work's department's Premier League Fantasy Football tournament for the 3rd season running (using the Official Premier League website), I have refused to participate in our World Cup Fantasy Football game as they are using The S*n.
I know FIFA (I suggested using the Official website FF game) are not much better, but they are still much, much better than Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid equivalent of Fox News.
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Post by frag on Jun 6, 2018 23:23:14 GMT 1
Anyone know if the newspapers are doing a wallchart with their weekend editions this week? Would like one, but have to be careful which paper I buy, as may have to use disinfectant... The Observer will have a wallchart on Sunday, and the Guardian on Saturday have a 100-page guide! There will probably also be a wallchart with When Saturday Comes - they're usually a bit more interesting than the newspaper-supplied charts.
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Post by suedehead on Jun 7, 2018 1:34:49 GMT 1
Anyone know if the newspapers are doing a wallchart with their weekend editions this week? Would like one, but have to be careful which paper I buy, as may have to use disinfectant... The Observer will have a wallchart on Sunday, and the Guardian on Saturday have a 100-page guide! There will probably also be a wallchart with When Saturday Comes - they're usually a bit more interesting than the newspaper-supplied charts. When Saturday Comes does indeed have its usual wall chart.
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Post by Panda on Jun 7, 2018 3:28:26 GMT 1
Seeing as Photobucket have stopped being cockwombles, it's time to bring back the Haven World Cup Wall:
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