rewardman
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Post by rewardman on Jun 21, 2014 23:24:14 GMT 1
At this level that was an abysmal call by Mark Rule (New Zealand).
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Post by suedehead on Jun 21, 2014 23:29:52 GMT 1
At this level that was an abysmal call by Mark Rule (New Zealand). It's a good name for an official though
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Post by rewardman on Jun 21, 2014 23:39:50 GMT 1
At this level that was an abysmal call by Mark Rule (New Zealand). It's a good name for an official though I know his brothers - Over and Offside (quite ironic huh?)
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Post by Mart!n on Jun 21, 2014 23:49:04 GMT 1
You watch the second half will be fast and furious, after the dismal first half bar the goal, in places it was sloppy, giving the ball away.
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Post by suedehead on Jun 22, 2014 0:22:08 GMT 1
It's a good name for an official though I know his brothers - Over and Offside (quite ironic huh?) Don't forget his sister Miss Rule.
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Post by suedehead on Jun 22, 2014 0:31:34 GMT 1
I know his brothers - Over and Offside (quite ironic huh?) Don't forget his sister Miss Rule. I should add that she had a choice between becoming a Tory politician or a snooker referee.
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Post by Panda on Jun 22, 2014 0:54:14 GMT 1
1st round, Group F: | 1-0 | |
Pos | Team | Pld | GD | Pts | Q | | 2 | +2 | 6 | 2 | | 2 | +1 | 4 | 3 | | 2 | -1 | 1 | 4 | | 2 | -2 | 0 |
Bosnia's defeat means they are eliminated. Nigeria will qualify with a draw against Argentina. A win will see them top the group. Iran can still qualify if they beat Bosnia and Nigeria lose to Argentina. It's still possible for 2nd place to be decided by the drawing of lots if Iran beat Bosnia by one goal, Nigeria lose to Argentina by one goal and both games have the same scoreline.
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Post by Panda on Jun 22, 2014 0:56:16 GMT 1
Mexico and Nigeria are the only teams yet to concede a goal in this World Cup (though Nigeria did really).
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Post by Panda on Jun 22, 2014 1:00:10 GMT 1
ALG | ARG | | BEL | | BRA | | CHI | COL | CRC | CRO | ECU | | FRA | GER | GHA | GRE | HON | IRN | ITA | CIV | JPN | MEX | NED | NGA | POR | RUS | KOR | | SUI | USA | URU |
Australia | 18/06/2014 | eliminated from Group B
| Spain | 18/06/2014 | eliminated from Group B
| Cameroon | 18/06/2014 | eliminated from Group A
| England | 20/06/2014 | eliminated from Group D
| Bosnia-Herzegovina | 21/06/2014 | eliminated from Group F
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27 teams are left in the World Cup
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Post by rewardman on Jun 22, 2014 4:12:44 GMT 1
If I was a Bosnian I'd be furious this evening. Daylight robbery.
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Post by madmurray on Jun 22, 2014 8:05:31 GMT 1
It has been an enjoyable world cup so far, but my bookies account has taking a bashing with some shock results.
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Post by Shireblogger on Jun 22, 2014 8:15:51 GMT 1
BRITISH FOOTBALL CLUBS WITH PLAYERS AT THE WORLD CUP
There are 128 players in the World Cup squads whose club (on the day the tournament started) was British.
The list below shows all British clubs represented in Brazil, ranked by number of players, and then [in square brackets], number of different nations they play for.
1 Manchester Utd :: 14 [9] 2 Chelsea :: 14 [6] 3 Liverpool :: 12 [6] 4 Arsenal :: 11 [6] 5 Manchester City :: 10 [7] 6 Tottenham :: 7 [5] 7 Southampton :: 6 [5] 8 Everton :: 5 [3] 9= Celtic :: 4 [4] 9= Stoke City :: 4 [4] 11= Fulham :: 4 [3] 11= Newcastle Utd :: 4 [3] 11= Swansea City :: 4 [3] 14= Aston Villa :: 3 [3] 14= QPR :: 3 [3] 16 Wigan :: 3 [2] 17= Cardiff City :: 2 [2] 17= Hull City :: 2 [2] 17= Middlesbrough :: 2 [2] 17= Norwich City :: 2 [2] 17= WBA :: 2 [2] 22= Bolton :: 1 [1] 22= Charlton :: 1 [1] 22= Crystal Palace :: 1 [1] 22= Leicester City :: 1 [1] 22= Nottingham Forest :: 1 [1] 22= Preston :: 1 [1] 22= Sunderland :: 1 [1] 22= Swindon Town :: 1 [1] 22= Watford :: 1 [1] 22= West Ham :: 1 [1]
The highest placed club in the league without representation is Burnley, followed by Derby and then Brighton.
Celtic is the only Scottish club with World Cup players this year.
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Post by Shireblogger on Jun 22, 2014 8:24:09 GMT 1
FOOTBALL CLUBS REPRESENTED AT THE WORLD CUP
And here's the list for all clubs, of which there are 36 with 5 or more players represented.
1 Manchester Utd :: 14 [9] 2 Bayern Munich :: 14 [8] 3 Chelsea :: 14 [6] 4 Barcelona :: 13 [5] 5 Real Madrid :: 12 [7] 6= Liverpool :: 12 [6] 6= Juventus :: 12 [6] 8 Napoli :: 11 [8] 9 Arsenal :: 11 [6] 10 Porto :: 10 [8] 11 Manchester City :: 10 [7] 12 Paris St Germain :: 10 [5] 13 Inter Milan :: 8 [6] 14 AC Milan :: 8 [5] 15 Zenit St Petersburg :: 8 [4] 16 Lazio :: 7 [7] 17 Schalke :: 7 [6] 18= Tottenham :: 7 [5] 18= Wolfsburg :: 7 [5] 20 Atletico Madrid :: 7 [3] 21 Dynamo Moscow :: 7 [2] 22= Southampton :: 6 [5] 22= Galatasary :: 6 [5] 24= Basle :: 6 [3] 24= Borussia Dortmund :: 6 [3] 24= Olympiacos :: 6 [3] 27 CSKA Moscow :: 6 [2] 28= Monaco :: 5 [5] 28= Roma :: 5 [5] 30= Fenerbahce :: 5 [4] 30= Mainz :: 5 [4] 30= Valencia :: 5 [4] 33= Everton :: 5 [3] 33= Benfica :: 5 [3] 35 PAOK Salonika :: 5 [2] 36 Feyenoord :: 5 [1]
Every one of these clubs is European.
Bayer Leverkusen is the only club to have reached the knock-out stages of this years Champions League, which does not feature on this list.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 22, 2014 9:46:17 GMT 1
If the Iranian #16 had put away his chance we might have been able to fool some clubs that hes actually a good player and get a few millions for him.
At it was he struggled to get into the Charlton Athletic team last season and scored just one goal for us (our solitary goal at Leeds that gave us a 1-0 win).
So far these teams have won both their opening games:
Netherlands Chile Costa Rica France Argentina
France are not yet mathematically through but the others are.
Chile have impressed me and for me have an outside chance of winning it.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Jun 22, 2014 15:48:19 GMT 1
few days behind but when fat sam allerdyce can coach james collins and james tompkins to have a fully fit suarez in their back pockets then the argument that our defence isn't "good enough" is a lazy excuse, leaving our two best defenders at home didn't help though
baines is 30 soon and is not an international defender (what was he doing against italy! apart from costing us a point and handing them all 3). arguably playing ashley cole instead of baines alone we would be going into the costa rica game right now on atleast 2 points and if terry (who had the best defensive record in the league was there instead of jagielka we would of already qualified
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Post by Panda on Jun 22, 2014 15:53:42 GMT 1
So basically you're saying our defence isn't good enough.
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Post by Panda on Jun 22, 2014 16:03:35 GMT 1
IMPORTANT NEWS: Hacker the Dog from CBBC is doing the Red Button commentary for Belgium v Russia today.
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Post by madmurray on Jun 22, 2014 16:33:23 GMT 1
IMPORTANT NEWS: Hacker the Dog from CBBC is doing the Red Button commentary for Belgium v Russia today. Cant be any worse than Phil Neville.
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Post by Panda on Jun 22, 2014 16:37:18 GMT 1
Teams that won their first 2 group games at the World Cup and how they ended up doing:
1930: Argentina (runners-up) Uruguay (winners) USA (semi-finals) Yugoslavia (semi-finals)
1950: Spain (4th in final round) Yugoslavia (1st round)
1954: Austria (semi-finals) Hungary (runners-up) Uruguay (semi-finals)
1958: Sweden (runners-up)
1962: Chile (semi-finals) Hungary (quarter-finals)
1966: Argentina (quarter-finals) Portugal (semi-finals) USSR (semi-finals) West Germany (runners-up)
1970: Brazil (winners) Peru (quarter-finals) West Germany (semi-finals)
1974: Poland (2nd round) West Germany (winners)
1978: Argentina (winners) Austria (2nd round) Italy (2nd round)
1982: Austria (2nd round) Belgium (2nd round) Brazil (2nd round) England (2nd round)
1986: Brazil (quarter-finals) Denmark (2nd round)
1990: Belgium (2nd round) Brazil (2nd round) Cameroon (quarter-finals) Czechoslovakia (quarter-finals) Italy (semi-finals) West Germany (winners)
1994: Argentina (2nd round) Belgium (2nd round) Brazil (winners)
1998: Argentina (quarter-finals) Brazil (runners-up) Croatia (semi-finals) France (winners) Nigeria (2nd round) Romania (2nd round)
2002: Brazil (winners) Mexico (2nd round) Spain (quarter-finals)
2006: Argentina (quarter-finals) Brazil (quarter-finals) Ecuador (2nd round) England (quarter-finals) Germany (semi-finals) Netherlands (2nd round) Portugal (semi-finals) Spain (2nd round)
2010: Argentina (quarter-finals) Brazil (quarter-finals) Chile (2nd round) Netherlands (runners-up)
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Post by Panda on Jun 22, 2014 16:55:40 GMT 1
Russia are wearing their rather awesome Yuri Gagarin-inspired away kit today...
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