WORLD CUP 2014

[An1maL]

Oh, muller just scored. That guy knows how to **** score at a world cup, can't do much about that

[tenks]

If we can beat Ghana, I'm optimistic, and think we have a chance to move out of the knockout stage.

Everyone said Portugal would roll over us in 2010 and they didn't. If we can beat Ghana, I think we have a good shot.

cringing at those comments I made...what was I thinking?



group of death, schmoop of death. #cringingallday

[tenks]

Watching USA vs germany, I gotta say I'm impressed with USA, their passion and physicality, Gonzalez in particular has done some great defending.

USA has some huge potential for the future given their population size and predilection for sports. If soccer takes off over there I predict USA will be serious contenders in 5-10 years. They'll have to make sure the youth training is done properly though, which is where England are sadly lacking. More focus on ball control, technique, movement and vision needed, in the same vein as brazil, spain, holland, germany

they looked like shit tbh...but I guess a 1-0 loss against Germany w/ an advance to next stage is a victory for US.

This reminds me of a quote from white man can't jump:

"Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose."




USAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[DinG]

Group of death???

Not a chance, group b was a far more ridiculous draw. I would also argue that England's group was far tougher, on paper at least.

Germany are a good team. USA are solid and workmanlike, they are difficult to beat but terrible technically. Portugal are a one man show and it does not work, Ronaldo needs to become a better team player for his country and stop his constant whining. Ghana are average.

[tenks]

Group of death???

Not a chance, group b was a far more ridiculous draw. I would also argue that England's group was far tougher, on paper at least.

Germany are a good team. USA are solid and workmanlike, they are difficult to beat but terrible technically. Portugal are a one man show and it does not work, Ronaldo needs to become a better team player for his country and stop his constant whining. Ghana are average.

Pre World Cup rankings had Germany at #2 and Portugal at #4, so yes it was the group of death. No other group came close. Have you not been paying attention to any of the media since the group draw? I'm not the only one saying this.

[Quikey]

Group of death???

Not a chance, group b was a far more ridiculous draw. I would also argue that England's group was far tougher, on paper at least.

Germany are a good team. USA are solid and workmanlike, they are difficult to beat but terrible technically. Portugal are a one man show and it does not work, Ronaldo needs to become a better team player for his country and stop his constant whining. Ghana are average.

<3 you ding.

[DinG]

LOL, In America maybe mate, no one from here was thinking that was the group of death. Fifa rankings mean shit and always have done, they will again come into question after this world cup as you only have to look at some the results so far to know that they were nonsense. Switzerland were ranked 6th fs! England were ranked 10th and Netherlands 15th! You didn't need to study stats to know that the Netherlands were better than either of them before the tournament. Portugal were ranked 4th and scraped through a qualifier against Sweden who were ranked 32nd...

[DinG]

Group of death???

Not a chance, group b was a far more ridiculous draw. I would also argue that England's group was far tougher, on paper at least.

Germany are a good team. USA are solid and workmanlike, they are difficult to beat but terrible technically. Portugal are a one man show and it does not work, Ronaldo needs to become a better team player for his country and stop his constant whining. Ghana are average.

<3 you ding.

No one is mad mate, just amused.

[An1maL]

Yeh "FIFA rankings" have always been a joke... I remember before the last big tournament England were ranked stupidly high, ahead of a shit load of good teams, despite our recent form being terrible. How the **** do they calculate this shit? A few months ago Japan were ranked 3rd in the world (wtf?) and USA were ranked 1st (wat?)

Re:"group of death" rubbish, there were 3 groups that were hyped as that, fairly evenly from what I saw. Pre-tournament I would have said B was the hardest group. Spain kinda flopped but I would still pick spain+holland over germany+portugal any day.

Presently I'm pretty happy with my bet on germany though!

[Polak]

Man I knew England was butt hurt but not that butt hurt.

America's group WAS the group of death, hands down. It's the only group where each team qualified to the final 16 last world cup. Done


Animal, do you know what's the difference between Tea and England?

Tea stays longer in a cup.