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If you're talking about travesty of England football songs - how about Christie's new effort? Flogging a dead 'orse ain't in it... :td:

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Own goal in 3 mins by gamarra!

Haha, I don't really like football, but this is fun :D

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Lol! Half time 1-0 to England!

Own goal was so funny... :P

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England 1 - Paraguay 0

Well done England, well played, apart form appearing mega tired near the end... Mind you it was 30'C out there!

What was with the refferee though? Not letting water onto the pitch? Almost everything went Paraguays way in the second half as well.
Noi complaints though :D Keep it up for the rest of the WC :D

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I have a World Cup Chart in Excel that i downloaded, and i need to fill in the Scores from games

Germany vs Costa Rica
Poland vs Ecuador

Trouble is the BBC website is un avaliable for me at the moment, so i cant check.

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Germany 4 V Costa Rica 2

Poland 0 V Ecuador 2

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ahh cheers :tu:

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No probs, now send me that Excel table :p

Can't find it, i know it was posted here somewhere.

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so much for the world cup being about beautiful football. all the trindad players want to kick is swedish footballers

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IS the game on now? Don't tell me i'm missing it :(

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ITV. not missing much. i guess i'll have to remind you argentina v cote d'ivoire is on at 8 :)

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Found it here - http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...2&postcount=36

Also, i think i'll skip the current match and watch the Argies instead :D

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you're making some good choices today

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Here ya go Druchii :)

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Haha, thanks :D

MadGamer, i got one, about 2 posts ago, still repping you for it though :D

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Damm, its the bloody size of the file, thats why i had to zip it.

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Here's what I use... http://www.nationwide.co.uk/NR/rdonl.../wallchart.pdf

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Heh, just crashed Fx clicking on that... Right Click Save as for me then...

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Getting less than 2kbps here...

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The ref was bang out of order and as for penalising Peter Crouch everytime!:td: :mad:
England got through it as they always do But what was Sven thinking by taking Michael Owen off!? :Yikes: :Yikes: :disturbd: :Yikes:

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Owen in my view is still not 100% fit. He took him off to rest him i guess, besides after that amount of the match we still had chances to score if need be.

To be honest we played down to there standards. Not good IMO.

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:) So, How could we score with nobody up front to be fed by Crouch.?
I also think thay Gerrard and Lampard had a pretty crap game as well. Not taking anything away from the boys. 3 points is 3 points.:D :)

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Does Robinson win a prize for hitting the TV screen?

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:rofl: Now that was good :D

Shouldn't the ball have come back to us? As it was something in the way that shouldn't have been?

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The T&T v Sweden is a great result for England!!! :hyper:

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It was a drop ball. England didn't contest it and Paraguay kept the ball. For some reason players never seem to contest drop balls anymore.

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Elaborate?

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Maybe they got used to be overruled all the time and get bored of arguing over something so small?
Or, they don't realise they can contest it :p

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Cause now we're the only team in the group to have won a match... I thought Sweden would win both today and against Paraguay, and I thought we'd win on Friday against T&T, which would mean we'd go into the match against Sweden battling for 1st or 2nd, to decide whether we play Germany in the next round or play the runner-up of Group A.

So, to cut a long story short, if we win on Friday, then draw against Sweden that makes us the group winners :)

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Heh, yeah, sorry i just looked at the groups again to refresh my mind, i can see it all now.

To me that says T&T are a very strong team, having held together with 10 men against Sweden.

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saviola scoring after me slagging him off was predictable :)

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Hey, if we win on Friday, we must be through to the semis automatically - let's face it, if we beat T & T in the scheduled game on Thursday, we must get extra points for playing 24 hours later ;)

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what odds would anyone give me on essien getting sent off?

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I thought it would update who won the leagues to winner A player runner up B, it does not.

also can I unprotect it to update it?

if so how?

ik

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holland remind me of germany, only better - great going forward but have 3 absolute crap defenders

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i think the only person on the pitch worse than landzaart was the ref

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not to worry, I found one the exact same but this time it updates everything correctly.

ik

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good to see the "underdogs" are still putting in a fight.

in fact, the only team that fear anyone seems to be england

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Good to see referee, Markus Merk, booking Koroman for brandishing an invisible yellow card. I thought fifa was clamping down on this ? I've seen it happen a few times already, but Merk is the only one (so far) to adhere to the fifa directive.

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I am enjoying the Italy- Ghana game, very open for Italians

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it has been very good. i think ghana have done really well. i'm fed up of hearing about the "swerce" on the new ball and i'm so glad cannavaro is playing crap

glad, but not surprised

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so now according to motson, if an opponent is offside, you are allowed to go up to another player and foul him

just retire already you senile old...

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ghana should be down to 9 men by now. of course, you wouldn't expect anything less from a team with essien as a star player.

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Essien was immense in the first half, just the sort of performance he has not been turning in for Chelsea this season, sadly when he faded so did any chance of Ghana winning.

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The USA might as well book their tickets back home. Nice! :tu: :D

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Well, it's not actually according to Motty - the laws of the game state that play stops when the referee sees the linesmans flag raised. As such, technically, there was no foul :shrug:

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to be fair, if the whistle had blown and then one player punched another would the ref intervene??

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He could be sent off for bringing the game into disrepute.

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exactly, so what has the fact that the whistle has blown got to do with anything?

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Depends if the player deserved it ;)

As I understand it, play had technically stopped, so no infringement of the rules has taken place. In this instance, while it was a bad tackle, there was nothing the ref could do about it - the Ghanaian didn't necessarily know that the linesman had his flag raised. Doesn't excuse the tackle, but them's the breaks :shrug:

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True, whistle or no whistle, a bad tackle can still be carded

cant it?

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Well, I was wondering about this as well. So apparently, there are rules which apply during play, and rule that apply when play is stopped. You can get a card for disagreeing with the ref, taking your shirt off, throwing the ball away, hitting/kicking an opponent when play is stopped, but not for a tackle? Seems a bit strange to me...

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Yeah (in fact, you can be 'sent off' after the final whistle has been blown). However, in this case, you'd have to argue the the Ghanaian player showed intent to injure the Italian - in my opinion, there was no intent; it was just that he was crap at tackling.

As I said, as the last man, technically, he should have been sent off but, again technically, there was no infringement of the rules as play had stopped :shrug:

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It is strange, no question about it. However, if play has stopped, there is no foul - again, IMO, there was no particular intent, it was just a poor tackle...

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Your not a LAYYYYYYDY referee are you?? Cant make a decision :D

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Well, you've hit the nail on the head there - what if the ref was checking his lippy in his mirror when the foul was committed :D

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If the ref deemed it dangerous play then he should have shown a card regardless of the whistle. But as the player was off-side there is no sending off for being the last man.

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Actually, I can't remember - was he even booked?

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I don't think anyone is saying he should have been sent off for taking down the last man. We're saying the tackle itself was worth sending off.

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Nope...

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No he got away with it

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It was, but the rules are the rules :shrug:

Ta muchly :)

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Again. it's not a case of 'getting away with it' - no rule was broken.

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I'm not so sure, the laws of the game, when discussing fouls and serious foul play, dont make any reference to the ball being in play.

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As John Motson said ' justice was served in the end' as it was the same two players involved in the second goal

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Well, as I understand it, it wasn't a case of the ball not being in play, it was more that play had actually stopped.

I could be wrong of course, but that's just how I see it :)

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see, when you are my age, avoiding all this stress can only be good :)

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Commentators...you are supposed to be in Germany to work. Please, instead of sunbathing between games, try and learn how to pronounce the names of players.

It's PIRLO not PEARLO!
ROSICKY only has ONE S!

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Oh and another thing. We all know how you like to talk about the Africans and their "naive" defending. But I don't really think it applies to a player who now plays in Italy, after spending 10 years at Bayern Munich where he won the European Cup.

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It could be worse apparently the American commentators think we are Germany and spend a lot of their time discussing 'Martin Rooney' :confused:

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If you have the red and white face paint, and England get knocked out..

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Up there with whoever was doing the Czech Republic - USA game.

He said something along the lines of "USA have never beaten european opponents in the World Cup." Then the next thing he said was "they will be hoping to get off to a good start as they did in 2002 where they beat Portugal 3-2"

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I see France are ready to surrender...

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well technically it was a "lunging tackle" from behind - a sending off offense, and happened after the whistle was blown - which is also a red card

the refs have been very poor so far

not forgetting pearce constantly changing how he said mahdavikia's name.

to me, the worst one is how they say gabriel heinze's surname, especially considering it's a german name(his father is german)

we don't say "hainz' baked beans" do we?

but i agree, commentator's being unable to say a player's name winds me up far more than it should :D

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:D

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Apparently Freddie Ljunberg is desperate to beat England so the English players at Arsenal don't take the mick out of him :erm: :confused: with Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole possibly leaving that only leaves young Theo and he needs a note from his mum before he can play.

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I see those "efficient" Germans, just played the South Korea national anthem "twice", instead of the Togo anthem straight after the Korean one.

Vorsprung Durch Technik :D

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some good stuff being said :)

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Got these from another site...

Canadian TV
Anchorman: "Craig, how will the Mexican goalkeeper approach this game, given what's happened to him this week?"
Craig Forrest: "Well, his father passed away on Thursday - he'll be disappointed with that..."


From ABC's commentary of England v Paraguay:
"There can't be a player with more hype surrounding them than Michael Beckham."

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What was the name of that lunatic Mexican(?) goalkeeper again that jumped up and backheeled the ball instead of just catching a, a few world cups ago?

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That was Rene Higuita, matey :)

EDIT: Oh, and he was Columbian :)

DOUBLE EDIT: Oh, and I think the scorpion kick was against England in a friendly :)

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Sure was...

http://www.thefa.com/England/SeniorT...ombia_1995.htm

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That's the one ;) Classic, but complete lunacy.

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Out of interest, Higuita actually went on some sort of celebrity makeover show in Columbia, which has radically altered his appearance. Apologies for the really small picture, but it was only one I could find that showed him before and after :)

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Didn't he also end up in Jail after being caught working for Pablo Escobar.

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Yup:

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Commentating classic from Dion Dublin during the Mexico v Iran game on Radio 5 Live, "He's given away a corner, but rather a corner than a goal at this stage." :disturbd: :D

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I think he also played midfield for his club team when the mood took him :erm:

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In Columbia footballers are even known to get killed for scoring an own goal in the world cup... :rolleyes:

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Thats if Rooney doesn`t break his Bloody Legs first!!!!!!!!! :D

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Yes I saw that, getting a little carried away me thinks ;)

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Let Rooney play, He`s gagging to get out there.

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Anyone know who the commentator was for the French/Switzerland game earlier today? The northern bloke, I mean.

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Mick McCarthy

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Cheers, Shadow Demon

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Well the Brazil Croatia game was a right let down. Been looking forward to this game all week :(

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same here, I was really dissapointed, and I had Ronaldo as my captain in my dream team, thinking he would bag a good few in the tournament, but now I am not so sure.......

ik

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They looked like one of those Masters teams, I hardly think the likes of Argentina will be worried by Roberto Carlos and Cafu weezing their way up and down the wings Emerson kicking everything including his team mates and the barrel up front, admitedly they may worry about Adriano, Ronhaldinho and Kaka.

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might as well have been in a cave for all the WC i seen in the past few days but got back last night to watch the Brasil game and thought it was a great game and so unlucky on Croatia that they didn't get a draw.. Brasil didn't look like a great side but unlike England think they will show signs of improvement

as for commentators can we please get rid of David Pleat.. he can't pronounce anything correctly and everything he says is a load of rubbish too

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Agree with you about Pleat.

I wish someone would tell that bloke, there is more than one team in Manchester. Everytime I hear him refer to Man U, he simply calls them "Manchester". :rolleyes:

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Here's another one..

'Klose scored three in Germany's opening game of the last World Cup and he's done exactly the same this time, scoring two

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He sounds really Irish doesn't he!

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I get this feeling that Sven is on a mission to prove the FA wrong and that if England win The World Cup, two fingers will follow.......
Check out the News conference: Sven-Goran Eriksson link in the report below.
I have never seen Sven quite in this mood before
BBC Sport

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What planet is this man from? England were booting the ball up the park, giving it to the opposition. Against a poor side...

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I think he quoted stats from the game as England had a poor second half display against Paraguay, who actually are not a bad side, I seem to remember that they beat Brazil the last time the two teams met.

Anyway, it was nice to see Ronaldo of Brazil yesterday trying to emulate Ruud Van Nistelrooy's performance for the Dutch side, in fact I think he accomplished it quite well :D

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Paraguay were poor on Saturday...

Ooh, touche...;) But then again, Holland had Robben. Robben alone was more exciting to watch than the whole of Brazil imo. If he remembers to pass it to Ruud occasionally on Friday, all will be well. (I hope :D)

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What was that nosense about Van Persie accusing Robben of hogging all the limelight about

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There's nothing to it. From what I've heard, van Persie made a comment about Robben playing really well, but how it would have been better for the team if he'd had a little more eye for his team mates. Apparently, it was said in a rather analytic and intelligent fashion. There certainly was no mention of 'hogging the limelight' (or similar words). Last I heard of it, van Persie declined to comment on it any further, as it was quoted out of context, and he didn't want to give further quotes that could be misused. I don't think it's an issue in the Holland camo.

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I hope it's not an issue it has taken less than that for rattles to be thrown from prams before, I can't remember who mis-quoted him but I think it was on a BBC commentary.

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Spains performance yesterday was nothing short of amazing - by far the best team in the WC to date.
I dont think it was a penality and if no red card was given, it would not have been as easy, but their performance was amazing.