[Tournament] FIFA World Cup 2010

Woohoo, not loing now and luckily all the decent English players got booted out of the Champions League already so they won't be so tired. See, it was all part of the plan all along.

Worryingly, more and more England players seem to be picking up knocks as our season winds down, if Rooney's not playing we're fucked.

As always, I'm going to put money on Germany to win. Not because I want them to or even particularly think they will but because on English betting sites, the odds are always artificially low on England and high on Germany and there's always a semi-decent chance they'll win it. 15-1 currently on Betfair, worth a fiver I reckon.

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Not long to go now, Mush. When's the score predicting contest starting?

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How about bonus points for picking the top scorer? I reckon it'll be Christiano Ronaldo by some distance.

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Betting on the combined shirt numbers of all the goal scorers in a given match is always fun, although spread over a whole tournament it'd be pure luck, plus a bit of a mission to add up.

I reckon Ronaldo for top scorer, Greece for most sendings off, Portugal for most goals, Ivory Coast to let in the most goals and, er, that Swiss guy who hates England as the ref in the final.

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I was thinking of Urs Meier as it happens, although you're not technically wrong. Although apparently he's retired now so chances are it won't be him.

I was speaking idiomatically.

No chance can be diminished by as many players as you want and it's still no chance. Even though there's a lot of African players playing in France and England these days, there's simply not enough who regularly play together to form a cohesive team. In the England team there's a load of players who regularly play together, same with Portugal, Spain, Brazil and Italy so it's much easier for them to get together and play as a team for their country.

It'll be a European team that wins it this year for certain. The only question is which one.

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Originally Posted by a homewrecker

Since when did Brazil become part of Europe?

Brazil won't win this year. The older players are too old and the younger players have all been off form lately. Argentina are the only non-Eiropean side in with a shot as I see it and even then only if a couple of their players really turn up.

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I really want North Korea to beat Brasil, if they can even nick an equaliser It'd be awesome.

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Hahaha, cheerio France. The Mexico v Uruguay match is going to be boring as fuck with both of them playing for a draw.

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Mexico played really well but they do lack any sort of finishing skill which might hamper them somewhat. The guy who just signed for Man Utd looked promising though.

I watched the highlights of the Argentina match and they looked like they were taking the piss. Far more impressive than Brazil, even if that Brazil dude meant that shot rather than fluking a cross and so far only Germany have looked close to being that standard.

So Germany and Argentina impressing in the early stages of a World Cup, that hardly ever happens.

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I gotta go to work in an hour sadly, although I might well watch the USA match on the small tv in our office. Then hit the pub to watch England teach the Algerians how to play football.

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It's looking increasingly like there's going to be some less highly rated teams in the knockout stages. All the "Favourites" have been a bit shit so far, although I suspect come the next round, a lot of players will up their games.

Based on form so far, Argentina look favourites although you can never write off the Germans and I suspect once the Spanish, Portugese and Dutch start really trying they'll put up a decent challenge.

Sadly, it looks as though it's curtains for England. We'll probably scramble a shitty win and go through then get out-classed in the next round. The simple fact is, although there are regularly two or more English teams in the last four of the Champion's League, they're teams full of foreigners. The current England team mainly play for Spurs and our keeper from the first match was from West Ham of all places. The best England teams of recent years have been those primarily made up of Man Utd and Arsenal players, back when the Neville brothers, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and so on all played together every week and knew each other's styles. Plus at present they're all playing out of position and WHY THE FUCK IS HESKEY STILL IN THE ENGLAND SQUAD WHEN WE COULD HAVE TAKEN BOBBY ZAMORA?

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Man, I thought seven would be over the top.

Portugal, Brazil and Argentina are looking like the teams to beat now, if only because they've all started to relax, which is when really good players are at their best. The reason England are playing so shit is because they're scared of losing, even against shitty teams like Algeria and the US.

I think Spain might stick four or more past Honduras the way the match has started.

Edit: Haha, my 2-1 to SA over France is looking a lot more likely now.

I was speaking idiomatically.

What the FUCK?

The ref's a fucking German apparently, that ball was a clear yard over the line. We're playing shit enough as it is without getting perfectly good goals disallowed.

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