Official MG's Football (FIFA ) World Cup thread

Anyone gonna be watching this? America has good team this year so don't count yourselves out and plus last time we played each other you in the world cup you guys won 1-0 in 1950.

I know your probably thinking "But its England they are just gonna rip us a new one!"

Well your right :-D

June 12 outside the school gates in Rustenburg Africa,be there!

 

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Well, I'm British and U.S citizen, so I'm good with either.:-D

 

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http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/67/world-cup

@ Halo:- Yeah Tim's the Goalkeeper for Everton is he not? Great team. Mine used to be Arsenal.:cool

 

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June 12 2:15 EST

I just read the the captain Ferdinand will miss the cup due to a knee.

 

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His replacement, Michael Dawson, is a better centre half than Ferdinand anyway.
If I was Capello I wouldn't risk Rooney, wouldn't take that drunken cow on rollerskates, Heskey, and would have taken Steve Harper instead of Calamity James.
I agree with Halo. Once we meet the technically superior sides (if we get out the group stages, which ain't a given) we're funked.
The only thing that can save us is if Capello gets his tactics spot on. Like don't let Lampard take a penalty. Please.

 

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We're going to lose and not make it past the group stages. We honestly don't have a clue at the moment.

 

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Can for meThis thread isn't going as planned:-D Everyone who's English thinks we're gonna get creamed and it seems not enough Americans know what soccer is yet to have a good old fashioned my dad can beat up your dad argument,I'm reminded of star17's comment 4 years ago about the world cup being a peace cup members of the UN drank from,jokingly ofcourse :-D

Wanna see something lame?

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/shout-for-england/?gclid=COfUlIjPiaICFReX2Aod-EYqWg#

There's loads of them

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/shout-for-england/browse-videos.php

We need more PMA or we're doomed...

 

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I think it's starting to become more popular as AC Milan has been touring NA cities. They were in Montreal on Wednesday and pulled in some 48K fans in a 76K stadium to play against our Impact. I'm sure every Italian from 100 miles around was there! :-D

They also filled the Chicago stadium last Sunday with the 20K max. Mind you, these are maximum numbers from a real team visiting. I don't think NA will ever embrace soccer as passionately as the rest of the world because they want to see action for the most part.

Also, the whole schedule of games will be shown on our CBC over the air, I believe that's a first.

 

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If the US beat us in a week the viewing figures stateside will shoot up.

The security for the match will have to be tight with around 74,978 and 22 US fans plus the team all under one roof,all we need is an Israel referee and we got ourselves a game!

:-D

 

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If the US win the World Cup it's bye bye baseball as the national game.

 

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Here's a website that gives the complete match schedules of the coming world cup event. One can select the calendar by city to show at what time the games will be played where you live.

http://www.markthisdate.com/calenda..._Match_Schedule_2010_South_Africa_10041.html#

We'll be watching ..... for a month.... LOL

 

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This is true. I live in the U.S. and always have. In talking to people on msn they talk about the 'cup' and also F1. I sadly tell them that neither is a "real sport" to many in America. I for example couldn't name one person on our team.

EDIT: No offense meant to anyone, it's just everyone is into something different.

 

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How can football not be a 'real sport'? It's the most popular spectator sport on earth! Millions watch and play the game every week. If there's one thing that spoils it, it's the owners that buy clubs as real life Subbuteo games, get involved with the running of the team and spoil the equilibrium of the manager/player relationship. And too much money.
Most of the American national team play in Europe, and quite a few play in the Premier League, considered the strongest league in the world. And that's no mean feat for a kid from the South Side in the ghettoes of Harlem or whatever. Or Bel Air.....
I thought the same way about your American football. Then I watched a couple of games, learned the rules, the tactics, positions etc and now I watch it religiously during the season. Hate baseball, though. Boooooooooring.





EDIT: No offense meant to anyone, it's just everyone is into something different.[/QUOTE]

 

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lol Honestly thats how I thought this thread was gonna go, but most here are too bloody nice :-D

Ok, here's my input... to the English guys in this thread, where is your patriotism? We are English!... we will plough through any and all opponents like Brock Lesner angrily charging through a male hairdressers :-D
Thats the attitude we should have, the trouble with us English in football (named FOOTball because you use your FEET ) we have always had the "At least we tried" attitude, happy with second best, not enough drive for the win.
Bottom line is and all of you should know this, anything can happen and it's impossible to predict... surely you know the good old quote "Football, it's a funny ol' game"
How about just cheering on your team and hoping they will win? :strong

@Buck... I think you might want to rephrase your comment to "Here in the US Football isn't as popular as the rest of the world"
Americans have this illusion the Superbowl is the most watch event in sports... sorry to shatter your dreams but apart from North America only a very small percentage of people watch it... World Cup?... hundreds of countries glued to tv's and pack bars and pubs to watch whether your team is in it or not. Football is the bisggest and most popular Sport on earth, the whole money/business side of it came from players seeing how American football and Baseball players are super rich, it's the American sports that turned other sports into money makers.

Living in North America I have had the whole "Football vs Soccer" argument a million times.... the argument ends in 1 question... "The world governing body of the sport is called FIFA.... not FISA"

The world cup will hopfully be the spectacle it always should be and I hope my home team wipe the floor with everyone.... now who's with me :strong





More like it Rikky? :-D

 

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Additional: Best england team since 1966.... the 1986 squad with Shilton in goal, Liniker up front, Hoddle and Waddle doing the twaddle and the Brick wall Butcher holding the back line together, lead by the man who's bones break easily Mr.Robson.......... WE WERE ROBBED!!!!!!........ we truly were

 

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When Peeps who were raised on soccer/football move to North America they carry the torch for that sport wherever they are. It's in our blood. LOL

Supposedly it's the "oldest" sport in the world and have proof of that when you see the pic. below. :-D

 

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I agree watching baseball is rather boring. I did state "to many in America" meaning it doesn't have a large following. Me myself am not into many sports viewing. I would rather watch motocross than the super bowl. Money destroys the majority of the sports here also. Look at some of the contracts in the NFL, the players are not held accountable to being role models that they are to many. They play the game on Sunday then on Monday get pulled over with two hookers in the car with a 8-ball of coke with a gun under the seat.

 

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So, help me out. Why is the US playing football this time of year? The superbowl was a few months ago. Did England actually start playing real football, or did the US start playing kickball? :-D

Just joking, not a soccer fan. Have fun watching the game. I am up for a post game riot, seems that is popular with soccer. :-D

 

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I predict a riot. I predict a riot.
The World Cup is held in the northern hemisphere early summer when all the major leagues are finished. I suppose it's a good time of year as it's
late spring on north earth and late autumn on south earth.
I'd love to visit S Africa for this. But I'm skint. Anyone else like to join me in abandoning hope of going to the World Cup? :cry

 

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No, no , no, it's not post game riots, dear oh dear.....it's "a ruk" which eventually turns into all out war!! :-D
It's funny, I was reading the other day how most European nations dread hosting a Football tourny if England are involved, can't say I blame them, we can be a bit stupid when it comes down to football. 2006 we were knocked out by Portugal... so what did the fans in England do?.... Start smashing up all the kebab houses... yeah well done lads, kebab houses are mainly Turkish rolleyes

I've often seen it as tribal and most of those involved are there for the fight, not the sport, not so much now but back in the 80's... Millwall vs Chelsea anyone?.... people throwing darts across the stadiums and sharpend coins, weapon of choice was the Stanley (exacto) knife.
Wasn't it the Liverpool fans got us banned from Europe for 5 years in the late 80's/early 90's?
And I remember several times when they clashed with the Red army.

Thankfully it's calmed down quite a bit now lol... they all got old :-D

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK9yMZLFIbs


Hell yeah homie!You can have a well deserved thanks for that,if you listen to the commentator when Beckham scores that's me at 10%:-D

I'm thinking about going into Manchester to watch it on the big screen on Saturday,get shit faced and scream as loud as I can and if we lose 'which is impossible really' we can get into a fight and beat up some Mancunians :-D

This is the only time I throw logic out of the window Nedlamar once every four years,nationalism is illogical,the game of football is a stupid game where men kick a dead bit of cow around for 90mins but when England score and win there isn't a drug out there that can touch that feeling :cool

Maybe us Brits are a little nuts...

 

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You know what Rikky, that feeling I was experiencing durin the Canada vs USA Olympic Hockey final was the same feeling I've had when England play every match, I've yet to experience England in a world cup final, I will happily quit my job to be able to watch it.
I was just this minute explaining to my boy just how big Football is outside North America and when England play...well realistically speaking it is our Sport... the national pride throughout the country is electrifying.
Win lose or draw... England play and nothing else matters.....Win, and it's indescribable.

The FIFA World Cup = Greatest spectacle on Earth.

Remember boys, it ain't over until that wistle blows!

It's World Cup.... Time to let the 3 Lions roar shake the very ground they walk on!! :strong

 

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"Maybe us Brits are a little nuts..."

Maybe? :-D I hope the US kickball team smacks the heck out of your team.:-D

Going a bit OT, but I don't see why there are riots after sporting events. We have them as well with basketball.

 

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You know I'm removing the penalty joke from my sig too its just too negative,if we keep saying we can't score penalties we never will.

I have a theory as why we're bad at penalties,I think its because the country puts so much pressure on the players unlike practically every other footballing country we actually say out loud we think England are gonna lose or we can't score penalties its like a self fulfilling prophecy.

If you said something like that in Italy or Argentina you'd get stabbed!

EDIT what we need in England is less logical reasoning and more balls out passion,I'm often guilty of that.

 

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Penalties, stabbings? Goes and loads Arf. Not much of a kick with the 5.56 round, but I will gladly take up goalie position for your kickball game. :-D

 

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Interesting point actually,we are always the team who is cleaner than white,we want a good honest game played by the rules.

Every other team would take weapons to the game if they thought the ref wouldn't see them:-D

I do agree with the way we play the game because I see it as an extension of British society but due to Iraq I don't think however clean we play the game other countries will start thinking we're decent people so we may as well start stomping on the other teams nuts while they're on the ground we've nothing to lose.

And our players are gonna get their nuts stomped on anyway,we need to do what the Italian and South American teams do,find a player with a weak temperament and whisper a threat about killing his family to get him sent off.

Remember the Zidane headbutt?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUjFRKWk6gQ&feature=fvst



Pretty cool video :-D I still don't know what was said to him to make him reat like that,maybe google has the answer or someone can enlighten me,tomorrow

Night folks!

 

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Here in Montreal, whenever there's a riot expected, the gangs hire a few rabble rousers to 'get things going' and occupy the police while they hit the electronic and jewelry stores a few miles away with impunity knowing their chances are good at not getting caught.

I hope the cops are ready for the next time. I can't remember what it was last time, maybe hockey.

 

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Maybe they'll throw a curve ball at the cops this year,send a few guys to go and rob the stores so the rest of them can watch the game :-D

 

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Rikky, I just saw your location. PM Halo and tell him to sticky this and change the title to make this the 'official MG's World Cup thread' for the duration . You probably missed his post asking you if you wanted to have this done.

 

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Bah, got 31 flavors of fail for any rioters here. Don't think I will need it.

 

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Nah I didn't post 13 Sent a PM anyhoo...

 

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Bring back Vinnie Jones and Dennis Wise!.... :strong

The professional foul could rock the World Cup 2010 :-D

 

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It will either be a draw or USA winning. I think a lot of people counted us out because it's England, but I think they have a lot to fear.

Team USA - Dumping tea in your harbor since 1776.

 

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Still think it is funny that this is the first I have heard of our kickball team. Go USA Kickball team! :-D

 

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That's grounds for immediate banning. lol

 

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BBQ and Beer on Saturday is a must, can't wait!

 

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In this diverse country of Canada, we see virtually all flags and stuff from most countries out for sale here in TO. LOL Some cars are already equipped with a flag of choice by the owner. Guess they can't wait until June 11. :-D

 

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Definitely NOT. All the bars etc. will be full and open earlier in the A.M. for serving beer & liquor during the World Cup event. It's a very diverse city where we live in so the chance of witnessing a humongous celebration here is very likely.

The city will have their hands full with the G20 coming up as well during this world cup event.

 

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Increditable~~ football is the most popular sports in the World, but not in US...Why?

 

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Argintina will be the One!