Football Thread!

[Mikail]

On Serbia, I'm glad they lost along with Greece.

If you do support Serbia, you should support Greece and have no comment about Grkomani whatsoever as you'd be just like them!

[julie]

Mikail, you took the words right out of my mouth

[Phoenix]

On Serbia, I'm glad they lost along with Greece.

If you do support Serbia, you should support Greece and have no comment about Grkomani whatsoever as you'd be just like them!

I bet Buktop had a tear in his eye after serbia went down in their first game...

[julie]

cheers Phoenix, me skina od smeja, pass the tissues, and in this case not just for the verbal diarrhea

[Mikail]

I bet Buktop had a tear in his eye after serbia went down in their first game...

Wouldn't surprise me..... as he looked up at the photo of Tito, squared up on his living room wall with one hand placed across his heart.

[Phoenix]

Wouldn't surprise me..... as he looked up at the photo of Tito, squared up on his living room wall with one hand placed across his heart.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at Buktop's place when Australia play serbia in the last group game, he'll be rooting (as the yanks say) for the serbs against those bastard Australians for sure...

[julie]

he calls us kenguri,

[Mikail]

Good on 'im

[Prolet]

[julie]

did your wife object to the honking Prolet?

[Prolet]

Julie, I thought it was a funny karekatura since that awful sound is like a bunch of bees storming a hornets nest. The players cant even talk to eachother on the field.

[Warrior]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/condom-sales-as-south-korea-team-wins-in-world-cup/story-e6frfhk6-1225879540484

This is why we need Greece at a WC, to bring some happiness to the world population, albeit at their expense.

After another marathon night in front of the TV, I can safely say that the Dutch will do the usual, get to the QF and lose. The Italians well, they will be there abouts at the end. Paraguay is not a push over and i thought the Italians will walk away feeling good about themselves.
It looks like we will be enduring another 2-3 weeks of Italian football chess....Highly organised, disciplined, spirited, something Verbeek might want to copy for the game against Ghana, instead of going out like a village team.....

[Spartan]

You're dead right Phoenix
Germany is not that good.

Stopped reading here dude...are you kidding me?? Germanys not that good!!!!
Germany is a top 5 footballing nation in every regard. Nowe ill admit that on paper, before this tourney started, it looked like a weaker German side than other years. On the field was a different story.
If this german team maintains the level they were playing at vs the Ozzies, they will most likely win this tournament.....

Warrior, I heard an interesting stat during the match, the commentator made mention that Klose and Podolski have scored 5 goals between them in league matches this season...and yet Australia made them look like the most dangerous strikers in the world...

Before the 2008 Euro, Podolski could barely get a start for Bayern, yet was one of the top scorers of the tournament. Some guys just perform better when they put the NT jersey on....Podolski is one of them.
I took him first overall in my WC pool, and he paid off within 8 minutes with a goal....was also awarded an assist.

As for Klose...the guy has 11 goals in 15 WC matches, 6 with his head, 5 with his feet....nuff said i would think.

What we saw yesterday was the finely tuned, and well oiled mercedes engine that the german team can be...firing on all cylinders and purring smoothly.
There was nothing a nation of Australlias calibre good do against a team like that...nothing....that was the best 90 minutes ive seen a team play in a long time...absolutely brilliant.

Like I said, absolutely 0 shame in losing to the germans yesterday.....

[Spartan]

Podolski scored 3 goals in 7 starts 2006 WC (0 assists)
Started only 17 games for BM that season (CL and league)

Podolski scored 3 goals in 6 starts 2008 Euro (2 assists)
Started only 15 games for BM the previous season (CL and league)

Has started 1 game, and has 1 goal, and 1 assist in the 2010 WC so far
Started 27 games for Cologne, and scored twice the previous season.

The guy simply steps it up for his country...bigtime....thats why he is consistently in the starting 11 for Germany, while his club performances(in general) are mediocre....its wierd.

As for Klose, regardless of his club form, he is one of the most prolific scorers in WC history.

Australlia didnt make them ''look good', they simply coundnt handle them when they were at their best.

On a different note, what do you guys think of these 'Vuvuzelas"?
I find them to be the most annoying thing Ive ever heard...like a beehive in my brain or something!!

[Phoenix]

Stopped reading here dude...are you kidding me?? Germanys not that good!!!!

Like I said, absolutely 0 shame in losing to the germans yesterday.....

I think you've missed the goals by a long way so to speak...you are clearly unfamiliar with the Australian squad or Verbeeks tactics...what you don't understand is that several australian players were played in unfamiliar positions and Verbeeks normal and time tested playing style was thrown out the window for an untested game plan which proved to be a disaster...that's why the question over the strength of the German performance remains...as for the vuvuzela, there are somethings in life that I find far more annoying...if you know what I mean...