2010 FIFA World Cup

[Doc_Brown]

Team Points
Slovenia 4
USA 2
England 2
Algeria 1

(England and USA with same goal difference)

Third tie-breaker is number of goals scored. US leads England 3-1 there. According to Nate Silver:

Should the 0-0 result hold, #USA will have about a 70% chance of advancing, #SVN about 65%, and #ENG only about 55%.

[TheSaxlad]

Lmfao, 90 miutes of fun. What happened to your wee superstar Rooney, even goddam Heskey (why the f*ck is he in the england squad he cant get a game for villa) was better. Brilliant stuff, couldn't have got an easier group and you still might f*ck it up.

Slovenia all the wayy!

Sorry? I didn't see scotland play this week?

How did they do in the world cup?

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[pmchugh]

Lmfao, 90 miutes of fun. What happened to your wee superstar Rooney, even goddam Heskey (why the f*ck is he in the england squad he cant get a game for villa) was better. Brilliant stuff, couldn't have got an easier group and you still might f*ck it up.

Slovenia all the wayy!

Sorry? I didn't see scotland play this week?

How did they do in the world cup?

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We're shite but at least we know it

[Gypsys Kiss]

Lmfao, 90 miutes of fun. What happened to your wee superstar Rooney, even goddam Heskey (why the f*ck is he in the england squad he cant get a game for villa) was better. Brilliant stuff, couldn't have got an easier group and you still might f*ck it up.

Slovenia all the wayy!

Sorry? I didn't see scotland play this week?

How did they do in the world cup?

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Scotland dont play any week....they turn up though, you gotta give 'em that......

[pmchugh]

http://www.skysports.com/football/world-cup-2010/story/0,27032,15241_5753754,00.html

[ViperOverLord]

Bloody atrocious...Rooney might aswell have not been on the pitch, similar with Lampard. Gerrard shouldn't be on the left. Joe Cole....he is on the bench, yes? Not just my imagination...

Alexi Lalas said it best. Maybe England just aren't as good as they think they are.

[Gypsys Kiss]

Bloody atrocious...Rooney might aswell have not been on the pitch, similar with Lampard. Gerrard shouldn't be on the left. Joe Cole....he is on the bench, yes? Not just my imagination...

Alexi Lalas said it best. Maybe England just aren't as good as they think they are.

Maybe not.....but we are better than tonights performance

[ViperOverLord]

Lmfao, 90 miutes of fun. What happened to your wee superstar Rooney, even goddam Heskey (why the f*ck is he in the england squad he cant get a game for villa) was better. Brilliant stuff, couldn't have got an easier group and you still might f*ck it up.

Slovenia all the wayy!

Sorry? I didn't see scotland play this week?

How did they do in the world cup?

...

We're shite but at least we know it

How you like that return service? You thought you had an ace and then bam. Point, set and match. Just in time for Wimbledon.

[eddie2]

lol

were going home
were going home
were going
footballs not going home


3 lions on the shirt
can't be bothered to play
rooneys over rated
lampard lost his bottle
we are never rated


ow can't be arsed to finish it you lot can ha ha

yours faithfully


the drunken scot

[Pedronicus]

Joe Cole on the left, Lennon on the bench, Gerrard through the middle with Barry sat in behind, Wright-Phillips on the right, Lampard can stay at the hotel to keep Rooney company

Agree with everything, especially the last bit.

A real decent manager would of had the bollocks in sufficient size to take off Rooney at half time and stick on Joe fucking Cole. What a complete fucking disaster of a game with zero input by the 6 million pound manger.

[eddie2]

lol who is rooney he's never scored in the world cup lol he has more red cards than goals

[Lord and Master]

Did anyone else see the bit when the players were leaving the pitch and Rooney mouthed off at the camera?
I switched over from ITV to the Irish coverage on RTE (ostensibly for some brutally honest opinion) and was both delighted and amazed when they proceeded to not only show that bit in detail but also to provide sound for us.
Rooney snarled to the camera "I've never heard home fans booing before, call themselves proper fans? Fucks sake!"
Or words very close to that (Forgive me, I've been drinking) and then, fair play to the unbiased Irish (!) they then proceeded to mock, ridicule and, yes my friends, to lambast not only the crappy performance but also the unadulterated cheek of Rooney who, by the Irish pundits unforgiving (yet, in oh, so many ways apt) appraisal had been nothing but a huge let-down in this World Cup having the audacity to complain when booed by his own fans.
Johnny Giles summed it up masterfully "If you play like that you expect to get booed, Bill"
"I apologise for the bad language at the end of Rooney's interview" the legendarily taciturn and normally disinterested anchor Bill O'Herlihy positively beamed into the camera before concluding "if you can call it an interview".
Delightful stuff!

I'm agreeing with all the neg's yeah we were shite with a capital shite (scotland!) but should still scrape through regardless so there it is, we get to go through REAL emotion next game

[pmchugh]

Did anyone else see the bit when the players were leaving the pitch and Rooney mouthed off at the camera?
I switched over from ITV to the Irish coverage on RTE (ostensibly for some brutally honest opinion) and was both delighted and amazed when they proceeded to not only show that bit in detail but also to provide sound for us.
Rooney snarled to the camera "I've never heard home fans booing before, call themselves proper fans? Fucks sake!"
Or words very close to that (Forgive me, I've been drinking) and then, fair play to the unbiased Irish (!) they then proceeded to mock, ridicule and, yes my friends, to lambast not only the crappy performance but also the unadulterated cheek of Rooney who, by the Irish pundits unforgiving (yet, in oh, so many ways apt) appraisal had been nothing but a huge let-down in this World Cup having the audacity to complain when booed by his own fans.
Johnny Giles summed it up masterfully "If you play like that you expect to get booed, Bill"
"I apologise for the bad language at the end of Rooney's interview" the legendarily taciturn and normally disinterested anchor Bill O'Herlihy positively beamed into the camera before concluding "if you can call it an interview".
Delightful stuff!

Man i wish i had RTE, it would save me 10 minutes of england chat during every single game. And to be fair rte slam everyone, espcially ireland. They are a lot less biast than ebc or etv.

I'm agreeing with all the neg's yeah we were shite with a capital shite (scotland!) but should still scrape through regardless so there it is, we get to go through REAL emotion next game

Love how its changed from garunteed to go through (as alan shearer said after the draw with usa) to "should". I just watched the "highlights", what a shit game but was fun to watch through again just for laughs.

[Lord and Master]

Yeah RTE's cool, they'll happily give out about anything and everything.

Can't believe you've changed your av to the Slovenian flag! Jesus exactly how much raping and pillaging of your great-great-grannies village did we actually do?

I ain't an unhappy man, on the whole well-balanced and forward-looking; sadly diametrically opposed to the England team's performances thus far

[pmchugh]

Yeah RTE's cool, they'll happily give out about anything and everything.

Can't believe you've changed your av to the Slovenian flag! Jesus exactly how much raping and pillaging of your great-great-grannies village did we actually do?

I ain't an unhappy man, on the whole well-balanced and forward-looking; sadly diametrically opposed to the England team's performances thus far

Haha you'd be the same if you had to listen to reports on how say Germany were going to win the world cup before, at half time and after every single game

And the avi change was in response to this disgraceful traitor to his homeland: lordnex

[Sniper08]

Did anyone else see the bit when the players were leaving the pitch and Rooney mouthed off at the camera?
I switched over from ITV to the Irish coverage on RTE (ostensibly for some brutally honest opinion) and was both delighted and amazed when they proceeded to not only show that bit in detail but also to provide sound for us.
Rooney snarled to the camera "I've never heard home fans booing before, call themselves proper fans? Fucks sake!"
Or words very close to that (Forgive me, I've been drinking) and then, fair play to the unbiased Irish (!) they then proceeded to mock, ridicule and, yes my friends, to lambast not only the crappy performance but also the unadulterated cheek of Rooney who, by the Irish pundits unforgiving (yet, in oh, so many ways apt) appraisal had been nothing but a huge let-down in this World Cup having the audacity to complain when booed by his own fans.
Johnny Giles summed it up masterfully "If you play like that you expect to get booed, Bill"
"I apologise for the bad language at the end of Rooney's interview" the legendarily taciturn and normally disinterested anchor Bill O'Herlihy positively beamed into the camera before concluding "if you can call it an interview".
Delightful stuff!

Man i wish i had RTE, it would save me 10 minutes of england chat during every single game. And to be fair rte slam everyone, espcially ireland. They are a lot less biast than ebc or etv.

Yea RTE take it out on everyone,Eamon dunphy is probably the most straight forward person youll see talking about football.

here some of the funniest things about RTE : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYg3hJdq96I.


England were shit and i wouldnt be surprised if they lose against slovenia.it would be funny if slovenia and algeria both go through ,everyone expected England and USA to progress but as they say football is unpredictable.

[pmchugh]

lmao at sounness, he's such a prick but that was quality.

[eddie2]

lol the uk gonna be funny that day you got

scotland wanting slovenia
ireland wanting slovinia
wales wanting slovinia
channel islands wanting slovinia
england wanting wait for it

show: guess

lol 1 part of a nation wanting to win with the rest against them

[Pedronicus]

I just realised - I've got a bet that's gone into to brown stuff

[Pedronicus]

misembrache

18 Jun 2010, 9:36PM

Italian commentary said england were unrecognisable - I recognised them, I've seen them too bloody often. That was england alright.

Fucking right mate!
A total fucking load of shite!

[obliterationX]

lol the uk gonna be funny that day you got

scotland wanting slovenia
ireland wanting slovinia
wales wanting slovinia
channel islands wanting slovinia
england wanting wait for it

show: guess

lol 1 part of a nation wanting to win with the rest against them

Are you sure you spelled "Slovenia" correctly, or is "slovinia" part of the joke?

[nietzsche]

Quit worrying about it. England only needs to win against Slovenia.

Why in hell does England have a defensive coach when The Premier is all about 2 passes and goal?

I can't believe that with players like Gerrard, Lampard, Rooney you can't beat Slovenia.

Mexico in the other hand has 4 points but goes against Uruguay. A defeat against them (very plausible) and we're out.

[ga7]

Lol the final games of this group are gonna be awesome. Slovenia could probably take on the England we've seen tonight (except they seem shit at defending but still), it'd warm my heart to see them join France in the "pitifully eliminated first round of WC" club
Anyway Algeria played well, lacked a bit in the offensive and I still don't get why both coaches didn't make the obvious changes of unloading the midfield to add another striker seeing as both sides were skipping it with ease all the time anyway. There seems to be a trend to keep trusting players who don't do shit on the faint hope their next game could be better, so prolly Rooney & Lampard will be back at it.
I wouldn't bet on USA either... A draw wouldn't be enough for them to pass neh?

Netherlands vs Japan tomorrow should be worth a look, for some reason I'm expecting another draw though... Ghana-Australia shouldn't be one, Germany, Serbia & Ghana could all end at 6 pts in the last day so it might be a game of who scores more against the aussies

[the.killing.44]

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/ ... 901&ver=us

[Timminz]

OK. SO I understand that both the yanks and the brits put on disgraceful performances today, but how is the story of the day not "GERMANY LOSES TO SERBIA!!!"?

Germany drubs the Aussies, 4-0, while the Serbs lost to Ghana! How does that turn into what I just watched?

And it's not like they fluked it. The Serbs were the better-looking team today.

ASTOUNDING!