[WC] World Cup 2010 - General Talk Thread (76 Viewers)

[bianconero]

Yes. But isn't it overkill to have a sport where people build electron microscopes just to see whether a ball may have crossed a line by a micron or not?

Shaving hairs that close, so that no human can tell the difference in person but could tell in a forensics lab, kills the sport and changes its purpose and intents.

Things like the instant replay in the NFL is a joke: the game is played for cameras, not for the people on the field or the people in the stadium. We've built theater around the forensics lab of television cameras, not around the fans and refs and players at the match.

Football is, and has always been, a microcosm of the human existence, with its high, lows, moments of luck, scenes of injustices, the ecstasies and deep depressions.

Take that away and what you have left is cattle fodder TV.

 

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[icemaη]

Football is, and has always been, a microcosm of the human existence, with its high, lows, moments of luck, scenes of injustices, the ecstasies and deep depressions.

Take that away and what you have left is cattle fodder TV.

 

[swag]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWShjpiX8lc&feature=player_embedded

Roy Keane's analysis of England. Worth a watch.

Slowly I came to like this video. After all, the guy just came off an evening of steamy man-sex before this video. But I agree with most of what he said.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Slowly I came to like this video. After all, the guy just came off an evening of steamy man-sex before this video. But I agree with most of what he said.

Wasn't that Robbie Keane?

 

[Rabbit]

Wasn't that Robbie Keane?

Yeah

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I guess Greg went overdrive there!

 

[SABSAB]

Hiddink going on about Özil's passport not being legitimate, maybe he has been drinking.

That's newspaper bullshit (Italians call it germanopoli). Hiddink simply said as a joke that Özil has the "wrong" (german) passport instead the turk one so he can't play for him Hiddink and for the Turks. Özils family lives here in third generation and he decided for the nation he grow up in and made him the footballer he is now. People are just idiots.

 

[JCK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWShjpiX8lc&feature=player_embedded

Roy Keane's analysis of England. Worth a watch.

He simply brought them all back to reality.

 

[Azzurri7]

Ozil is Lebanese, he should play with Lebanese NT and we will win the World Cup in 2014.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

That's newspaper bullshit (Italians call it germanopoli). Hiddink simply said as a joke that Özil has the "wrong" (german) passport instead the turk one so he can't play for him Hiddink and for the Turks. Özils family lives here in third generation and he decided for the nation he grow up in and made him the footballer he is now. People are just idiots.

 

[David01]

Against Denmark,Japan,Cameroon and Slovakia they can afford it. I actually think they might have it right this time and they're going to peak when it matters and not in the first matches. Atleast i hope

everything is fine for the dutch as long as they win but if they fail to beat Brasil, the fans and media will absolutely gun them down for their poor play
Holland needs to win but also they must do that in style

 

[JCK]

Ozil is Lebanese, he should play with Lebanese NT and we will win the World Cup in 2014.

I thought you were Italian, from Bergamo to be more precise.

 

[David01]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWShjpiX8lc&feature=player_embedded

Roy Keane's analysis of England. Worth a watch.

the man has got a point, for once I agree with him
he was surprisingly calm but I felt he could explode at any time
wouldn't want to interview him without a gun in my pocket

 

[Trezegol17]

everything is fine for the dutch as long as they win but if they fail to beat Brasil, the fans and media will absolutely gun them down for their poor play
Holland needs to win but also they must do that in style

tbh i dont care how they play, when we play great ,everybody is praising us, now we win almost without a sweat and people start to hate, i dont care what the rest of the world thinks or hates us, winning is the most important thing. If we manage to beat Brazil,even when it's in the 94th minute and we play worse then Italy, i will be cheering even more! I wonder how people will react when we finally play some fancy football and win and see how many suddenly support us again... bunch of hypocrites!

Holland!!!!!!!:hellyes:

 

[David01]

tbh i dont care how they play, when we play great ,everybody is praising us, now we win almost without a sweat and people start to hate, i dont care what the rest of the world thinks or hates us, winning is the most important thing. If we manage to beat Brazil,even when it's in the 94th minute and we play worse then Italy, i will be cheering even more! I wonder how people will react when we finally play some fancy football and win and see how many suddenly support us again... bunch of hypocrites!

Holland!!!!!!!:hellyes:

like I said, it's all fine as long as you win but when you lose you'll see how the dutch media will gun Van Warwijk down for the poor play

 

[pitbull]

I thought Kaka played a very good game there yesterday, he seems to be getting in some kind of form after.. I don't know, 2 or 3 years?

And some sort of technology needs to be there. I'm not sure replays would do it, but at least put sensors on goal line and extra ref near penalty area. When I go into sports shop, take a ball and kick it out of the door, there's an alarm signal when the ball crosses shops boarders, it's that easy. The refs have stayed in the 60ties when Garrincha and the likes where the kings, but football has moved on, FIFA should've payed attention a long time ago.

 

[Ahmed]

No Asian team have ever beaten a South American side at the World Cup. Of the 10 encounters between the continents, South America have won eight times with two games drawn — North Korea v Chile 1-1 in 1966 and South Korea v Bolivia 0-0 in 1994.

 

[Yamen]

I thought you were Italian, from Bergamo to be more precise.

Thats what he said. Lebanon to Qualify but Italy to Win it

 

[Yamen]

No Asian team have ever beaten a South American side at the World Cup. Of the 10 encounters between the continents, South America have won eight times with two games drawn — North Korea v Chile 1-1 in 1966 and South Korea v Bolivia 0-0 in 1994.

Now I want to bet high on Paraguay

 

[Trezegol17]

like I said, it's all fine as long as you win but when you lose you'll see how the dutch media will gun Van Warwijk down for the poor play

True that m8, I'm hoping for an entertaining match, and with us as the winners ofc