BS: World Cup 2010

Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
From: Les from Hull
Date: 12 Jul 10 - 08:46 AM

Don't blame the octopus! The footballers have much more control over the result. I wonder how much this cephalopodomancy will catch on in other areas.

It was a fair result, after a very difficult match to control. I for one thought that the officials did a great job under very trying circumstances. The De Jong kung-fu kick to the chest was probably an accident, although a very painful one to the recipient. The Dutch complaint that Elia had been blocked off shortly before the Spanish goal was unfounded. Players don't have to get out of opposing players way, and it was an obvious attempt to engineer a free kick or penalty.

So the Dutch slated the referee, the Spanish slated the referee, other referees though he did a good job. I thought he could have sent a Dutch player or two off in the first half, but that would have ruined the game as a spectacle.

Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 12 Jul 10 - 09:25 AM

Diego Forlan (Uruguay) named Best Player at the 2010 FIFA World Cup ... well deserved indeed!

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 12 Jul 10 - 09:41 AM

Indeed!

Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
From: michaelr
Date: 12 Jul 10 - 09:19 PM

To call that final a great game is quite a stretch. I thought it was dirty on both sides, very little creativity, the single goal was almost two hours in coming, and overall the two sides pretty much canceled each other out. Not a game likely to win converts to the sport.

The third-place match of GER vs URU, now that was a very good game. Played cleanly and professionally and featuring five goals, it was everything the final was not.

Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 13 Jul 10 - 07:14 AM

Johan Cruyff commenting on this year's debased Netherland side's performance: "This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style, yes it served the Dutch to unsettle Spain. If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they ended up losing. They were playing anti-football."

Great result, and a very well deserved defeat for a type of football that always deserves to be defeated.

Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Jul 10 - 08:37 AM

Fair play to Spain: through all those years of failure they continued to select their own men - no fortune for a Fabio or a Sven.

Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 05:03 AM

P.S: on this day, in 1966, Alf Ramsey's English team won the said cup.

Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 05:18 AM

Whoop whoop whoop.

44 years ago. Oh yes, I remember it well.

Why can't I remember what I did 5 minutes ago?

Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
From: Les from Hull
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 06:20 PM

Now what did I come in here for?

Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 Aug 10 - 06:30 AM

Apparently, the F.A. have stated the next manager of England will be English - thereby finally admitting they've been wrong. This sorry process began with an over-the-border Scottish director, Adam Crozier, appointing a mercenary Swede.

Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 26 Aug 10 - 06:37 AM

Well if I understand it correctly, it might just be Martin O'Neill.

If so, he is a good Englishman, isn't he :-)

As long as it isn't Pearce, I couldn't care less.

Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Aug 10 - 11:29 AM

If it's got to be an English manager, that would certainly rule out Martin O'Neill.

Subject: RE: BS: World Cup 2010
From: Gutcher
Date: 26 Aug 10 - 01:18 PM

I see that two of the team have taken out "gagging" orders in court
to prevent details of their private lives from being published.
Perhaps their attention, as with T, Woods, was not on the job.
Joe.