Posted on 07/05/2006 7:31:00 AM PDT by soccer_maniac
If you are referring to the controversial extra time goal, I think you will find that we also scored another one late on, so it wouldn't have made any difference.
WE didn't cheat Germany. Not our fault if the linesman was blind.
Anyway, what's wrong with delsuional behaviour? If we're not going to win the World Cup, might as well get some temporary satisfaction from thinking we're going to win it.
It's funny. I've rarely seen a bad soccer still. But it's almost impossible to find a good football still.
That's because of the TV ratings...nobody wants to buy commercial time!
I am not disputing the fact that Brazil team was a major disappointment this year. They simply did not play at all wiht France. I am discussing with that guy about his utter hate to Brazil. Still, there is always a real and chance for Brazil to win a world cup in any tournament, more than any other team on the planet, and the records clearly show it.
That would be funny except the World Cup receives a lot more advertising money than any American event -- including the Super Bowl. And that's without commercials.
Next Question.
Can’t decide whose missus I fancy more - Trezequet’s or Henry’s.
65th minute
Time for Portugal to start diving every 20 seconds :)
To be fair, I also hate the Krauts too. You will be familiar with that team - it is the one you claimed was certain to win the World Cup.
Get over yourself. It's just banter.
Answer from the two Englishmen on this thread (posts 201 and 202) but of course they presented their point of view.
Aw, jj doesn't hate anybody -- he just talks like he does.
And of course Brazil is always a threat and a favorite. Only a fool or an ignoramous would say otherwise. Their record speaks for itself.
That said, when the BIG TEAM gets beaten expect to take some. France owns Brazil, and no other country can say that.
Again, we didn’t cheat anyone. Cheating means deliberate use of foul play, which is not what happened in 1966.
You argue to the contrary but you'll make yourself look silly.
Makelele's isn't bad either.
I wonder if Ronaldo should start selling his own version of the Foreman Grill.
French soccer fans watch their team play Portugal in their World Cup semifinal soccer match in Germany during a public viewing in the city centre of Lille, northern France, Wednesday, July 5, 2006.
What's pathetic is that Ronaldo is considered "old" and yet he isn't 30.
Fat people always look older than they are.
Let us see:
Brazil won 5 World Cup. Been in the Final 7 times. Qualified for every World Cup. Hold the most number of scored goals. They had the best player in history Pele. Even now “Fat” Ronaldo as you call him has the most number of goals scored by an individual in the World Cup (15 goals).
Germany won 3 World Cup. Been in the Final 7 times.
Italy won 3 World Cup. Been in the Final 6 times.
England won 1 Word Cup. Been in the Final 1 time.
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