The OFFICIAL TG FIFA World Cup 06 Predictions/discussion/hype thread

[Obi]

Originally Posted by DudeMan

oh talking about adverts.... the budwieser campaign over here is golden... it features two american comentators highly steriotyped of knowing jack **** about football....

my favorite was when England played trinidad and tabago... it starts off with the one guy saying...

comentator one
" well today we are going to see England play against Trinidad AND Tobago...."

comentator two

"well now that just doesnt seem fair to me 2 teams..."


oh god less you have seen it it will mean nothing but it cracked me up... the simple fella i am....

Yeah it's great.

"Holland is a city that is under water."

[Wulfyn]

Yes, the Italians won in the finest historical traditions of the way they play football. More cheating.

If you see the reverse angle you can see Grosso smiling as he drags his back foot and falls to the ground. The media should make more of this too - I'm getting miffed by them saying "well he was stupid to go to ground" and all these other excuses so as not to be controversial. About time one of them said "he dived and he is a cheat".

FIFA's policy of showing a card for any infringement has just put the tournament right into the hands of the cheats.

[Turbo]

They need to start banning guys that dive, after every game watch the footage and suspend them for a game. Or if you go down and you have to be taken off on a stretcher you cant come back into the game. Nothing like seeing guys being taken off then a minute later they are running down around like nothing happened. It totally ruins the game when people cheat and win because of it.

[Wulfyn]

When Figo doesn't even get a suspension for headbutting a guy I think we can't really trust FIFA about diving. I know I'm biased as England play Portugal next, but I don't see how you can headbutt a guy and get away with it. FIFA are doing all they can to make the game a non-contact sport I feel and it is ruining the game for me.

Ah well, here's hoping a little Brazilian magic tonight resparks the cup! I don't think Ghana have a concept of fear so hopefully it'll be a cracking game.

[icky]

Originally Posted by Wulfyn

When Figo doesn't even get a suspension for headbutting a guy I think we can't really trust FIFA about diving. I know I'm biased as England play Portugal next, but I don't see how you can headbutt a guy and get away with it. FIFA are doing all they can to make the game a non-contact sport I feel and it is ruining the game for me.

Did that headbutt actually make contact? When I saw the replay, it looked like yet another example of acting to me. Sure, he should be carded just for making the motion, but I didn't see contact.

[RGM-79N_GM_CUstom]

Brasil is through. 2-0 Ronaldo is now the top World Cup scorer of all time and Brasil also made it's 200th goal in World Cup history. (I didn't get to see it so I am not sure who got it in.)

I have Japanese class soon so I will be missing most of France vs Spain.

[Obi]

Originally Posted by icky

Did that headbutt actually make contact? When I saw the replay, it looked like yet another example of acting to me. Sure, he should be carded just for making the motion, but I didn't see contact.

Contact was made but the Dutch guy went down way too easily.

Its funny that a football pitch is the only place where grown men act as if they are in pain. If someone was headbutted or kicked in brawl they sure as hell wouldn't go rolling around the floor pretending to be injured.

[Wulfyn]

oh i'm not doubting that acting was involved, and certainly i don't think contact was strong enough to take a man to the ground, but there was contact as far as i could see, and you just can't do that sort of thing.

Lol... just saw Thierry Henry get elbowed in the chest only to clutch his face.

Spain 1 - 2 France (7 mins to go)

[Chappie]

The Figo headbutt should have earned him a one match suspension...disapointed about that ruling.

The diving in general is bad as you guys have all said. In a few of the recent matches ref's have given yellows for diving...that's a good idea in my book. However, something more needs to be done...fining a player that dives probably wouldn't be that big of a deterrent (sp)? because of the money they make...but something must be done.

Henry did go down easily..and he should not have clutched his face like he did...but I do think it was a foul...Puyol obstructed him. I'm sure Henry would have gotten to that ball first.

Spain just didn't attack very well today....France was very good defensively...especially Sagnol at right back and Makelele in that holding midfield role.

I'm going to say this now...and it might make me look like a fool....France will beat Brasil.

Chappie.

[munchkin]

It irritates me no end that FIFA consistently refuse to use things like video reffing and goal line technology for contentious fouls and so on. The conclusion to the Aus - Italy game was absolutely heartbreaking.

[Obi]

I was disappointed with Henry clutching his face like that. It was a foul but I hate to see someone with that much talent pull such a pathetic stunt like that.

3-1 France. I thought it was a pretty good game overall, but anything is good after the Holland v Portugal game.

[Wulfyn]

hmmm... a day without a world cup match - feels a little odd!

[DudeMan]

yeah....i know i just want the finals to hurry up and get here....lol with England in it ofcourse

[RGM-79N_GM_CUstom]

My life has lost meaning for the next two days.

Atleast I can get some work done.

[icky]

Originally Posted by munchkin

It irritates me no end that FIFA consistently refuse to use things like video reffing and goal line technology for contentious fouls and so on. The conclusion to the Aus - Italy game was absolutely heartbreaking.

My proposal is that they review the video AFTER games and suspend anyone who is seen obviously faking an injury. You can't expect refs to always see what happened, and you can't expect them to review every play during the game, but if players are suspended, like Henry missing the Brazil game, the acting will quickly disappear.