2014 FIFA World Cup Pool

[BooG690]

Remember all the funs we had back in 2010?

Let's do it again. This could be the official 2014 FIFA World Cup discussion thread, too.

[bikes]

ALL HAIL ENGLAND 2014 CUP WINNERS

[spoonitnow]

lol soccer

[rpm]

i'd be in

[jackvance]

Belgium wins easily.

[Hoopy]

In.

England get to play at least 3 games!

[OngBonga]

Anyone who thinks England has a chance is deluded.

In.

[bigred]

Sounds good to me

[OngBonga]

As it happens I like our squad, I think we have a decent chance of making an impact in 2018, because we have a young squad who will gain valuable experience this year in Brazil. But we're nowhere near good enough yet to compete with Germany, Spain and Argentina. We'd need to get very lucky to even make the semis.

Belgium have a better chance than England do, but I'm not expecting them to win either. My money is on a South American nation, probably Argentina.

[kiwiMark]

I do remember all the fun I had. in and hiboog.

[bigred]

USA USA USA

[OngBonga]

So how hated is Jurgen Klinsmann is USA after he dropped Landon?

I'm not sure USA have any players left I've heard of.

[OngBonga]

Oh right you have Brad Guzan, Tim Howard and DaMarcus Beasley. I've heard of three, and two of them play in the EPL.

[OngBonga]

Oh and Clint Dempsey, he used to play for Fulham iirc.

Wow you guys have a shit squad.

[bigred]

Michael Bradley

[rong]

Tim Howard has been around for ages. He must be like 50 by now. And in.

[OngBonga]

I'm probably not gonna bother with this actually. I'm boycotting the WC because FIFA are a bunch of cunts. It just doesn't seem right that the world will be cheering on their heroes for kicking a ball about in a shiny new stadium while people are struggling to feed and protect their children on the outskirts of the same cities the football is being played at. There's a lot wrong with the way the world works, and the WC has unfortunately been hijacked by a corrupt organisation whose only concern is profit.

Fuck FIFA, I'm not watching.

I've also given up smoking tobacco because fuck the tobacco companies, and fuck the government. This year is fun already.

[OngBonga]

Reclaim the game, FUCK FIFA

[BooG690]

I do remember all the fun I had. in and hiboog.

Is it weird that I missed you during my time away from these forums? That's definitely not weird, right?

[The Bean Counter]

In.

If I get fucking Iran again like I have in my work sweepstake, I'm going to hurt somebody.

[OngBonga]

Fuck it I'm in, but I'm for charity.

[BooG690]

We need a trusted escrow and somebody to pick the teams randomly (this person obviously can't be participating in the pool). Any volunteers?

[Savy]

I'm not taking part so can happily do the draw when you're ready.

[a500lbgorilla]

I want a team. Has to stand up for the principles of libery and freedom on the world stage. Has to be a paragon of open dialect and a warrior for a better world.

Any suggestions?

[a500lbgorilla]

nm I found one

[kiwiMark]

I'm not taking part so can happily do the draw when you're ready.

but you hate me

[Savy]

but you hate me

Do I? Why's that?

[STILL_mkd]

I think that Argentina will be the winner.
However, it will be very good matches for betting

[The Bean Counter]

Couple of reasonable looking bets available in this week's friendlies imo:

Brazil @1.25 to beat Serbia at home
Germany @1.1 to beat Armenia at home

[eugmac]

Hi, if there's still room for one more I'll definitely play.

[The Bean Counter]

Couple of reasonable looking bets available in this week's friendlies imo:

Brazil @1.25 to beat Serbia at home
Germany @1.1 to beat Armenia at home

So did you guys lump on?

[Fielmann]

So did you guys lump on?

No. I didn't really understand why these were supposed to be good odds.

[lolzzz_321]

lets do it, didn't we all randomly get a team last time?

[The Bean Counter]

No. I didn't really understand why these were supposed to be good odds.

Both positive expectations bets imo.

I would have expected Germany to be 1.03 or 1.04 for that game, as evidenced by the 6-1 win. Similar for Brazil, but a much tighter affair - I'd normally expect ~1.15 for that game.

[OngBonga]

Yeah but every now and then, the weaker team sneaks a draw in a friendly because the superior team are complacent or experimenting. Who'd have though crappy England could have sneaked a draw against the mighty Ecuador?

[rong]

What's happening with this?

[The Bean Counter]

Yeah but every now and then, the weaker team sneaks a draw in a friendly because the superior team are complacent or experimenting. Who'd have though crappy England could have sneaked a draw against the mighty Ecuador?

Never back England, especially if you're in England. They've never been good value if you're taking a punt in the UK as Joe Moron Public lumps on because "yeah, we're Engerlund, we'll fuck 'em all up because we used to rule the world with our navy".

[ChipEaterMan]

[OngBonga]

Argentina can't even take over the South Atlantic; don't get over ambitious.

[STILL_mkd]

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[bikes]

poor fucking croatia.

[STILL_mkd]

I will say poor Brasil.

[Hoopy]

England 4ver!

Oh wait......

[bikes]

entertaining commentary from ftr's favorite norwegian espania vs chile


[04:12pm] [potizen] por favor indeed
[04:13pm] [potizen] travelo homeo por favor
[04:14pm] [potizen] spectators leaving
[04:14pm] [potizen] they DONE
[04:14pm] [bikes] LOL
[04:15pm] [bikes] ahh fats commentary
[04:15pm] [bikes] is the best the commentary
[04:15pm] [potizen] loving the trainwreck spain be
[04:16pm] [potizen] busquets so bad
[04:16pm] [potizen] nice miss there sir
[04:19pm] [potizen] this costa striker. chelsea bought him
[04:19pm] [potizen] seems to be just as bad as torres
[04:19pm] [bikes] lol
[04:19pm] [bikes] its hard to be as bad as torres
[04:20pm] [potizen] i believeee
[04:20pm] [potizen] when is the meltdown starting
[04:20pm] [potizen] redcards and shit
[04:21pm] [potizen] busquet ramos pedro excellent melting candidates

[eugmac]

Aussie vs Dutchies, an entertaining match with just about everything in it, from terrible refereeing (horrible decision to award Holland a penalty), the awesome Cahill goal, keeper error that resulted in Holland's winning goal, and all in all Australia showing terrific resilience and spirit.

The sadistic fun in watching Chile finish off Spain was also a highlight. Adios Espana. Chileans were taking the piss though, flopping around quite a lot to win time, so the 6 minutes added time at the end was justified. Refs were questionable here too IMO.

[jackvance]

Spain, the end of a generation?

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ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[wufwugy]

Did Murica win yet? Is Murica even playing?

[80108]

This world cup will be staying in the South America. Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, chile all are playing very competetive football this world cup. Only Nethearland and Germany are showing champion like game from europe.

[bikes]

shut your whore mouth

[80108]

shut your whore mouth

Watch your Mouth, I am not here for this.
Saurez will win match for Uruguay.

[bikes]

Then would you kindly.



AND INCASE YOUR EARS ARE FUCKED

GET THE THE FUCK OUT

[80108]

Then would you kindly.



AND INCASE YOUR EARS ARE FUCKED

GET THE THE FUCK OUT

This is a Public Forum so I am staying here and England will be flushed out of world cup today.

[bikes]

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[eugmac]

Ruh rohhhh england

[bikes]

another piss poor showing by english defense in a world cup. -.-

[bikes]

mmhmm.

[jackvance]

I believe the top euro teams will run circles around the south-american ones. We will see. When Muller scored the third goal for Germany, they didn't even celebrate. That's a very particular kind of response in an event as big as the World Cup, almost as if they know these are just chores to be done before the finals.

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http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25014368

[rong]

That was so fucking depressing. I mean for a few minutes at 1 all I had some hope but that's it. If you think about it, at no point so far in the world cup have England actually been beating anyone.

[eugmac]

goddamn japan greece was a frustrating one to watch.

[rong]

Anyone still up for some gambooooool? As there was only a few of us we could just do the knockout stage.

[eugmac]

yes! as long as you don't give me a crap team like greece.

[rong]

I'll give you Japan.

[eugmac]

at least i'll be cheering for them anyway.

[eugmac]

savy said he'll do a fair random draw. how many of us are in?

[eugmac]

fair and random by the way means giving me germany.

[a500lbgorilla]

Apparently there are no slurs for the Portuguese.

This can not stand come Sunday.

[bikes]

Apparently there are no slurs for the Portuguese.

This can not stand come Sunday.

[OngBonga]

Apparently there are no slurs for the Portuguese.

This can not stand come Sunday.

http://www.rsdb.org/race/portuguese

[a500lbgorilla]

Fuck the pork-and-cheese.

Great fun to watch though.

[surviva316]

I think this WC should be really great for soccer support in the US. This has been an incredibly exciting WC in general, which could win over anyone who happened to watch games that don't have murrica in them (I'm especially thinking teenagers who have nothing better to do with their summer vacation than to see what this soccer business is all about; it's much harder to come away thinking it's boring this year than those who've watched in years' past). US themselves has been involved in a couple of good games; they've had about as many lead changes in the first two games than they'd scored goals in the last two WCs combined (I'm exaggerating ... I think). US got to get a "revenge win" against a very random rival in Ghana, who'd eliminated them from consecutive WCs.

Even if the US don't advance, I think it's much better (from a viewership standpoint) for them to play competitively in a great group than it is to play meh in meh groups. For anyone who's watching matches that directly affect the US, they get to watch an awesome German team and American fans have no choice but to be wowed by the Ronaldo cross on the last possession of the game. It's a helluva lot better than having the pride of the group be the LOLEngland team of 2010, and even the World Champ Italy team of '06 which came out of our group was boring as hell as far as Americans are concerned. They shutout every team on their way to the Finals (except for an own goal) and then won the Final on the dreaded (again, from the American perspective) penalty shootout.

I realize I'm leaving out 2002, which didn't exactly catapult the US into soccer-mania, but that was 12 years ago (which is like half of US soccer's modern history), and I think that was another case of surviving meh teams (Mexico being meh from American spectator perspective).

[STILL_mkd]

What do you think about Italy vs Uruguay?

Like I read Italy will play with new formation 3-5-2.

[OngBonga]

My two favourite historical World Cup moments -

USA 1 Iran 2
France 0 Senegal 1

[rong]

What the fuck? Who bites people?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/...allery?index=7