World Cup 2006

[bbloke]

Everyone should by now have had a chance to view the highlights if they could not watch the games live, so I'll talk quite freely of the scores now! I felt sorry for Japan, leading 1-0 until the final few minutes, and then conceding three!

Italy beating Ghana 2-0 was not really unexpected for me, but I didn't watch the match, so I don't know how well it went for both sides in terms of the flow of play.

Commiserations to the USA, having been beaten 3-0 by the Czech Republic. I don't know how much better the US team is now, compared to a few years ago, but the Czechs have often been quite a strong team.

Ooooh, France vs. Switzerland today, eh?

[fryke]

Yeppers... ... That's gonna be an adrenaline rush for me.

[bbloke]

I think most of the English population will be cheering on Switzerland.

[mw84]

I don't think the Japs should of had that goal allowed, from what I saw the keeper was definitely shoved out of the way!

Just caught the second half of Togo v Korea match, surprisingly good to watch. I think the Togo striker, Adebayor should of been taken off at some point though. He was constantly standing offside and hardly moving at all. He would play a ball to someone then instead of moving he'd just stand in the same spot and they'd loose possession needlessly.

Looking forward to Englands next match on Thursday.

[bbloke]

Yeah, I heard the goal scored by the Japanese was a little dodgy... I didn't see the match, so I can't really comment. I'm cringing as far as England's next few matches go. Of course it is most exciting for me when England plays, but I was worried they were not playing as convincingly as they should do. I don't know if it is the heat, the injuries, the tactics, or something else.


Potential spoiler:
France 0 - 0 Switzerland so far (24 minutes gone). Good to see the Swiss holding their own thus far!

[fryke]

And that's all both teams did until the end. ... I guess both think that they will beat the other two teams, and so the 0:0 in the first game would be enough for both to reach the next round... I certainly _hope_ so for Switzerland. Either way: Nothing lost yet. Yay!

Now for Brazil vs. Croatia.

[Rhisiart]

It goes without saying that I would like to see Wales play in the World Cup. The problem is we're not very good at football/soccer. I've never quite worked out why, but I blame Gary Sprake (see image).

Therefore as a Brit, I am obviously supporting England. I just hope they don't bottle out.

"Herself" hates footy. My oldest daughter wants Brazil to win. My youngest daughter calls a dressing gown a watering can, so what more can I say?

[reed]

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/inte...421130,00.html

May the best team (oops, country) win. In Paris there was total silence for 90 or so minutes. You know the reason why. A real joy in such a noisy city.