2002 FIFA World Cup Comments by Tom Bramwell
Review - EA's inevitable World Cup cash-in gets a red card
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BartonFink
14/06/02 @ 16:11
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I'd say it's between
Brazil, Sweden, Spain, Italy and Germany
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Yea but you are still heading home none the less
I think you're missing the point: WE BEAT THE US! :) Just can't see England beating Denmark. Doesn't matter. There is no way in hell they'll get past Brazil in the quarters. The S.Americans may not have a decent defense, but they won't be challenged by our pathetic team. Brazil, Sweden, Spain, Italy and Germany Sweden are looking damn fine. For me it is either Brazil, Sweden or Senegal. |
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BartonFink
14/06/02 @ 16:28
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Brazil side of the draw looks open and shut
Brazil v's Sweden semi-final The other side is wide open... Although I thinks it's going to be Germany v's Spain |
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Moonbender
15/06/02 @ 16:05
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I'll hold my thumbs, but we will have to reschedule that football match, I won't be awake at that time. 4 PM okay with you? :P
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I think the golden goal rule makes for poor matches...
Well the game has to be decided one way or the other and as an Englishman I obviously hate penalty shootouts with a passion... The last 5-10 minutes of any football match pretty much turn into golden goal any way, anyone get a winning goal that late would have to be stupid to do anything other than waste as much time as possible to get the win. Ireland were very unlucky today, I thought they could have done it but the lottery of penalties settled it. The quality of penalty taking from both sides was pretty ropey though. Now if the Spainish actually understood the offside rule it could have been a different story... Sweden were desperately unlucky too, I almost thought the goal of the tournament was going to be scored by a Southampton player! :-)
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BartonFink
17/06/02 @ 09:16
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/me munch munch munch munch
eating words munch munch munch munch Well done England Penalties suck.... /me crying into coffee Still not going back on what I said though Brazil v's Someoneorother Germany v's Godknowswho Semi-finals will do more word munching if required Well done England hope ye go all the way but Brazil though?? /me back to crying into coffee
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Hehe, the Llama incident must have deeply impressed you at that time. Well, who wasn't impressed? Klinsi devoting his goal to Rudi who was sent off, too.
I would have liked to see Ireland win, but I have no problem with Senegal beating Sweden. I am really excited to see who will stop Senegal. Edit: Errol, you can bet your console (whichever it is, note my clever reference to gaming) I WILL be excited, but that's rather due to my Football-patriotism than to the expectable "quality" of the match.
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The belgians will be terrible if they win but i'll be cheering them on today anyhow- I'm just thinking how great it will be (edit: or should i say 'would be'... not that the belgians really have much chance getting through... :-D)to rub my Belgian work-mates' noses in a 5-0 thrashing from England on Friday!
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I can't believe the USA are still going!
They probably did weight training using Xboxes! The US doing so well is a surprise, maybe America will actually wake up to the fact there's a tournament going on. Saying that there was a England fan's video diary on the BBC the other day and even some of the Japanese public didn't really know it was on.... |
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The US doing so well is a surprise, maybe America will actually wake up to the fact there's a tournament going on.
On my way to work this morning, walking to my local tube station in a Belgian suburb, there were three Yank kids running around waving US flags and screaming, and the match was still going on. We really don't want to encourage that sort of behaviour. Come on Germany, bury 'em! |
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Perhaps, since they werent actually watching the match, they didnt even know it was on.. a random burst of patriotism maybe? I wouldnt put it past the Yanks ;-)
And I know its USA, but can we really cheer on Germany? Oooooh- its a tough one! :-) Incidentally, otto, out of interest- where abouts in Belgium do you live- suburb of Brussels? If you dont mind me asking that is... |
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Well, Otto, you know, cheer for your 1/2 team, but do it quietly eh!
We've a guy at work who's English/Greek Cyp. So when England are winning he supports them, or when Cyprus are playing etc etc. When Ireland are playing he cheered them because his Grandad was 1/2 Irish. One can take it a step too far! |
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Well Nem it works both ways, you have twice the chance of winning but you also have twice the chance of losing. And you can never really enjoy it either way cos some idiot will say "ah yes but you're not *really* English/German (delete as applicable) are you??" and go & rub some shit in your face. :(
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Or "You just pick the side that's winning" which is my line to my friend, and it's pretty much true. I'm English true and true, but the mix of different nationalities in London is fantastic, it brightens up the pub matches!
Although it was a sad day when the South Africans lost; barstaff and temps across the city were sulking. |
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Well if you are part German otto, then thats ok :-)
(i live pretty close to you then- near Roodebeek metro stop, though not for much longer, I move back to the UK in a couple of weeks) I have a mate who is part Welsh... doesnt make it known when they play football- he always supports england, but for some reason he is very Welsh when it comes to rugby... |
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