World Cup

[Scoofy12]

We have a nice international crowd here, surely people are watching the world cup... even if nobody in THIS desolate backwards nation cares about real football :D


so... discuss!

(here's a starter.... did anyone catch portugal vs netherlands? 16 yellow cards in one game?!? :scared: )

[Bok]

yup,

watched every game I could. And will be watching the Italy-Australia game today as well :)

Bok

[em99010pepe]

Scoofy12,

I saw that game. :looney:

Carlos

[Fozzie]

Portugal have gone as far as they are going to go.

We all know that much. :)

[em99010pepe]

Portugal have gone as far as they are going to go.

We all know that much. :)

I hope you are right!
Still thinking in Euro 2004 and Euro 2000 ? :lmao:

I really don't like soccer, I prefer to watch racing car and cycling.

Carlos

[the-mk]

I really don't like soccer, I prefer to watch racing car and cycling.

I don't like football or soccer (whatever you call it) too...

What kind of racing car do you prefer?

Did you see the Grand Prix in Montreal? Alonso did a nice win, but Kimi sucked at one curve, so Schumacher could overtake him :mad:

[em99010pepe]

I don't like football or soccer (whatever you call it) too...

What kind of racing car do you prefer?

Did you see the Grand Prix in Montreal? Alonso did a nice win, but Kimi sucked at one curve, so Schumacher could overtake him :mad:

I prefer GT Series, MotoGP (moto racing), CART, basically everything that has a combustion motor!!! I don't give a damm about the hybrid motors, I like the sound on the motor....

Carlos

[alpha]

the-mk/em99010pepe: you should check out the British Touring Car Championship if you haven't already, its really fun to watch.

As far as the World Cup goes I think Portugal are going to destroy us (England). I've watched every match that I could, though I'm going to miss the Brazil match tomorrow afternoon because it is a 16:00 kick off. Stupid working hours. :swear:

[em99010pepe]

alpha,

Of course I know BTCC. I also like to watch DTM.
I played a lot of computer games like TOCA, GP2-3-4, Indycar Racing, Nascar, F1 99 and all the mods for the games. And you? Right now my father installed R-Factor with a few amazing mods: GT, Laguna Series, Porsche Cup, etc

http://www.rfactor.net/

http://www.rfactor.net/trailer.html------>>>>>just feel the force, all the big guys are there if you played racing games.

This thread is about soccer........back to it.
PORTUGAL, PORTUGAL:rock: :rock: :banana: :banana: :eek:


Bok,

Will Portugal beat England next saturday?

Carlos

[QIbHom]

I'm so enjoying watching Ghana. An African team in the quarterfinals...it is about time!

[Scoofy12]

I'm so enjoying watching Ghana. An African team in the quarterfinals...it is about time!

I'm with you. if the US had to be knocked out by a surprise performance by someone, i'm glad it was them. (i'm still annoyed how much we sucked, and don't even get me STARTED on that PK call :swear: ... but hey im happy for them)

unfortunately i still dont give them a chance against brazil but hey, they had a great run

[Shish]

Being from Geordieland with several fanatic fans in the house, I`m still not ashamed to say I have little interst in the football though I did watch the last dismal England game. I have always preferred F1 and still have memories and mementoes of a visit to one of the top teams headquarters and some subsequent races due to my involvement with both radio and networking.
I have enjoyed some clips tho` of the lesser teams and rooted for them (or as the long time argument goes....I didn`t rout(er) for them...:lmao: ) and as one of the terrible twins is stuck in French Guiana just now, my recording of almost everything on tv and satellite has come in useful despite the organisation she works with having some out of this world facilities and equipment. Silly peeps have a 10Mb limit on emails tho. so the stuff has had to be compressed a fair bit. Still, I believe some very large displays and data processing equipment have been put to good use whilst normally idle with some good audiences :rotfl:

[em99010pepe]

alpha,

Watch this video about rfactor:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3473475624338885637&q=rfactor

More videos:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=rfactor

Carlos

[Nexus]

Couple of observations,

1) The Germans are faultless at penalty shootouts.
2) Brazil probably thought they had the tournament in the bag and went easy against France.
3) The Aussies really got the worst of the refereeing. Everyone but the Italians say so.

[edorajh]

3) The Aussies really got the worst of the refereeing. Everyone but the Italians say so.

I agree with you. Refereeing in the Australia - Italy was really terrible. And I think referees made some serious errors when you played with Croatia. You guys play nice football and you did deserve to go further.

Edo

[em99010pepe]

Italy is in the final.

Carlos

[edorajh]

Excellent game and two really nice goals. Congrats to Italy!

I told you it will be Italy - Portugal in final. :cheers:

[Shish]

Feel a bit sorry for the Germans (specially as the wifes father is one more or less and I`ve got several in the family otherwise) but the Italians sure stuck it to them at the death and 2 lovely goals was the reward cos all the players worked hard for the match.
The scenes of the hosts players so desolate at the end were enough to break your heart though, whatever nationality you were.
Anyway, I enjoyed a couple bottles of Becks (illegally you might say) and had some of the stalwarts watching with me, including a couple of Ozzer sheilas who were still patriotic but very enthusiastic over the game.
But the oddest supporter was a Sud Afrikaans theatre sister who is an ardent Juventus fan for some strange reason and got told off for leaping down the stairs and out the front entrance screaming her joy.......strange people these furriners....

[em99010pepe]

France goes to final.

Carlos

[edorajh]

Yup. Yesterday's game was much more fun to watch than this one.

So, who will be World Champ?

My vote goes to Italy.

Edo

[Scoofy12]

poll added. prognosticate away
i'd give italy the edge as well, but it's anyone's game. should be good.

[alpha]

alpha,

Watch this video about rfactor:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3473475624338885637&q=rfactor


Looks pretty fun! Not my kind of thing really though. I've tried getting into games like this but always have more fun driving my own car in the real world. :)

I like watching WRC and BTCC when I can though.

[em99010pepe]

Italy wins the final.

[Scoofy12]

pretty good game. always a shame when it comes down to PKs, though.

and zidane... :confused: what was he thinking...

hehe i would love to have heard whatever it was the dude said to him that set him off :rotfl:

[PY 222]

and zidane... :confused: what was he thinking...

He probably wanted to retire AHEAD of his game. :jester:

[Scoofy12]

"deciding the world cup by penalty kicks is like the nba finals being decided by a game of horse" - colbert report