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Points: 2383 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 10 2006 at 10:28
It's still over a month till the Premiership kicks off.

How do we cope without football now? Confused
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I'd have to concur that this was arguably the worst World Cup I've ever seen- seen it since about 1994 and seen footage of earlier ones and there have been so few great moments in the 2006 one it's hardly been worthwhile. Only Germany was consistently excellent in the whole tournament, imo. Although Italy were not the finest team there, they deserved to win yesterday after Zidane completely disgraced himself irredeemably. A bizarre final, in all honesty, but perhaps the only fitting one to such a let down of a tournament....
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The last good World Cup was 1986 IMO.
Lots of goals, great games and Maradona at his best.
Most WC's since have been overly defensive with fairly negative tactics.

Perhaps with the Asian and Afican teams improving so much and the fact that most of the players in the tournament play in such few leagues (mainly European) that games will only be settled by the odd goal?
The gap between the worst and best is getting smaller.
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GOD would that get boring LOL
 
 I'm pretty bored of football now.  Still a 6 week break before I get to see Sheffield Utd flop in the premiership Ouch
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cool ... that would be almost 500 matches!
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Originally posted by Kid-A Kid-A wrote:

 The group stages were great, but the knockouts were average.
 
Yes, they should make the whole thing one big group stage. All 32 teams have to play the other 31.


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Originally posted by horza horza wrote:

I wanted Italy to win - well done !!!


Apparently Materazzi informed Zidane that Dream Theater were crap and that Liquid Tension Experiment were the better band      



    
    
 
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Originally posted by Fede Fede wrote:

This was a very average World Cup IMO, one of the worst ones and maybe the worst..........Sleepy
 
 Truest words all thread.
 
 The group stages were great, but the knockouts were average.
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Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Zidane by his final career gesture = lamo! Disapprove

What the hell is a carrier gesture? A career gesture maybe?Wink


Ah,yes,dr. Peter Cygmund. Embarrassed
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Originally posted by Fassbinder Fassbinder wrote:

Originally posted by Atkingani Atkingani wrote:

First, congrats to Italy Clap
 
I was divided but after Zidane's headbutt I preferred Italy (but no saints were playing in either sides, certainly).
 
Let's wait South Africa 2010... generally when the host country has few "dreams" of winning the competition is average to good. If not, then Brazil 2014, when I'll have the opportunity to receive you all here and make the best team of prog supporters ever! Wink 
 
Surely, it will be the best team. But whom shall we support?
 
Well, as the quarterer man used to say: "let's go per parts!" Big smile
 
There's only one country already classified for WC 2014, ahem... Tongue
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Originally posted by Atkingani Atkingani wrote:

First, congrats to Italy Clap
 
I was divided but after Zidane's headbutt I preferred Italy (but no saints were playing in either sides, certainly).
 
Let's wait South Africa 2010... generally when the host country has few "dreams" of winning the competition is average to good. If not, then Brazil 2014, when I'll have the opportunity to receive you all here and make the best team of prog supporters ever! Wink 
 
Surely, it will be the best team. But whom shall we support?
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First, congrats to Italy Clap
 
I was divided but after Zidane's headbutt I preferred Italy (but no saints were playing in either sides, certainly).
 
Let's wait South Africa 2010... generally when the host country has few "dreams" of winning the competition is average to good. If not, then Brazil 2014, when I'll have the opportunity to receive you all here and make the best team of prog supporters ever! Wink 
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Indeed, this World Cup was littered with bad tackles, yellow and reds cards, very boring games and lots of 0-0 draws and low scoring games.  There were a few highlights, but I switched off after England, Argentina and Brasil were out, as I had no desire to watch the remaining teams.

Very disappointing.
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Originally posted by Barla Barla wrote:

First of all, I must say the refereeing was EXCELLENT, to let know to all that people who bashes him just because he's argentinian ...
 
It's a shame a World Cup finishes with penalty kicks ... AND that Italy is the World champion, because they didn't deserved it ...
France deserved to win because they put more balls ...
 
Anyway, congratulations, Italy !!
 
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A refereeing can`t be excellent, first of all because of that Malouda`s dive which Elizondo deliverated as a penalty kick (less than minute 10), so early in the match, that mistake could have changed the direction of the match.
 
Stop being sooo deffensive ....
 
In the other hand, im agree with you both, this was an average World Cup, this final match was a clear example of it, sadly we have to wait other 4 years LOL

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Originally posted by Fede Fede wrote:

This was a very average World Cup IMO, one of the worst ones and maybe the worst..........Sleepy
 
True, Fede. Very mediocre ... Sleepy
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Originally posted by Fede Fede wrote:

This was a very average World Cup IMO, one of the worst ones and maybe the worst..........Sleepy
 
I think so too, very poor performance by the Azzuri and I'll always remember the moment where Zidane was sent off! Ouch
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This was a very average World Cup IMO, one of the worst ones and maybe the worst..........Sleepy
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Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

Too bad about Zidane. It reminds me of Maradona, a long time ago, who also got a red card in an important match. It shouldn't have happened, but well...



Yeah... What a shameful way to end such a great career...
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2006 at 18:35
Too bad about Zidane. It reminds me of Maradona, a long time ago, who also got a red card in an important match. It shouldn't have happened, but well...
 
Congratulations Italy!
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Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

Originally posted by Barla Barla wrote:

First of all, I must say爐he refereeing was EXCELLENT


Well, not quite. There should be second penalty kick for France in the 52 minute IMO. And that second goal for Italians... I'm not sure if it was offside.

Anyway FORZA ITALIA!!!

 
That should have been a second penalty, but that was surely offsides.
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