2006 WORLD CUP -- Day 5 Thread -- Brazilians enter Cup fray

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[RayChuang88]

A piece of advice: do not do business in Brazil today. The whole country today has gone football mad and turned into a big Samba party rudely interrupted by a football game.

(I'm using the international definition of "football")

[Fighting Irish]

Which part of "I hope the thread title is clear enough. If the subject isn't of interest, please stay away. This is a World Cup discussion thread, not a "which sport is better" discussion thread" don't you understand?

Which is exactly why I hate this sport. You fans are the touchiest, crabbiest people on the planet. The girlie pics are at least making me reconsider my stance ...

[FostersExport]

France still have good players, but a lot of them are old and that may well hinder the abilities of Thierry Henry, and he’s not exactly reliable in the big games. We shall see.

Oh, and GOAL to Togo!

[dfwgator]

Way Togo Togo!!!!

[Theoden]

I would have adopted the Aussies, but I love the German-English rivalry too much. If either side wins, the loser will never hear the end of it, especially if England wins.

[FostersExport]

Heh. Good one.

[FostersExport]

For sheer drama in a football match, I prefer England v Argentina. Something ALWAYS happens in those games. But Germany is definitely a good rival.

[dfwgator]

For sheer drama in a football match, I prefer England v Argentina.

They certainly have, especially the Hand of Satan (I refuse to refer to it as the Hand of God) game.

[relictele]

We don't need luck. We've been doing fine since the WC began except for the odd irrelevant post from people who just can't resist a juvenile snipe or two.

My advice remains the same: if your fingers can't seem to stay off the keyboard, then start a thread on the preferred sport of your choice and see how many posters you attract. It's a win-win.

[You Dirty Rats]

Togo went up 1-0 in case anyone is interested.

[Theoden]

We wouldn't be all that touchy if it were one or two people, the fact that it is many people, day after day that bothers us. We don't go into football threads striking at the masculinity of football fans for them loving to watch large, fat, and hairy men tackle each other in the dirt, or liking to watch dumb oafs running into each other.

BTW, I like football too, just pointing out the pendulum swings both ways!

Now if you want to talk about a crappy sport, one that shouldn't ever even be considered being called a sport, that would be NASCAR. The drivers are "athletes"!?!?! It doesn't take much athleticism to steer a car in one giant left turn for 3 hours, in fact, all you really need to do is watch the last 3 laps, watching the whole race is pointless. Most of the drivers stay in basically the same position the whole time. LOL, look what you did, you turned on my NASCAR rant!

[Aquinasfan]

It kills me they played so bad yesterday. Made me sad... :-(

We played badly and Czechoslovakia is the better team. But we could have done better. Sloppiness led to a couple of goals. And our offense was anemic. Too much midfield passing and no aggression on offense.

I'm holding out hope for an upset victory over the Italians. Hey, why not?

[eyespysomething]

Me too!

And there is nothing wrong with losing a good game to a good team. Its when they don't even show up to play.

[Theoden]

I never thought about applying the Falkland's war to it, that would make a good rivalry.

[Aquinasfan]

Brazil is ALWAYS good. I remember watching Brazil defeat Italy in 1994 in a shootout where Roberto Baggio sent his shot right over the goal, and Brazil scored the final goal for the win.

I HATE penalty kicks. After two overtimes the goalies should be taken out of the game (i.e., not allowed to use their hands.)

[Vectorian]

'I know some of you love this sport ..... but I'd rather watch competitive dry cleaing....'

You must love American Football then, loadsa stuffed shirts standing around all day. . . . . :D

[dfwgator]

If the US is to win , they cannot give up a goal five minutes into the match. If they can get it to halftime at 0-0, then they might get the Italians frustrated which can create some opportunites.

The problem however for the US is the goal differential, they are not likely to beat anybody by 3 or more goals. They could conceivably win their next 2 games and still not advance.

[Aquinasfan]

Togo went up 1-0 in case anyone is interested.

Wow! It's hard not to root for Togo and Trinidad and Tobago. Amazing that countries like that are in and Russia, China and India are out.

[Vectorian]

'Now if you want to talk about a crappy sport, one that shouldn't ever even be considered being called a sport, that would be NASCAR.'

Nascar is a sport? They sometimes show it over here in the UK at 3AM when they run out of old war films. I thought it was a webcam of a busy freeway I was watching. . . . :D

[Aquinasfan]

They could conceivably win their next 2 games and still not advance.

But it would be worth it to beat the Italians! 8-)