scouser 4 Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 I'm at a loss now, with the results so far. When we know the last 16 it will help. I still think Italy might get through there. Link to post Share on other sites
Wayne H 0 Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 Ingerland Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 Mr Becks will just get better and better and take us up there. Link to post Share on other sites
oo 1 Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 Wide wide open this time - the makings of a superb tournament. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 How about Ireland! Come on boys in green! Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 U S A U S A U S A U S A U S A U S A U S A Go USA Link to post Share on other sites
curious-georgia 0 Posted June 13, 2002 Share Posted June 13, 2002 BRAZIL Link to post Share on other sites
7-11 2 Posted June 13, 2002 Share Posted June 13, 2002 All predictions seem to spell doom to that teams chances, so here goes hoping the trend will continue. BRAZIL Link to post Share on other sites
talisker 0 Posted June 13, 2002 Share Posted June 13, 2002 Anyone who says England is living in cloud cukoo land.....anyway who says Brazil has no imagination.... most exciting will be Spain....9 goals in three games winner???? If the first round has taught us anything its not to make predictions.... Link to post Share on other sites
oo 1 Posted June 13, 2002 Share Posted June 13, 2002 The tournament becomes a whole new competition once you get into the second rounds and further. Teams have to play for wins, not play around to get the required draw. Don't discount anyone - including cutey Owen and gang. Link to post Share on other sites
frannyo 2 Posted June 13, 2002 Share Posted June 13, 2002 Brazil are looking good, but their opponents have not been the strongest. It remains to be seen. Link to post Share on other sites
Ron Jeremy 0 Posted June 13, 2002 Share Posted June 13, 2002 Spain looked pretty good but their opponents haven't been the best... They're offense looks real good Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted June 13, 2002 Author Share Posted June 13, 2002 Brazil looked great just now in a 5-2 win. A pleasure to watch. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted June 13, 2002 Share Posted June 13, 2002 Hey Ron, good to see you branching out of the world of movies and into winter sports! What's La Carrera really like then? Link to post Share on other sites
kobet 0 Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 I'm not a fan, but I think that England are going to beat Brazil and go on to win the cup. But hey WTF do I know! Link to post Share on other sites
Wizz 11 Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 Well I reckon someones gonna win it. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted June 20, 2002 Author Share Posted June 20, 2002 Have you seen this folks? =========== Italian club sack Ahn as payback for knocking out Azzurri Rory Carroll in Rome Thursday June 20, 2002 The Guardian It made him South Korea's hero but Ahn Jung-hwan's golden goal also appears to have earned him the sack from Perugia as part of Italy's backlash against its shock exit from the World Cup. That he scored just one goal for the Serie A club last season rendered his historic strike in Tuesday's match all the more treacherous, according to his employers. "That gentleman will never set foot in Perugia again. He was a phenomenon only when he played against Italy," Perugia's president Luciano Gaucci, told the sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport. "I am a nationalist and I regard such behaviour not only as an affront to Italian pride but also an offence to a country which two years ago opened its doors to him. I have no intention of paying a salary to someone who has ruined Italian football." Since moving from Busan to Perugia in the summer of 2000, Italy had considered Ahn an under-achieving lightweight but his 117th-minute strike engraved his name in the chronicles of Italian catastrophes. It clinched a 2-1 win for the co-hosts and followed a string of dubious decisions which convinced many Italians the game was rigged. Parliament is due to debate the alleged conspiracy today after media-led fury proclaiming "the death of football". A Perugia spokesman said the club was close to ditching Ahn even before the World Cup. A decision about his contract had been due by the end of this month. Apparently unaware of Perugia's reaction - and that he was rubbing it in - the 26-year-old said: "Although we won on my goal, I think I should thank Italy. I didn't play much, [but] I've learned a lot and had tough timesin Italy. That has helped me play good matches in this World Cup." If Ahn is banned from Perugia the whole of Italy is off-limits to Byron Moreno, the Ecuadorian referee whose face was splashed across front pages which accused him of being Fifa's triggerman in a conspiracy to oust Italy. "The only man with facial cellulite", "at least 15kg over weight", "bug-eyed", "immature", he was all those things and worse, said commentators, who said the Azzurri had been denied a legitimate goal and that Francesco Totti had been unfairly sent off. "We committed so many errors that we deserved to be shot in the chest. Instead we were shot in the back. This isn't sport. One can accept sporting defeats, with anger and grief, but one cannot accept betrayal," said Corriere dello Sport, beneath a one-word banner headline: "Thieves". Politicians echoed the players who said Italy had paid the price for lacking representation at Fifa's top echelons. Television and radio chat shows - including Vatican Radio - seethed with claims that Italy's five disallowed "goals" in the finals confirmed a conspiracy, with historians recalling outrages from other tournaments. "Italy has been thrown out of a dirty World Cup where referees and linesmen are used as hitmen," said Corriere della Sera. "No other team in the entire history of the World Cup has suffered so many injustices." Link to post Share on other sites
doggy-style 0 Posted June 21, 2002 Share Posted June 21, 2002 It's a conspiracy!!! I tell you Link to post Share on other sites
oo 1 Posted June 21, 2002 Share Posted June 21, 2002 It's absurd isn't it? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 21, 2002 Share Posted June 21, 2002 Someone win it. And SOON! I'm sick of it! Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted June 21, 2002 Author Share Posted June 21, 2002 Officially gutted. But the boys did well. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted June 21, 2002 Share Posted June 21, 2002 Oh well. The boys couldn't create a single chance by themselves in ninety minutes, the last thirty against ten men. Against Brazil and their dodgy defence. Lots of incident, but they'll be struggling to get ten minutes of highlights from this one. The Brazilian goalie (dodgy though he looked) never had to make a save. Could be a Brazil-Turkey revenge match in the semis. A total injustice, but no Ronaldinho for Brazil by the looks. He was the best player on the park today. Lets hope it's a better game tonight. Link to post Share on other sites
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