well england are out too wooohooo!!!

Too much to say...

Rooney did not deserve a red card. Anyone who is tripped like that steps back in reflex. At first I thought he should have got a free kick, but you can see on the replays that he's fighting un-nessecarily for the ball. Yellow at most.

The person who SHOULD have got the red was Ronaldo. He is the most shit-stirring little cunt I have ever seen! Before the match he headbutted Rooney. Then when Rooney finished his little scuffle, who was it who ran straight to the ref like a little boy? Ronaldo. He got the ref's attention. He went out of his way to annoy Rooney. He's his fucking team-mate at United for fuck's sake!! And then, after Rooney is off, the camera cut to him, and the little fucking cunt winked at his bench! HE HAD THE AUDACITY TO WINK!!

But that's what you get when you've got some Swede at the helm, making bad decisions. Oh yeah, let's take Walcott. Untried, untested, unused. We could've had Defoe! But noooo, let's take him along as a novelty mascott. Yeah, that'll help.

Crouch can't take Pennies. Take it from someone who watches all the England games. Crouch is hopeless at Penalties.

To be perfectly honest, I was on the verge of tears at the end of the match. We played so well. Even with 10 men. It took the Portugese 120 minutes to beat us, and even then it was with pennies.

Our best chance in 40 years... gone. Maybe we'll do better under someone who has grown up and played English football. We'll have Owen, Rooney and Crouch still in 4 years. We'll have an experienced Walcott. Same with Lennon and Downing. The two Coles will have matured, and Carrick, Carragher and Hargreaves will have upped their games. But that's it for Neville. That's it for Beckham.

And, once again, that's it for the WC.

I don't care what happens now. It means sweet fuck all to me. I'm not coming back to this thread, unless it means I can shout some of my anger and anguish at some unlucky member who says slightly the wrong thing.

My last words:

France will lose to Brazil tonight.
Germany will fight a close contest with Italy but pull through.
Brazil will go on to slaughter Portugal, and beat Germany on penalties in the final.
And Portugal will win in extra time against Italy for the third place spot.

well, the goalie for portugal was amazing. He stopped your boys cold. THat and Beck's was out. And at this moment, France is beating Brazil and Italy will win it all if Brazil loses. Germany sucks

Germany is very strong, it's hard to tell whether they or Italy will advance. I think France will mop up against Portugal. Zidane didn't look like 34 during his game, he looked like 24; shouldn't be retiring.

Let's go Italy!

So apparently the brits lost.

My dad said the british fans are going to burn down berlin.

and kill some people named ronaldo, whining bastard

That Germany game was awesome.

Brazil lost. Too many stars can't make a great team, it's a good team, just not great team.

BAH!! I can't help it!! I've got to keep in this thread. :cry:

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Yes, Ricardo IS a good Keeper. I hate to say it, but he is good.

As for Becks - hes resigned as Captain. He'll probably play 5 or 6 more matches, to get his 100 caps for England, then he might resign altogether. His career is going nowhere at Real Madrid - being England Captain made him what he is.

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I've noticed that my Brazil prediction was awfully wrong. Bloody French.

I now say the Germans will win. :p

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And yes, Sov and Grue, like true English Football Fans, we all have a dark side. Expect German police to arrest hundreds... and Christiano Ronaldo is not going to be able to show his face in Britain again. I wouldn't be surprised if Rooney, Neville, Ferdinand, and maybe a couple of others, really hurt him in Pre-Season Training. The whiney bastard.

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Forgot a bit. :p

They're great individuals. They play as individuals. They don't bond as a team. That's their main problem.

Look at something like the Dutch side in the 70s - 74 particularly. Throughout the whole tournament they played Total Football as a team - and they were mostly great individuals playing together.

And Italy is going to the World Cup. I am so excited. The game was awesome.

Wow, the in the second half of the over time, score at the 13 minutes. Dam, once again, German just can't beat the curse.

Methinks I'm the curse here.

I say England will beat Portugal. We lose.
I say Brazil will thrash France. They lose.
I say Germany will beat Italy and win the WC. Italy get two raggy goals. Cheeky bastards. Germany should've gone on to Penalties and beaten them.

Hmmm...

COME ON YOU FRENCHIES!!!

Heh heh h... oh bugger. That means Portugal will win.

BAH!

Should be Italy over France.

I think its going to be a great match. But i really want to see Italy pull through. I love Pirlo so much. He is the shit, especially on that back heel pass to score the first goal against Germany. But i do think France has more depth on the bench which could hurt the Italians. Oh well, LETS GO ITALY.

It was a good game. Probably would have come down to shots from the mark if Zidane didn't score. I think Christiano Ronaldo had a good game, despite getting booed.

On that note, I think all you Brits (Lenny included, of course) are just sore losers looking for someone to blame. Clearly Rooney stepped on the guy's groin, and that was why he got a red card.

Italy 2-1 over France is my prediction for the final.

Of course we're sore losers. We're too passionate to take controversial decisions lightly.

Still, it was EVERYONE but the Portugese who booed Ronaldo. So there are obviously at least 30,000 other people in Germany who don't like him, and there's bound to be people elsewhere.

Until Ronaldo (and the other Portugese players) crowded round the ref and started whinging, he looked as if he was only going to give a free kick. Usually you'd pull the card out straight away.

Saying that, though, they're not allowed to book for dives any more. Thank God the Portugese aren't in the Final - it'd be a fiasco. And the guy who is reffing the final is the guy who gave Rooney his red.

And I've just completely lost my train of... there it is! How sweet it was to watch the Portugese get beat because of a Penalty. :) The Europeans know how to take penalties - as hard as you can.

I bet money on the French.

To say they started off so badly, they've done pretty well now. Then again, most teams that win the WC have an awful start. :p

I'd agree.

Jesus... Zidane has just been sent off. Stupid, stupid man!!

And it's that bloody ref again. What is it with him and sending teams key players off?!

Still, France look like they're playing better... they'll hold it until penalties. And the Italians can't do penalties, apparently.