The official 2010 World Cup thread

[jimmy two times]

The England squad visited one of the townships today. Just heard a quote on the radio about it. 'It was so sad to see their forlorn and hopeless little faces' said Jamahl, aged 6.

[matthew123]

Bloody hell didn't someone else post that few days ago on this same thread (think it was quids) :-S

[Narnia]

Ladygooner Wrote:

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> Portugal 7 North Korea 0 - is this a World Cup

> record score?

No, there have been two 9-0's and a 10-1 in the finals. In 66 though N.Korea led Portugal 3-0 only to lose 5-3.

[Mick Mac]

matthew123 Wrote:

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> Bloody hell didn't someone else post that few days

> ago on this same thread (think it was quids) :-S

Thats why he is called jimmy 2 times.

[red devil]

...at least that's what his girlfriend claims

[jimmy two times]

Spain....best kit in the world cup?

[mockney piers]

?Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!

[Mick Mac]

you missed a letter. A bit ghoulish that one.

[mockney piers]

With the quality of gol you could say i missed about 20 o's.

Mind you hardly a towering performance from Torres (baddamtish).

Ghoul defo an English interpretaion of how that word is pronounced. Think daft S American commentators.

[kpc]

jimmy two times Wrote:

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> Spain....best kit in the world cup?

Quite like the USA kit with the white sash myself.

[Mick Mac]

fabio apparently has said to itv that john terry has made a big mistake. Does this put his selection in doubt?

[mockney piers]

I don't think we have the luxury to drop him, sadly.

[jimmy two times]

fcukin hope so arrogant tosser. Stick Dawson in.

[mockney piers]

?Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!

[citizenED]

0ne-all then, Piers?

[Annasfield]

Narnia Wrote:

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> No, there have been two 9-0's and a 10-1 in the

> finals. In 66 though N.Korea led Portugal 3-0 only

> to lose 5-3.

They did a feature from that match at half time during the Paraguay game on Saturday. Eusebio was immense.

Goodision looks the same today as it did 34 years ago.

[Mick Mac]

Immense - but it all ended in tears.

[jimmy two times]

Spain play beautiful football. I hope they win the world cup.

[mockney piers]

Me too jimmy. Me too.

['bout now]

Like it or not, everyone knows the coolest kit in world football is worn by Argentina. It's a fact.

[matthew123]

Capello gets all hypocritical, telling Italian TV - "I don't understand why he didn't speak with me, I read yesterday that John Terry said this. I don't understand why he didn't speak with me. When you speak you have to speak privately and not with you (the media)."

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/22062010/58/world-cup-2010-terry-admits-far.html

[SimonM]

That was one of the most one-sided 2-0 results I have ever seen. But if Chile now grind out a 0-0 draw and/or Switzerland win 3-0 then Villa's penalty miss could look pretty expensive..

[ruffers]

From The Guardian - According to our soon-to-be-published Paper View, since 1982, England have won 62% of all World Cup games shown on the BBC, but just 30% of those broadcast by ITV. Tomorrow's England v Slovenia game: on the Beeb.

When I mentioned this earlier I was joking.

[MrBen]

My brother has lucked out - a charity he's worked hard for before asked him to look after 100 HIV affected African kids by escorting them to 8 games at the World Cup if he could cover his flight across. He's been working hard, wearing his kilt to most games and blogging his once in a lifetime experience here.

He got allocated Bloemfontein as base and so has had the various joys of Greece vs Nigeria and soon, Honduras vs the Swiss. But today it's perhaps the biggest group game at that venue as the home nation take on the bickering frogs - and it should be a good game considering the situation....

It's also where England will play Germany in Second round if they come runner up in Group C,although perhaps might want to take the tartan skirt off for that one!

[matthew123]

If Spain beat Chile on Friday night they will finish ahead of Chile regardless of scoreline. Spain will top the group unless the Swiss can win by a bigger margin than the Spanish come Friday night.

If both the Swiss and Spain win 1-0 on Friday night, that would leave Chile and Switzerland in joint second place with the same goal difference of +1. I believe that Chile would progress in second place due to their head to head meeting with Switzerland which they won.