WORLD CUP 2010

[Giles]

Our achilles heel is Rooney.  The USA coach says they will not try and wind him up:

I'll be on Skype…G

[Beatle]

yep…...

[hectic]

And for the love of god, please no mention of 1966.

If England makes the final I will eat my undersized 634S.

[LandoCal126 0]

@Giles:

Lando, one thing is for 100% certain, USA will not make the final…If they do, I'll give you anything you want from the stock room...G

Anything huh…

[stever]

@stever:

giles' parcel has been in customs since about 10 o clock last night
lando's parcel cleared customs about midday on tuesday
hanging out next to the front door!

and giles' parcel won by about 3 hours! thanks guys!

[Giles]

Yep Lando, but:

a) It won't happen, and
b) I don't hold them in stock and if I did, they'd be in the safe which is not in the stockroom.

G

[Giles]

So Lando and Stever, in the warm up USA V England qualifier (who's parcel will get to Oz first), England won.  The scene is set…G

[LandoCal126 0]

I knew you would say something along those lines. And G, the pressure is one you guys. No surprise if we lose but if you all lose… Uh oh! 

[Beatle]

@LandoCal126:

@Giles:

Lando, one thing is for 100% certain, USA will not make the final…If they do, I'll give you anything you want from the stock room...G

Hey, I got no issue with that! I will be rooting my face off on Saturday! I say we all Skype and watch the game…

lando - the USA team is not as bad as you or some might think… on the official bet list that we run at work my tipp is England :USA 0:1

[Beatle]

okay - merge scrambled the posts up a bit - but still - World Cup and soccer input - right here..

[Seul]

My teams:

Mexico
Slovenia
France
Argentina

In that order.

[Dexter_]

Huge footie fan over here. Too bad Hawaii's own Brian Ching didn't make the cut for the US team but hey we might not make it that far anyway.

Agree w/L its expected we'll lose but if the three lions go down in their first game, against the Americans no less, well…  ??? ???

[Beatle]

LOL..4 STARS 4 GERMANY

[shoque]

I'm an absolute soccer noob.

Objectively (if that is even possible), what teams are the favourites this world cup?

[Giles]

I got this from a customer this morning - he's Swiss so probably not an authority:

Today the madness starts guess you're betting on Lichtenstein, Swaziland or Andorra to make the finals?

[Beatle]

Damn .. Ref should have given that 11 m ..

[Giles]

I have to profess, I do not come from a great footballing family.  My father lives in South Africa and he's "escaped" to Greece for the duration…

[that_was_easy]

Tomorrow is probably the only day I can devote entirely to soccer/futbol until the end of June.  I must apologize now to the Queen's subjects of the board.  My fanaticism is going to be heaped upon USA side of the UK/USA match.  Very much looking forward to it 

[Beatle]

Uruguay - France should be really interesting*..

U:F 0:1
A:N 3:0
Sl:Gh1:0
E:USA0:1
A:Sl0:3
G:Aus1:0
Se:Gh2:1

[that_was_easy]

I haven't gotten to see either team play but I hear France players think they're hot shit and Uruguay are really getting up for the game.  I'm curiouis to see how quickly France gives up defending a counter attack that Uruguay is reluctant to use.  Can't wait to see their offensive strategy though.