The Official Football Thread

[alien]

If we win 2 - 1 we are still in this World Cup! Hopefully one of theirs gets sent off too!

 

[alien]

I hate those horns. It sounds like bees.

 

[alien]

FULLTIME
Aust 1
Ghana 1

Now we need Ghana to beat Germany, and we need to beat Serbia.

 

[softlaw]

Ahhh well, i've watched my one game of soccer for this 4 years.

 

[king_sirro]

Oh well, this is how it goes sometimes. Australia very hard done by.

 

[Geo]

I blame the Manager… :wink:

 

[tiger_sean]

Proud to call myself Australian after that game. Real gutsy effort.
We have had no luck so far in this tournament but who knows we might get our luck in the last game beat serbia and have results go our way :wink:

 

[Lukic]

We've got Buckley's against Serbia.

 

[Marshall_magic]

We need to beat Serbia
Ghana over Germany

OR

We beat Serbia
Germany beat Ghana
Combined margin is greater than 5 points (would put us on 4 with Ghana, Germany on 6, us ahead of Ghana on goal difference, Serbia on 3).

Translation: We're stuffed.

 

[southerntiger]

I blame the Manager… :wink:

Its funny how we put in a good performance when he actually picked players in their natural positions.

Well played by the boys. Tough red card for Harry. But thats football.

 

[Chris]

HA HA HA!!! Go the Kiwis! I love it! I hope this game ruins the chances for those diving cheating Italians.

 

[king_sirro]

Can someone please tell me all the scenerios thats could happen tonight that would mean we go through to the final 16?

 

[AndTheKungFoSing]

We need to win, draw is no good.

Then if Ghana beat Germany, Ghana qualify first! We come second.
OR
Germany win and our combind results reduces our goal difference by 5 (We win 1-0 / Germany 4-0, We win 2-0 / Germany 3-0). Germany first us second…

 

[alien]

If we only lost against Germany by 1 or 2 goals the situation wouldn't be quite as bad for the Socceroos. We really needed to beat Ghana but that red card hurt us big time.

 

[Tigerpete]

What a shame! We got so close this morning. At half time things looked pretty bad, heck even after an hour of the game they looked bad but see what happens when we change our mentality and go for it. I"m proud of the boys this morning. Not many sides would've come back from a 4-0 hammering and nearly qualify. Look at France, they combusted! We may not have the skill level of the top nations but so many don't have the spirit and drive that we possess.

Kudos to our boys!

 

[alien]

<big>Algerian player slaps female reporter</big>

Algeria player Rafik Saifi slapped a female journalist across the face after his side's late World Cup loss to the United States this morning.

Yahoo! Sports reports that Saifi, who entered the game late as a substitute, struck writer Asma Halimi with his open hand in front of dozens of witnesses as he walked through the interview area. Halimi responded by striking the player in the mouth.

"I said nothing to him and he reached over and hit me," Halimi said to Yahoo! Sports. "So I hit him back. I said nothing to him first."

According to reports that Saifi previously took offense to something that Halimi wrote for her newspaper Competition.

"She was standing there and the guy came here and he hit her," said Francisco Aguilar Chang, a Guatemalan reporter who witnessed the assault.

"Then she hit him back and her nail caught his lip."

Algeria finished bottom of Group C with two losses and a draw as USA and England advanced to the second round.
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[Marshall_magic]

Italy just bombed out in the group stage finishing bottom after being dusted by Slovakia. Both finalists from 2006 have finished last in their groups now, that has to be some kind of record.

 

[alien]

soccer world cup song hehehe
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[Peaches]

Santo, Sam and Eds World Cup Fever has been a highlight for me. A very funny show. It would be great if they could get a weekly segment for half an hour during the week.

 

[alien]

hehehe