Ajaxtalk

Frans schreef:Just thought I'd tip my hat to the All Whites. For a country with about 25 full time professional players to go through the world cup unbeaten is pretty damn amazing. I know a lot of people will criticize them for being overly defensive but who cares? Against Italy they brought on a player who has a day job at a bank and still they manage to hold those diving w*nkers to a draw.

I was at the game in Wellington when they beat Bahrain to qualify and 35000 people went absolutely nuts - I thought it couldn't get any better. Then NZ held Slovakia in their first game and people really started to take notice. The last two games had hundreds of thousands of people getting up at 2am to watch the games. Football has been leading the news every night.

Anyway, it's been fun seeing the country take an interest... Hopefully the sport keeps growing here. All that's left is for Holland to win the cup

Jojo schreef:Donovan's late goal was such a devastating moment for us as we were hoping to go through. Congrats to all of USA fans, our team is a little to inexperienced for this kind of tournament. Considering that population of Slovenia is around 2 million they did well and made us all proud. Now the only team left for me to cheer for is Holland, so hope they go all the way.
Goodbye from Slovenia

Orange14 schreef:Our Captain just netted his second for Uruguay.

SPL schreef:A great goal . Was watching at my son's cricket club and everyone was going on about what agoal .
I just said he plays for my team Ajax and I have seen him scoring a few times like that . And then I thought oh dear now the world really knows he can play . 40m euros min but apart from maybe Barca who else will afford him ! Man U cannot and I am not sure Chelsea will buy him .Maybe we will be lucky.

Kowalczyk schreef:

Frans schreef:Just thought I'd tip my hat to the All Whites. For a country with about 25 full time professional players to go through the world cup unbeaten is pretty damn amazing. I know a lot of people will criticize them for being overly defensive but who cares? Against Italy they brought on a player who has a day job at a bank and still they manage to hold those diving w*nkers to a draw.

I was at the game in Wellington when they beat Bahrain to qualify and 35000 people went absolutely nuts - I thought it couldn't get any better. Then NZ held Slovakia in their first game and people really started to take notice. The last two games had hundreds of thousands of people getting up at 2am to watch the games. Football has been leading the news every night.

Anyway, it's been fun seeing the country take an interest... Hopefully the sport keeps growing here. All that's left is for Holland to win the cup

I hear you.

New Zealand were fantastic. Thoroughly enjoyed watching them. So much heart, it's amazing. Loved it.

Cult heroes.

K.

aveslacker schreef:What a horrible call on England's would-be second goal. Having said that, however, England were still very, very poor. Shocking.

Orange14 schreef:

aveslacker schreef:What a horrible call on England's would-be second goal. Having said that, however, England were still very, very poor. Shocking.

Not really, I think they were rated way beyond their ability. They had a weak backline and a midfield that seemed to have no clue at all. They were never any threat on offense and Capello now joins Lippi as a failed Italian manager.

SPL schreef:It may have been better if the second goal stood but we should have been 4 down at that stage . Even my wife couldn't understand how Germany did not score 7or 8 goals . The worst WC by an English side in my lifetime ie 1966 onwards .

This England side is overrated and overpaid , trouble is apart from Rooney ( was he actually at the WC )
they are all coming up for 30 plus and England does not have much talent coming through . The big clubs just pay lip service to english kids. Someone needs to stop this and make the clubs play say 6 english per game .

Anyway now the country can return to normal and I will just keep cheering on Holland and also Suarez .

So England to just scrape second in their group table, and loose to Germany in the round of last 16.

The aging cripple Ferdinand only started 13 games last season, and the molasses-slow John Terry had already lost his positioning sense long before his sexual activities took precedent over his football.

My head says Germany, my heart says Brazil.

Dark Horses - Uruguay.

philippe schreef:Very disappointing game for Holland today.