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The World Cup - Germany - 2006; Inc. Predictions Game!
Topic Started: May 18 2006, 02:32 PM (4,688 Views)
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Bugger it. I wagered actual money on that damn England match. :angry:

*sings* "I shot the telly, but I should have shot the referee..."
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A perfectly normal day, this was. Let's see:

- Portugal beats England in the penalties, which is becoming boring (thanks, Ricardo, you're great and will always have a special place in my heart ;) )

- England supporters blaim the referee.

- When a guy is kicked in his balls, it hurts! Then the guy who kicked him goes out.

Everything is normal in football land. ;)


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Jul 1 2006, 05:49 PM
Well, that game confirmed three things.

The better team doesn't always win.
Cheats do prosper

and

There's no such thing as Karma in football.

Sorry, man, I have to comment this. ;)

"The better team doesn't always win"
- Of course not! In Portugal we are aware of that since the semi-final with England in 1966 World Cup.

"Cheats do prosper"
- I don't see where that comment fits regarding the game today!

"There's no such thing as Karma in football"
- Tell that to Ricardo. ;)
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As for the 'cheats do prosper' comment - I'm talking about the amount of 'play acting'... the Portuguese players going down like a sack of potatoes when the England players hardly touched them - one even clutching his face when nothing happening to his face (a la Rivaldo, but not as blatant). I'm talking about Portuguese players going down "injured" when England were breaking and then remonstrating with the England players and the ref when they didn't instantly kick the ball out. I'm talking about Ronaldo winding Rooney up just before kick-off and then running over to the ref in the Rooney incident in order to get him sent off and then winking to his team-mates afterwards.

That's what I call cheating - and he certainly prospered. The Portuguese team didn't deserve to win and they certainly didn't play fair. It was very poor sportsmanship indeed - if that's the way the team wants to win and conducts itself on the pitch, then I would feel ashamed to be a Portugal supporter. Then again, they made their intentions quite clear in the second round, didn't they?

Ricardo did well saving those penalties - all due praise to him... but I still haven't forgiven him for his smug antics in Euro 2004. If Karma existed, he'd have failed to stop every single one of those shots. ;)
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Beatle that was a load of bollocks read here read at macca about what i said about the referee. England were poor, Portugal were pathetic. Ronaldo should have been sent off before a kick had been taken. Figo should have been sent off against Holland how many were sent off against the Dutch. The French will murder you.

Oh yes 1966 the venue was moved from Anfield to Wembley WHY MONEY, it's FIFA. You would have been beaten 4-0 in the north coz the southerners can't sing.

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Here's a slideshow of that sad match. :(
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/slideshow/...20706&showimg=0
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Jul 2 2006, 07:46 AM
- When a guy is kicked in his balls, it hurts! Then the guy who kicked him goes out.

No one was kicked in the balls. If you saw the game you probably saw that it was an accident, as Rooney fell over and stepped on him becase, well, he was there. The ref whistled a foul but decided to send him off after there had been complaints from both sides.
That was not a violation deserving a red card. Sorry.

I agree with Andy with the rest. Too much play acting going on, and that is despicable. Is that what professional players are supposed to do? The thing is that so many players do it and the referees can't always tell.

As for the penalties, the English were just worn out. If not even Gerrard can score then you can begin to understand the level of tiredness. Yes, both teams played for the same amount of time, but the English were down to 10 and some players have had very rough seasons. Or it's just bad luck haunting the English and causing them to get disqualified every bloody time. Who knows.
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...one even clutching his face when nothing happening to his face...

I agree with your entire comment, Andy. Sadly, the 'face' incident that you mentioned (quoted above) was actually praised as a good move by the U.S. commentators. I was embarrased listening to them. They thought it a smart ploy on Portugal's part.

Having had the opportunity to be in England a few weeks ago, I realize how much better the commentary should be. The Americans seem to be looking for the big, bold, brazen move that brings out the blood, whereas the English were more interested in commentating on the beauty of the game. I understand why there is an 'ugly American' stereotype.

There was a commercial series I saw in England (by Budweiser) which mocked U.S. commentators and ended with the tag line "You do the football, we'll do the beer," or something like that. I'm sad to say that it rings very true.
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DAMNIT!! No more World Cup for me now that England's out! Like Kink said, supporting England is torture, trully is sometimes! I was in a foul mood all day yesterday over it, still p*ssed off now thinking about it. Arrrggghhhh......lousy w*nkers......
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- When a guy is kicked in his balls, it hurts! Then the guy who kicked him goes out.

No one was kicked in the balls. If you saw the game you probably saw that it was an accident, as Rooney fell over and stepped on him becase, well, he was there. The ref whistled a foul but decided to send him off after there had been complaints from both sides.
That was not a violation deserving a red card. Sorry.

I agree with Andy with the rest. Too much play acting going on, and that is despicable. Is that what professional players are supposed to do? The thing is that so many players do it and the referees can't always tell.

As for the penalties, the English were just worn out. If not even Gerrard can score then you can begin to understand the level of tiredness. Yes, both teams played for the same amount of time, but the English were down to 10 and some players have had very rough seasons. Or it's just bad luck haunting the English and causing them to get disqualified every bloody time. Who knows.


I agree with you. the red card was ridiculous. It wasn't even a yellow. Ronaldo, drop dead! He wanted to get Rooney sent off. Not fair play!
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sadly Ronaldo knows which buttons to press to make Wayne go over the top :( I think it was the push on him rather than the tackle that sent him off :( :(

wish I could be at Utd's first training day at Carrington :whistle: like I have said before - wonder if he will be allowed back into Manchester after that :rolleyes:

does anyone know if any player as scored a penatly to knock england (or another UK team) out of a tournament and got a good response by fans the following season ???
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Well, since a lot of people are so shocked that seem to have already forgotten what REALLY happened, I'm posting this link to this video for you all to review it. There already are hundreds of videos like this all over the net, but I chose one spoken in an oriental language - maybe Japanese, I don't know - on purpose. You can't understand what they say, their voice tonality and vocal expressions are enough to understand what they think about it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WcWksCC4EBo&sea...oney%20portugal

Now, about that comment on feeling ashamed to be a Portugal supporter. I would only feel ashamed of being a Portugal supporter if Portugal supporters didn't know how to lose a match as, apparently, SOME England supporters are not showing being capable of. But, football history in the last decades has taught me that many, many times, so it's no surprise.

Also, I'd like to note that Portugal is the only national team of the four which has never been a World Cup winner and is the one with less resources. Portuguese team have players in major clubs of all the other 3 countries and no player of the other 3 countries plays in portuguese teams.

So, to what I'm concerned, Portugal has come much further than I would expect it to. The same way England hasn't won a match with Portugal since 1966, we haven't won a match with France in decades as well. Therefore, if Portugal loses I assure you I won't blame the ref or Zidane! C'est la vie!
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Forget the Portugeuse game, England did NOTHING to suggest they could win the World Cup.

They struggled the whole tournament.

And you want to know why? because the vast majoity of the players are technically inept.

Sure, the team is littered with big names, but most of the teams they faced - and I include Ecuador - were technically superior.

They passed the ball better, they were quicker in thought and skill - and that's were England still come up short.

England is a team full of POWERFUL players.

They do not have one single football genius

Beckham aint one, he's only dangerous at set pieces. Gerrard aint one, a hard worker if nothing else. Lampard simply can't hack it at this level. Cole? far too inconsistent and lightweight.

Rooney aint one, he's just a powerhouse too easy to wind up and I doubt he'll ever have the savvy to play at that level.

The English media hype these players as world class.

They're not.

And time and time again at major championsips this is shown to be true.
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Jul 3 2006, 12:24 PM
Forget the Portugeuse game, England did NOTHING to suggest they could win the World Cup.

They struggled the whole tournament.

And you want to know why?  because the vast majoity of the players are technically inept.

Sure, the team is littered with big names, but most of the teams they faced -  and I include Ecuador -  were technically superior.

They passed the ball better, they were quicker in thought and skill - and that's were England still come up short.

England is a team full of POWERFUL players.

They do not have one single football genius

Beckham aint one, he's only dangerous at set pieces. Gerrard aint one, a hard worker if nothing else. Lampard simply can't hack it at this level. Cole? far too inconsistent and lightweight.

Rooney aint one,  he's just a powerhouse too easy to wind up and I doubt he'll ever have the savvy to play at that level.

The English media hype these players as world class.

They're not.

And time and time again at major championsips this is shown to be true.

...and being Scottish, you have no bias at all. :P Sorry Eric, but that's tosh (with the exception of your first two lines, which are about right). These are players who are stars for some of Europe's top clubs... they don't get to play for the likes of Liverpool, Chelsea, Man Utd, Real Madrid & Bayern Munich by being technically inept. ;)

I think the manager failed to get the best out of the players available - and the players available largely failed to recapture their best form.
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Results from the quarter-finals:

England 0 - 0 Portugal (Portugal won on penalties)
Brazil 0 - 1 France

Um... OK. :( Putting the disappointment of England being knocked out behind me, the scoreboard now looks like this;

Predictions League Table

58 - matts
53 - Colin
48 - JeffLynnesBeard
45 - beep, FamousGroupie
41 - ~Lovely Rita~
39 - bluemeanie
34 - kink
27 - Composition Of Sound
15 - McGoo
8 - wings4ever_vzla
4 - JLF_beatle, Kit Kat
3 - Beatlesluver, invisible jones
1 - youngformyage

Look familiar? That's because nobody scored anything! :lol:
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Can I have your predictions for the first semi-final, please;

Tuesday 4th July, 2006

Germany v Italy
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I'm backing the host nation to go all the way...

Germany 2 - 1 Italy
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Germany 1 - 1 Italy (Italy to win on penalties)
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- England supporters blaim the referee.

Yes, and do you know why?

You obviously don't know the history between Britain and Argentina, that fact that the two countries went to war over the Falkland Islands, and the fact that Britain whipped Argentina's a*se, and the fact that all Argentineans have been bitter ever since.

So it stands to reason a very bitter Argentinean referee is going to favour Portugal :rolleyes: .
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Germany 1 - 0 Italy
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Germany 1-1 Italy Germany wins on penalties.
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Germany, 0 - Italy, 0

Germany wins on penalties
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- England supporters blaim the referee.

Yes, and do you know why?

You obviously don't know the history between Britain and Argentina, that fact that the two countries went to war over the Falkland Islands, and the fact that Britain whipped Argentina's a*se, and the fact that all Argentineans have been bitter ever since.

So it stands to reason a very bitter Argentinean referee is going to favour Portugal :rolleyes: .

I know perfectly the recent history between both countries as, I'm sure, FIFA heading men do.

So, are you saying that FIFA wanted England out? ;)
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Forget the Portugeuse game, England did NOTHING to suggest they could win the World Cup.

They struggled the whole tournament.

And you want to know why?  because the vast majoity of the players are technically inept.

Sure, the team is littered with big names, but most of the teams they faced -  and I include Ecuador -  were technically superior.

They passed the ball better, they were quicker in thought and skill - and that's were England still come up short.

England is a team full of POWERFUL players.

They do not have one single football genius

Beckham aint one, he's only dangerous at set pieces. Gerrard aint one, a hard worker if nothing else. Lampard simply can't hack it at this level. Cole? far too inconsistent and lightweight.

Rooney aint one,  he's just a powerhouse too easy to wind up and I doubt he'll ever have the savvy to play at that level.

The English media hype these players as world class.

They're not.

And time and time again at major championsips this is shown to be true.

...and being Scottish, you have no bias at all. :P Sorry Eric, but that's tosh (with the exception of your first two lines, which are about right). These are players who are stars for some of Europe's top clubs... they don't get to play for the likes of Liverpool, Chelsea, Man Utd, Real Madrid & Bayern Munich by being technically inept. ;)

I think the manager failed to get the best out of the players available - and the players available largely failed to recapture their best form.

Andy, you can turn this into a Scotland v England issue if you wish but the facts are England have no flair, no fluency, little technical ability.

Ecuador played better football than England and should have put them out.

In fact, Trinidad and Tobago were easier on the eye than England.

Sure the English have very talented individuals but my point is that the English media and it seems the English public think they are far better than they actually are.

Players like Gerrard, Lampard, Beckham etc are very good players but at their respective clubs they play with very talented foreign players who have excellent technical ability.

It always speaks volumes to me that very few English players play abroad in the technically better, but admittedly less exciting European leagues.

I have never considered Beckham world class,. Sure he is probably the best at set pieces in the world - but an all-round world class player?

forget it.




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I was just teasing about the English/Scottish thing, but I'm sure you'll agree that most Scottish football supporters don't exactly wish England well. ;)

I think Beckham justifies his selection in the England and Real Madrid team... although perhaps a more balanced manager would have dropped him when he wasn't fit enough, but oh-no, not Svenn. :rolleyes:

Not everyone can be Zidane, or Ronaldinho (who had a very ordinary world cup, IMO), but I think he's up there with Figo or Luis Enrique as a moderately complete midfielder with one or two minor weaknesses. I think it's unfair to label Beckham as just a free-kick specialist and this he's improved his gameplay since he left Manchester Utd.

Our real problem was a lack of attacking options because of Svenn's bizarre squad selection... but we can analyse all we like - we're out now and we have to look to the future. ^_^
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- England supporters blaim the referee.

Yes, and do you know why?

You obviously don't know the history between Britain and Argentina, that fact that the two countries went to war over the Falkland Islands, and the fact that Britain whipped Argentina's a*se, and the fact that all Argentineans have been bitter ever since.

So it stands to reason a very bitter Argentinean referee is going to favour Portugal :rolleyes: .

I know perfectly the recent history between both countries as, I'm sure, FIFA heading men do.

So, are you saying that FIFA wanted England out? ;)

I think that's a very large stretch of the imagination - I don't buy the fact the the Argentinian referee was biased at all.
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- England supporters blaim the referee.

Yes, and do you know why?

You obviously don't know the history between Britain and Argentina, that fact that the two countries went to war over the Falkland Islands, and the fact that Britain whipped Argentina's a*se, and the fact that all Argentineans have been bitter ever since.

So it stands to reason a very bitter Argentinean referee is going to favour Portugal :rolleyes: .


So, are you saying that FIFA wanted England out? ;)

I didn't say that, read my previous post. Of course it could be that FIFA still don't know the history between the two countries :hmm: Argentina still claim the Falkland islands as theirs to this very day <_<
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Germany 1 - 2 Italy
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Italy 1-0 Germany

Portugal 1-2 France
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Portugal v France 0-3
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Results from the first semi-final:

Germany 0 - 2 Italy

Nobody but matts predicted a straight Italy win, so the league table has only changed very slightly. Colin is the only person who can now catch matts for the top spot... and he has to get the Portugal v France game spot on to stand a chance!

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53 - Colin
48 - JeffLynnesBeard
45 - beep, FamousGroupie
41 - ~Lovely Rita~
39 - bluemeanie
34 - kink
27 - Composition Of Sound
15 - McGoo
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As Portugal have knocked out both of my favourite teams Im supporting France.
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As Portugal have knocked out both of my favourite teams Im supporting France.

I'm with you on that one!
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PORTUGAL GO!!!

Come on France. Portugal are rubbish.
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...and France are through to the final! Excellent! :D

The Portuguese again repeating their bad sportsmanship on the field - I've seen less diving in the Summer Olympics! ;)
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Jul 3 2006, 02:14 AM
Now, about that comment on feeling ashamed to be a Portugal supporter. I would only feel ashamed of being a Portugal supporter if Portugal supporters didn't know how to lose a match as, apparently, SOME England supporters are not showing being capable of. But, football history in the last decades has taught me that many, many times, so it's no surprise.

Commisserations, Helder - I obviously know what it's like as a supporter when your team gets knocked out - sorry you've got stick for the actions of the Portuguese team - that's the passion football provokes, I guess.

Scolari was hardly a 'good loser' at the final whistle, was he?!?
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...and France are through to the final! Excellent! :D

The Portuguese again repeating their bad sportsmanship on the field - I've seen less diving in the Summer Olympics! ;)

I'm glad we won't see Ronaldo in the final, the dive at the end of the first half was just ridiculous. And then he wanted a penalty, of course Scolari going crazy at the sideline..
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Out on her Royal Yacht (borrowed for the
occasion) The Queen was enjoying the sea
air when she spied a man in the water off
the port bow - clearly being menaced by
a very large shark.

Through her binoculars she could see it
was Christian Ronaldo, struggling
frantically to free himself from the
jaws of a 20 foot shark! Her Maj
ordered the captain to change course
to try and save the poor man, but she
knew the yacht's top speed would never
get them there in time.

At that exact moment a speedboat
containing three men wearing white
tops sped into view. One of the men
took aim at the shark and fired a
harpoon into its ribs, immobilising
it instantly. The other two reached
out and pulled Ronaldo from the water
and, using long clubs, beat the shark
to death.

They bundled the bleeding, semi-conscious
Ronaldo into the speedboat along with
the dead shark and prepared for a hasty
retreat, when they heard frantic calling ......

It was the Queen calling them to the
yacht. When they reached it, the Queen
went into raptures about the rescue and
said, "I'll give you a knighthood for
your brave actions. I thought the England
team would hate Ronaldo after the World
Cup. But I see that the England team are
true heroes and should serve as a model
for sportsmanship to other countries."

She knighted them and sailed away.

As she departed Rooney asked the others,
"Who was that?"

"That," Beckham answered, "was our Queen.
She rules the Commonwealth and knows
everything about our country."

"Well," Rooney replied, "she knows F***
all about shark fishing. How's the
bait holding up?"
Jayne x

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bluemeanie
Jul 6 2006, 10:34 AM
Out on her Royal Yacht (borrowed for the
occasion) The Queen was enjoying the sea
air when she spied a man in the water off
the port bow - clearly being menaced by
a very large shark.

Through her binoculars she could see it
was Christian Ronaldo, struggling
frantically to free himself from the
jaws of a 20 foot shark! Her Maj
ordered the captain to change course
to try and save the poor man, but she
knew the yacht's top speed would never
get them there in time.

At that exact moment a speedboat
containing three men wearing white
tops sped into view. One of the men
took aim at the shark and fired a
harpoon into its ribs, immobilising
it instantly. The other two reached
out and pulled Ronaldo from the water
and, using long clubs, beat the shark
to death.

They bundled the bleeding, semi-conscious
Ronaldo into the speedboat along with
the dead shark and prepared for a hasty
retreat, when they heard frantic calling ......

It was the Queen calling them to the
yacht. When they reached it, the Queen
went into raptures about the rescue and
said, "I'll give you a knighthood for
your brave actions. I thought the England
team would hate Ronaldo after the World
Cup. But I see that the England team are
true heroes and should serve as a model
for sportsmanship to other countries."

She knighted them and sailed away.

As she departed Rooney asked the others,
"Who was that?"

"That," Beckham answered, "was our Queen.
She rules the Commonwealth and knows
everything about our country."

"Well," Rooney replied, "she knows F***
all about shark fishing. How's the
bait holding up?"

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Touch down!
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bluemeanie
Jul 6 2006, 01:34 AM
Out on her Royal Yacht (borrowed for the
occasion) The Queen was enjoying the sea
air when she spied a man in the water off
the port bow - clearly being menaced by
a very large shark.

Through her binoculars she could see it
was Christian Ronaldo, struggling
frantically to free himself from the
jaws of a 20 foot shark! Her Maj
ordered the captain to change course
to try and save the poor man, but she
knew the yacht's top speed would never
get them there in time.

At that exact moment a speedboat
containing three men wearing white
tops sped into view. One of the men
took aim at the shark and fired a
harpoon into its ribs, immobilising
it instantly. The other two reached
out and pulled Ronaldo from the water
and, using long clubs, beat the shark
to death.

They bundled the bleeding, semi-conscious
Ronaldo into the speedboat along with
the dead shark and prepared for a hasty
retreat, when they heard frantic calling ......

It was the Queen calling them to the
yacht. When they reached it, the Queen
went into raptures about the rescue and
said, "I'll give you a knighthood for
your brave actions. I thought the England
team would hate Ronaldo after the World
Cup. But I see that the England team are
true heroes and should serve as a model
for sportsmanship to other countries."

She knighted them and sailed away.

As she departed Rooney asked the others,
"Who was that?"

"That," Beckham answered, "was our Queen.
She rules the Commonwealth and knows
everything about our country."

"Well," Rooney replied, "she knows F***
all about shark fishing. How's the
bait holding up?"

LOL :lol:
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Jul 5 2006, 08:34 PM
Out on her Royal Yacht (borrowed for the
occasion) The Queen was enjoying the sea
air when she spied a man in the water off
the port bow - clearly being menaced by
a very large shark.

Through her binoculars she could see it
was Christian Ronaldo, struggling
frantically to free himself from the
jaws of a 20 foot shark! Her Maj
ordered the captain to change course
to try and save the poor man, but she
knew the yacht's top speed would never
get them there in time.

At that exact moment a speedboat
containing three men wearing white
tops sped into view. One of the men
took aim at the shark and fired a
harpoon into its ribs, immobilising
it instantly. The other two reached
out and pulled Ronaldo from the water
and, using long clubs, beat the shark
to death.

They bundled the bleeding, semi-conscious
Ronaldo into the speedboat along with
the dead shark and prepared for a hasty
retreat, when they heard frantic calling ......

It was the Queen calling them to the
yacht. When they reached it, the Queen
went into raptures about the rescue and
said, "I'll give you a knighthood for
your brave actions. I thought the England
team would hate Ronaldo after the World
Cup. But I see that the England team are
true heroes and should serve as a model
for sportsmanship to other countries."

She knighted them and sailed away.

As she departed Rooney asked the others,
"Who was that?"

"That," Beckham answered, "was our Queen.
She rules the Commonwealth and knows
everything about our country."

"Well," Rooney replied, "she knows F***
all about shark fishing. How's the
bait holding up?"

HAHAHAHAHA!!LMAO :lol:
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I may not be here tomorrow so my prediction for 3rd place is............


Germany 2 - 1 Portugal
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Portugal 2 - 0 France
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So, France go through to the World Cup Final!

Portugal 0 - 1 France

Nobody got the result exactly, but plenty of people predicted a France win, which means the table looks like this;

Predictions League Table

60 - matts
54 - Colin
49 - JeffLynnesBeard
46 - beep, FamousGroupie
42 - ~Lovely Rita~
39 - bluemeanie
35 - kink
28 - Composition Of Sound
15 - McGoo
8 - wings4ever_vzla
4 - JLF_beatle, Kit Kat
3 - Beatlesluver, invisible jones
1 - youngformyage
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Jul 7 2006, 05:59 AM
My prediction:

Portugal 2 - 0 France
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That game has already been played, Ogie! ^_^
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Can I have your predictions for the following games, please;

Third Place Play-Off

Saturday July 8th, 2006

Germany v Portugal


and


World Cup Final

Sunday July 9th, 2006

Italy v France
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3rd Place Play-Off

Germany 2 - 0 Portugal

World Cup Final

Italy 2 - 1 France
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Third Place Play-Off

Germany 2 - 0 Portugal


and


World Cup Final


Italy 0 - 1 France
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Third Place Play-Off

Germany 1 - 0 Portugal


and


World Cup Final


Italy 2 - 0 France
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My predictions:

Third place play-off

Germany 1 - 0 Portugal


World Cup Final

Italy 1 - 0 France
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Third place play-off
Germany 1-0 Portugal


World Cup Final
Italy 1-0 France


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Third Place Play-Off

Germany v Portugal 2-0



World Cup Final

Italy v France 1-1 France win on penalties
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ogoble
Jul 7 2006, 05:59 AM
My prediction:

Portugal 2 - 0 France
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That game has already been played, Ogie! ^_^

:blush: You see how much I keep up with it. :D
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Keep up :lol:
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Jul 7 2006, 03:53 PM
Keep up :lol:

;) okay...

How about:

Third Place

Portugal 1 - 0 Germany



Final

France 2 - 1 Italy
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My predictions:

Third place play-off

Germany 1 - 0 Portugal


World Cup Final

Italy 1 - 2 France
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So it's congratulations to matts, I'm afraid I have to concede. Give a swig of that champaign matts, I'm dieing of the thirst :D
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Italy 2 - France 2 (Italy win on penalties)
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Come on Italy !!!!!!!!!
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Congratulations to Italy!

2006 World Cup Winners!!

Deserved winners, even though France probably played better during the game as a whole.
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So, that's it - the World Cup Finals, 2006, are over.

Winner: Italy
Runner-up: France
3rd Place: Germany
4th Place: Portugal

and our league table looks like this:

Predictions League Table

Top 5:

1st: 61 - matts
2nd: 58 - Colin
3rd: 50 - JeffLynnesBeard
4th: 47 - beep & FamousGroupie
5th: 43 - bluemeanie, ~Lovely Rita~

Roll of honour:

36 - kink
28 - Composition Of Sound
15 - McGoo
8 - wings4ever_vzla
4 - JLF_beatle, Kit Kat
3 - Beatlesluver, invisible jones
1 - youngformyage

Congratulations to matts who won despite a late resurgance by Colin. Thank you to everyone who took part, it was a lot of fun. ^_^
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I think Zidane was very silly for what he did but Italy were worthy winners :D
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I really want to know what the Italian player said to make Zidane do that. Congrats Italy.

I'm really surprised I made the top 5, go me! :P

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well done Matt :D


I wish I put a bet on Italy winning on penalties :rolleyes: wonder how much I would of got :unsure:
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I really want to know what the Italian player said to make Zidane do that.

It's not what he said but what he done. It looks like Materazzi possibly grabbed hold of Zidane's nipple <_<
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I really want to know what the Italian player said to make Zidane do that.

It's not what he said but what he done. It looks like Materazzi possibly grabbed hold of Zidane's nipple <_<

Yeah I heard that <_<
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hey what hapned to zidan!!!!

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I've been away all weekend and didn't catch either match, but yay I came first! :D

*pops open champagne*
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matts
Jul 9 2006, 11:17 PM

*pops open champagne*

hope you are going to share some of that with others within the top 5 :whistle: :P

you would of made quite a few bob if you put on bets with your predictions throughout the tournament :) or did you on the sly :whistle: :unsure:
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VIVA ITALIA!!
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~LovelyRita~
Jul 9 2006, 11:56 PM
I really want to know what the Italian player said to make Zidane do that.

Me too!

Argh, for the first time in my life I actually liked France and Zidane (he used to turn my stomach for some reason) and they go and lose to Italy.
Poo.

But hey. Que será será.
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matts
Jul 9 2006, 11:17 PM

*pops open champagne*

hope you are going to share some of that with others within the top 5 :whistle: :P

you would of made quite a few bob if you put on bets with your predictions throughout the tournament :) or did you on the sly :whistle: :unsure:

Yes of course, bubbly for all!! :D

I'm not actually a betting man, but if I were then I'd probably have got them all totally wrong!
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