The A2K World Cup 2014 Striker Fantasy Game

I wouldn't have Luiz on my Subbuteo team.



Although I would get the chance to flick him around a bit, nah.

Had to listen to the first fifteen minutes as I was stuck on the Motorway, but now 40 minutes in, cold beer to hand and sandwich being mentally planned for half time construction.

Really good game so far. I might even go so far as to say that Argentina might stand a chance!

From somewhat of a casual a newbie, this is well worth watching.

Hi Mr R.

Seeing as your liking the soccer you might want to chance your arm at the Barclays Fantasy Football League.
It's a bit of fun and gratis/free.
I've played it for the last couple of seasons, like I said a bit of fun.

Check it out.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/

Gaah, I was late to the start of the match and it took some catching up, reading fast. Meantime, I've been busy changing my allegiance to Argentina. That's probably dangerous to admit before added time.

Ok, added time now.

Bravo Deutschland

True, bravo Germany, even though I wasn't steadfastly for Germany to win through the match.

Now for the post mortems..

Argentina is still second best and they played a good game, so don't
cry for Argentina. Luck is always part of it and it wasn't with Messi & Co.

Congrats to Germany!

Best team won. Argentina's defense was strong though.

Thank you kindly for that invite. I barely know what I'm doing with sports that I know...like baseball and American Football. I'd be like a lamb to slaughter in soccer fantasy league!

Oh, that's the plan!

"Best team" is often decided by luck in sports.

Not at all... though now that you mention it.

You can form private mini leagues in it too, hmm.. maybe I should try get a A2K private league going.... just think of all those lambs to the slaughter, yourself excluded of course.

From my now rather dense reading (well, many many articles read by a person who doesn't really have, right now, any way to see the matches, thus has blank spots in tactics understanding), I do take it that Germany was technically at the top, even though not actually motorized perfection in action at all times... though there were other sharp teams. But I can love teams for lots of reasons that are unreasonable. The good news is I finally found some online football tutorials that don't require watching videos I can't access. These tutorials come with diagrams and helpful explanations.

Now I just need a dictionary to understand the everyday colloquial jargon of the British writers of the articles I read... sometimes we have a whole different language.

At one point I read a soccer day's worth of Wall Street Journal world cup play by play, but there was better information in the Guardian's articles - more observations, fast fast fast, more photos, and sometimes videos that did work for me. Apparently their videos, even if youtube, aren't adobe flash dependent. Plus some neat music from time to time..

Maybe in the next four years I'll pay attention to Club football, but I'm not up for fantasy association football just yet.
Besides, it's almost time to start reading about what's happening in american football.

Well, maybe an a2k league - less embarrassing.


Meantime, Fbaezer won, didn't you, Pancho? Hearty congratulations.

Yes he did, congrats Fbaezer. And thanks for hosting an enjoyable thread.

Hear Hear!!

Well done Fbaezer ((Champion))

I was just wondering about the fellow Kramer who had what seemed like a concussion - and found this as I was just looking at Slate.com to check if there was anything interesting there (I like that site less and less).

So, and article about Fifa and Kramer and concussions -
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_spot/2014/07/13/christoph_kramer_latest_world_cup_head_injury_shows_fifa_really_really_doesn.html

Interesting article..

Phase 3 standings:
George was the only one to have Mario Götze in his team. But it was not enough.

Pantalones wins round 3!

1. Pantalones 10
2. McGentrix 8
2. Lordyaswas 8
4. George 7
5. fbaezer 5
5. Timur 5
7. ossobuco 4
8. hingehead 4
9. Ticomaya 3
9. eurocelticyankee 3
11. lmur 2