FIFA World Cup 2006 [R]

nimh wrote:

Italy, by 1-0, and Switzerland, by 2-1 after extension.

(Hah! I might as well have drawn lots from a barrel...)

Shoulda bet on it!

Sorry, Aussies ... I'm feelin' you.

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Did that Swiss player just wink at the panning camera during his national anthem? Laughing

And can I assume that the Ukrainian players who were not singing along with theirs were the ethnic Russian ones? ;-)

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I posted that I decided to stay with the Swiss, lost the post in the hamster cycling race. We'll see soon enough..

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In the case that you wonder what the (German) spectators are singing, here's the translation:"Without Holland, we are driving to Berlin ..." :wink:

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I'm sticking with the Swiss. I was wrong about the Aussies, though, sadly.

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

In the case that you wonder what the (German) spectators are singing, here's the translation:"Without Holland, we are driving to Berlin ..." :wink:

Thats ok - I remember when we did "Deutschland, Deutschland, alles ist vorbei" :wink:

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aaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! Crying or Very sad

and in the middle of the bloody night!

fbaezer wrote:

Australia played a great game, and has earned the respect of the world football community (a respect nations known as powerhouses often lose). It lacked the individual who made the difference, but was the better team on the field. But the game is for the one who scores, and Italy knows this way too well.

The penalty was rigorous, as we say. It could have perfectly not been marked, as well. The shirt counts, who knows if the referee would have marked it, han an Australian attacker fallen.

Thanks, fbaezer - well - we came to play, and play we did! Holding Italy out for 90 minutes - just amazing!

Penalty shootout - Switzerland v Ukraine - I'm off. Been a boring game so far!!

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Well, thats that. Even in the penalties the Swiss failed to get any goal. Ukraine vs Italy in the quarter finals

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The game was so boring that after the 90 minutes I went to do some errands just to entertain myself a bit.
Came back exactly at penalty shoot-out time and told my co-workers, it would end 1-0. Close, eh?

nimh is right. Life is unfair.
God, why did you make us play against Argentina and not against this lackluster teams?

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Jeez, I'm 0 for 2 today. I better stop picking. Yeah, Mexico could've taken either of those teams. What a shame.

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margo wrote:

aaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think margo has expressed very succinctly the feelings of a great many Australians today.

Just because we are a nation built on a convict past doesn't mean we deserve to be robbed !!!!!

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I thought the ref in the oz/italy match was OK - he sent off an Italian, Australia couldn't take advantage. As I said at the very start of this thread:

we could sneak into the 2nd round with a win against Japan and a draw against croatia.

we lack finishers (regardless of their form at club level - no-one consistently delivers at international level)

In all honesty Australia had 60% of the play, but Italy had most of the decent shots on goal.

The revelation for me is that we can play - as a long time watcher of our national team I'm impressed with the quantum jump in team play. It a revelation to see the italians relying on the long kick and chase instead of us (of course, they do do it very well).

On first impressions the penalty was fair - and that's all the ref's got.

Schwartzer guessed which direction it would go but Totti hit it perfectly. I doubt too many of the teams left are worrying about the Italians - but this cup has been won by slow starters before (you know who I'm talking about Brazil).

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hingehead wrote:

we lack finishers (regardless of their form at club level - no-one consistently delivers at international level)

I know sweet F.A about soccer, but even I've picked that one up. Even against Brazil they had plenty of chances to score, but just couldn't put it away.

I watched half of the second game, but with Australia gone, soccer has returned to the mind numbing boredom I've always felt watching it.

I think there needs to be some research on this nervous system problem which seems to plague soccer players......

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Wilso wrote:

I watched half of the second game, but with Australia gone, soccer has returned to the mind numbing boredom I've always felt watching it.

You mean Switzerland-Ukraine? Nah, it was just a really boring game, everybody seems to agree on that one..

Meanwhile, for some cute distraction y'all click here:

India: Bihar's football crazy girls

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Our non-Australian forumpeople mightn't realise that a big angle for the media here is the mixed passions of migrants and children of migrants re Australia and the home country meeting in the world cup, much of it has been a long the lines of 'at least if one team loses I still have a team to follow'.

Well now that der kickeroos are out I have to trace my matrilineal lines and support Germany (my mother was born in Berlin!).

Raised on English football (go Sunderland...) I still can't force myself to support the 'whinging' poms. That said I think I say nicer things about them then the Lord, Steve, and the British tabloids do.

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http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/775/zwischenablage017gy.jpg

Link to related online report in today's The Guardian (source for above: page 15)

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From the same source as above, page 31:

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/285/zwischenablage014gv.jpg

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/4008/zwischenablage010jd.jpg

Related report: Red cards and recriminations: have refs gone too far this time?

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hingehead wrote:

Well now that der kickeroos are out I have to trace my matrilineal lines and support Germany (my mother was born in Berlin!).

Ain't no consolation for me - my background is all Irish!

And we even walloped them at rugby last Saturday!

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

But ONLY TWO were sent off in the Croatia Australia match - one Croatian got THREE YELLOWS!!!!

And was I dreaming or did one of last night SBS commentators say that the ref in that match confused Craig Moore with Simunic? HELLO, THEY PLAY FOR DIFFERENT TEAMS (yes they both had number 3 on their backs, but...)

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I go two nil both games Spain and Brazil to go through.

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