So how will you decide which team to adopt as you're own now that Ireland aint through !!
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So how will you decide which team to adopt as you're own now that Ireland aint through !!
Maybe ask this lot for help ...
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Spain as usual for me provided they get through the play off
One of either Germany, Mexico or the US. The better half was born in Germany. Live in the States and Mexico's only half an hour away. Hmmmmm :rolleyes:
US fkin A
I'm supporting the underdogs-France:rolleyes::D
be an african or european team, really undecided
sweden
poland
germany(probably most likely, always had a soft spot for them)
will consider some of the african teams, good to see lots in the cup this year! maybe our flagsake, Ivory Coast!
Seriously, I'd like to see Ghana or the Ivory Coast do well, but I know Brazil are going to win it again:o
NORWAY ! If Ireland (or Belgium) would have been through it would have made no difference anyway, Norway is and has always been my nr 1.
If Norway is present in Germany, I will watch the WC with passion. If not, I will just watch Togo, Angola, Uzbekistan and the other newbies out of interest.
Yugoslavia, Turkey and of course whoever England happen to be playing :)
Sligoman A south american team has never won the worldcup in europe and a european team has never won it outside europe so I wouldn't be presenting the trophy to ronaldinho et. al. just yet
I think the Dutch can finally do it this time(once they can keep from killing each other)
Its gotta be England for me.....:D
Brazil 1958.Quote:
Originally Posted by Block G Raptor
Either the Italians or the Argie Bargies.
Have to say now that I think of it I like the current German team. Lukas Podolski, Bastien Schweinsteiger, Carsten Mertesacker. some class names there. Good players too,
Are you going to get a time machine????Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
It will have to be the winner of the Bahrain v Trinidad & Tabago playoff for me.
Ivory Coast - backwards Irish flag. I can see a fair few Irish heading over to Germany anyway and supporting them and hanging up the flags! :p
Otherwise, definitely the smallest country ever to play in the World Cup - winner of Bahrain v. T&T. Is Avery John still playing for them?!
Iran for me also the Ivory Coast.
anyone thats playing against england
will end up supporting Germany and Ivory Coast, however will be supporting Japan also, they gave us tremendous support in 2002 world cup....
Sorry Block G but history doesn't mean a thing in football;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Block G Raptor
I hope Uzbekistan can qualify, and Bahrein or T&T will also get my sympathy (unless playing Norway).
Great as well to see more debutantes and new teams to discover: I much rather have a new team to get to know (Angola and Togo) then once again those stars from Nigeria and Cameroon.
They're out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerrit
Used support Spain cos they've quality players but they will NEVER make a proper team out of themselves. Always bickeringg. Pirennial under-achievers.
I will decide by picking the most oppressed african team. Ha.
Mongolia out?
Well there are no Celtic nations left... so Croatia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mexico and, if they make it, Sweden.
13-0 on aggregate to the Maldives, I think. You'll be waiting a while before they're in the World Cup!Quote:
Originally Posted by Risteard
Sweden have qualified as one of the two best runners-up.
AVERY! AVERY! AVERY!... JOHN! JOHN! JOHN!
AVERY JOHN! JOHN! JOHN!
AVERY JOHN! JOHN! JOHN!
AVERY JOHN! JOHN! JOHN!
AVERY JOHN! JOHN! JOHN!
AVERY!
JOHN!
AVERY!
JOHN!
AVERY! AVERY! AVERY!... JOHN! JOHN! JOHN!
(I will cheer for T&T ;) )
Serbia-Montenegro of course. :D
Will also look out for Angola (MPLA & Jose Quitongo)
I don't really like big teams, so won't be going for Brazil, Germany, France, et al.
On the other hand, I want to be able to follow a team with a decent chance of progressing a few rounds. Maybe I'll go for the US in light of the fact that I've spent so much time over there recently (and I own a DC United shirt). If I had to go for a European team it would probably be the Netherlands as I have quite a few Dutch friends (and I spreek enn klein beitje Nederlands).
Alternative options are Japan, or maybe Ghana (they're probably alot of the same guys Kerr's U-20 team beat to 3rd place out in Malaysia).
And, of course, whoever England are playing!
Who won in Sweden 58 then? Always thought it was Brazil. :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Block G Raptor
Right. Still one of my favourite teams (Norway is my fav, but Mongolia makes my global top-10) because of my fascination for the country. I hope to spend some months in Mongolia one of the coming years, it all seems such an amazing country and culture to discover...Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
U.S.A. and Brazil. Would also like to see Togo do well.
Gotta be Toga ... and whoever I get in the team draw in work!
Dou you mean Togo or Tonga or the Roman garment??Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I'll be cheering on the Croats as I've a liking for them going back to the magical team of Suker, Boban and Co.
Brazil will also get my backing as that's who the yoyos are gone on, and also because top class players deserve the trophies that their talent merits.
I'll be keeping a tight eye on Henri Michel's Ivory Coast in Germany next Summer. With former Everton legend Ibrahima Bakayoko (who could ever forget that 30 yard bullet he scored against Southampton in Goodison!) and Chelsea frontman Didier Drogba they could well cause an upset or two along the way. As it happens, they'll represent the nearest thing to tricolour in next year's finals... :(
Fcuk the lot of em, especially England. I'm not gonna be too bothered by it all. Lookin forward to the next unity cup thing instead:rolleyes:
If Poland do well it will be strange to see them celebrating on our streets considering how many Poles live in Ireland..so i hope they do well...
Also i am going to put money on England to win it..i know we slag them about this but i think if some team like Argentina maybe could knock out Brazil in a knock-out stage England could very easily win it..if England have to play Brazil they will probably lose though..
I'll be supporting whoever I decide to stick my €100 on
Japan, seeing as I'm living here, although in Zico they have a coach of such ineptitude that Troussier, (who in my opinion was no hero either) looks like a genius. They wont do well in the World Cup, but I'll be cheering for them.
I will be backing Zamunda!!:D Nah, seriously, I haven't made up my mind. Cannot see beyond Brazil or Argentina winning the trophy. As for the African teams, Tunisia are under pressure to get out of the group stages, I can see the Ivory Coast and Ghana upsetting somebody. I do not think that Angola or Togo has the depth to spring a surprise, but I may be wrong. Winners of Trinidad and Tobago and Bahrain to be the whipping boys of the World Cup. I expect the Asian sides to settle back to their usual mediocrity. Surprise package of the World Cup for me could be the Ukraine.
I will be supporting Serbia/Montenegro along with Partizan. I have been a fan of Yugos since the 1974 World Cup.
And if and when they go out before the end I will be hopefully cheering for one of the following( assuming they are still there) Italy(always liked them) or Czech Republic( my other half is Czech).
The romantic in me would like to see Trinidad and Tobago and our backwards flag friends the Elephants do well.