Pfft. ITV analysis. Tonight is RTÉ and Apres Match all the way! Always enjoy this bit.
Watching Brazil is like seeing how the 1970 team would defend in the modern game.
*Runs*
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Pfft. ITV analysis. Tonight is RTÉ and Apres Match all the way! Always enjoy this bit.
Watching Brazil is like seeing how the 1970 team would defend in the modern game.
*Runs*
You're getting into morality again Stutts. It's Robben all over again.
I don't have RTE in North West London.
ITV commentator talking about the problems facing Brazil and how only now are they starting to think about it. They don't have a strong league. The public don't relate to the well paid overseas players. The public only gets behind the team when they're successful (prior to Confed cup they weren't popular), best players leave the country before 15.
My god, we're just like Brazil.
Not to mention incompetent and corrupt state and NGB.
I have it in Central Ottawa. RTE.ie and unblock-us.com
This ref is having a shocker. Doesn't matter that Oscar started a bit of a dive before being clattered; that's a penalty.
Brazil could be down to nine men with some of the challenges they're putting in (allowing a red in the first minute)
Omg, that was a nailed on penalty.
What was I saying about bone to bone. Bloody hurts. This time it was the fouler though. Surely the ref must be seeing Blind stretchered off after an alleged dive by his opponent and thinks, oh oh.
It never gets old this Brazil losing lark.
Forget Apres Match, Alkin and Kerr were in fine form tonight. Obviously no longer gave a toss about the competition, spent half the night cracking awful jokes about the two teams, with Kerr keeping up his "Namedrop Irish club football" streak.
That's the proper way to treat such a non-event of a game.
Anyone looking forward to this or has this tourney taken such a boring path that its sucked out all of your enthusiasm?
And how are fans of the game who happen to be Jewish rooting? Where the nazis lived and worked, then where they retired to.
3rd Place Play-Off has had the benefit of having some decent enough games over the last few tournaments - I still think Germany/Uruguay was the best game of the tournament in 2010 - but when its stinker like this you really do start to question why its still played.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
That's GER-URU game was a rarity. Especially considering that it was bonus territory for both teams.
This time round the two teams didn't want to be there. The Dutch though showed their professionalism.
Crozzer, by all means bring your quirky wit to these pages but if you have lost interest in the tournament, which you clearly did a while back, maybe just sit out this section of the forum?Quote:
Originally Posted by Crosby87
I was curious what you guys felt about it. Apologies. Im down on sports. I mean this baseball season is widely regarded as awful but I still watch the mets.
But this is a pretty good match so far I guess.
That it is. Best final in a long while.
I still think that Germany left a lot out there against Brazil.
Thought it was pretty poor stuff myself. Very few chances created, apart from two that the Germans handed to the Argentinians. Very well taken goal from Goetze though.
Germany are worthy winners of the tournament, but that final wasn't great at all.
Not a really brilliant final. Very tense alright, and watchable. But long boring stretches, especially in the second. Germany the better side, big time. Delighted this squad has won a trophy. Argentina lucky to finish with 11, which annoyed me.
Messi winning the Golden Ball is a disgraceful decision, pure and simple.
I'm glad the final was won by a truly great goal. The game itself had all the makings of a taut tense classic, but like the Dutch / Argentina game it needed a good final phase to be considered a great game rather than a dull sluggfest.
I think it was an important outcome for football generally. What'd be the point of a really fun tournament with lots of goals and, in most cases, good contests played by teams looking to win and in a generally fair manner, if a team tuned up to draw 0-0 twice in a row and win on pens?
Germany weren't perfect but they deserved it. Great outcome for football - our sport / my sport and lifelong passion - and, importantly, Ordoliberalism.
(Look it up)
Shame about Rovers today though :(
I thought that was a really good game. Lots of mistakes by both sides but lots of quality too and lots of heart and commitment. The big players all played well.