Who would you prefer to win a World Cup final between England and Germany?

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Originally Posted by Hither green

I'm not keen on either of them but it's a bit harsh to describe them as stools :D

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I don't know about that. There seems to be a fair amount of concensus that England are ****.

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Originally Posted by REVIP

I hate the English gutter press and don't undertand why anyone here buys the British tabloids.

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Because they're hypocritical braindead idiots.
Chances are that they're the same people who complain about the English media yet feel compelled to buy their newspapers.

I was living in London during WC 98 and I gave the usual Irish retort of "we would never hear the end of it if you lot won it" to a confused looking englishman I was having a beer with. "What on Irish television?" he indignantly inquires.:o

From what I've seen on TV last night I can only be sure of one thing (at least...). Germany won't win the WC, nor will England.
Germany struggled for the whole game against Japan (who made a very strong impression) and should have lost by 3 or 4 goals to nil.
But as usual they were lucky and managed to get a draw.
There is a real hype now going on in Germany after their 7-0 victory over Luxembourg !!! Believe or not. But yesterdays display was awful.

Did anyone see in that B international last week the diving of one Joe Cole when he came on. The commentators merely stated: 'Joe Cole trying to win a peno there'. Had it been a long-haired latino player they would have ranted on about the disgraceful culture of diving in such countries etc. Just another example of the bias of their media.

Agree with Londonirish7 , neither of them have a prayer but if both made the final id watch old episodes of Glenroe instead :)

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Originally Posted by Beavis

Did anyone see in that B international last week the diving of one Joe Cole when he came on. The commentators merely stated: 'Joe Cole trying to win a peno there'. Had it been a long-haired latino player they would have ranted on about the disgraceful culture of diving in such countries etc. Just another example of the bias of their media.

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Yeah cos if Duff , Keane etc done the same we would castigate them of course:rolleyes:

England but can't vote cos polls closed.

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Originally Posted by gustavo

Yeah cos if Duff , Keane etc done the same we would castigate them of course:rolleyes:

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I wouldnt personally, because I dont complain about the people who dive, IMO its up to the refs to repremand them. The RTE panel for example do complain about disgraceful diving and I believe they would call Duff or Keane on blatant diving, and I even think they have done in the past.

Well , in an effort to get this thread back on topic, after today's results ,it's not going to happen in THIS World Cup anyhoo :D