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

**John83** · 24/05/2006, 9:02 AM

Originally Posted by Hither green

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

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

**nlgbbbblth** · 27/05/2006, 4:27 PM

Originally Posted by REVIP

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

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.

**cheifo** · 28/05/2006, 11:53 PM

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.

**londonirish17** · 31/05/2006, 12:03 PM

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.

**Beavis** · 31/05/2006, 1:06 PM

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.

**osgood was good** · 12/06/2006, 3:15 AM

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

**gustavo** · 12/06/2006, 12:06 PM

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.

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

**micls** · 12/06/2006, 12:46 PM

England but can't vote cos polls closed.

**Beavis** · 30/06/2006, 1:38 PM

Originally Posted by gustavo

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

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.