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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Jul 4, 2006 21:35:25 GMT
Go on then. Germany - Italy. No goals for 118 minutes, then two come along at once. Drama to the end. A classic because both teams wanted to win it, right to the death. Nobody rolled around in mock agony trying to get someone sent off. We got football, pure and simple, played in the best spirit, well refereed too. Thoroughly enjoyable. Does this make it a classic?   |
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jul 4, 2006 21:46:26 GMT
Just like buses, you wait 118 minutes for one then 2 come at the same time.
Enjoyable game though, non-stop action, not even the ref was bad this time.
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Post by frankiegth on Jul 5, 2006 16:19:15 GMT
It was an excellent game and was worthy of being the final.
It shows how defficient England are and come to that Portugal, both poor sides.
With the hosts now having been ko'd I'd like to see the Italians win it.
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Post by ojiveojive on Jul 6, 2006 13:28:47 GMT
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Post by medibot on Jul 6, 2006 16:47:54 GMT
Never was i expecting to say "they deserved that too" after two Italian goals at the end of extra time.
The referee had a stormer, the whole game was brilliantly dealt with.
Mind you, my dad said after, "they've been good enough to play like that for years, why don't they do it all the time?".
And therein lies Italian football...
Ilogical, mad, scandalous, but ultimately rather good.
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Jul 7, 2006 0:44:05 GMT
WTF?? You - a Welsh personage, talking total sense vis-a-vis footballing stuff?? Ah well. The truth will out I suppose |
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Post by medibot on Jul 7, 2006 13:34:58 GMT
Cheek... We can even admit to 4-5-1 being the worlds most useless and dream destroying tactic in the world ever without having to scapegoat somebody else as well. Who remembers the russian drug cheat? Nobody cos even though after we lost that playoff game with a drug cheat in the side we managed to get on with our lives without setting up www.ihateigortitov.com (i had to google the blokes name) Whoops, just went off on one there for no reason. Sorry. |
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Post by Giggy of Telford on Jul 7, 2006 16:02:21 GMT
We can even admit to 4-5-1 being the worlds most useless and dream destroying tactic in the world ever without having to scapegoat somebody else as well. I had been saying that all along, it is an awful formation, only formations possibly on par with it are the 5-4-1 and 5-2-3, I tried the latter in FIFA 2005, it's practically suicidal. 4-4-2's over-rated aswell, we all know the trick for success is a 5-3-2........when in doubt a 4-3-3 or in some cases a 3-4-3 are also good. 3-5-2 makes an ok variation of 5-3-2 if needs be. That's it for today on Formations 101......I've gone into rant mode again....... GIGGY AWAY! |
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Post by ojiveojive on Jul 7, 2006 21:33:21 GMT
It used to be 2-3-5 in my day, but then we tried to win every game |
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Post by bonehead on Jul 8, 2006 10:35:48 GMT
Ah the good old days of teams trying to win games whether they're home or away <sigh> It doesn't matter if your team is in the Championshi* or Conf North, losing away is a heinous crime so you play stifling tactics and take no prisoners in defence. Bring back proper football
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on Jul 9, 2006 11:25:30 GMT
Anyone remember when the Conference experimented with 3pts for an away win and 2pts for a home win? It was supposed to encourage the away team to "go for it". Maybe i was unlucky but saw so many games where the away side either snatched an early goal then "shut up shop" or just dropped anchor and hoped to get a breakaway that the footy actually became far more frustrating to watch!
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Post by samd on Jul 9, 2006 12:34:24 GMT
Cheek... We can even admit to 4-5-1 being the worlds most useless and dream destroying tactic in the world ever without having to scapegoat somebody else as well. Who remembers the russian drug cheat? Nobody cos even though after we lost that playoff game with a drug cheat in the side we managed to get on with our lives without setting up www.ihateigortitov.com (i had to google the blokes name) Whoops, just went off on one there for no reason. Sorry. No scapegoats here.....we lost fairly. The whole thing about Ronaldo is that they guy is a blatant diving cheat and it's people like him who are ruining our game. Difference is between us and everyone else is that we are actually prepared to stand up and say something about it. And as I understand it certain Welsh people were very bitter about the whole Russian drugs cheat so please don't try and paint Wales as a picture of innocence. God knows I've witnessed enough hateful anti-english venom from Welsh people to shatter that little myth. |
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Post by medibot on Jul 9, 2006 17:33:13 GMT
Difference is between us and everyone else is that we are actually prepared to stand up and say something about it. Yeah, after you lost... Yes, at the time we were all f**k**g livid but now ask people about that play-off and people just talk about the stupidity of 4-5-1 which should mean we should scapegoat Sparky for being a bl**dy idiot but nobody does. |
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Post by bonehead on Jul 10, 2006 20:23:48 GMT
WTF?? You - a Welsh personage, talking total sense vis-a-vis footballing stuff?? Ah well. The truth will out I suppose <spots a member of the Taffier Mafia and claims his £5> :-) |
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 11, 2006 1:41:09 GMT
Hee hee, come on, pay up!
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