World Cup thread on Wall of Mouths

My office sweepstake is a predictions league - 1 point for the right result, 3 points for right score. I put Germany 2-0 Costa Rica and Poland 2-0 Ecuador so I’m on 1 point so far.

Today I predicted:

England 3-1 Paraguay
Sweden 2-0 Trinidad and Tobago
Argentina 3-2 Ivory Coast

Posted on Sat, 10 June 2006 at 07:39

#40

zipless wrote:

motherh666 wrote:
Poland is going to tear them apart. I’d go so far as a 4:0

Not a bad call there :p

Posted on Sat, 10 June 2006 at 08:53

#41

Taunty Dan wrote:

the Poles were bad weren’t they?! :D Mind you, i didn’t think much to the Germans either. Their defence is laughable.

Posted on Sat, 10 June 2006 at 08:59

#42

zipless wrote:

Poles had a bad day… mind you, they are already with their backs against the wall going into the Germany game. Ze Germans defence was bad at times, but I enjoyed their attacking style of play. Lahm was great on the left. And Kahn should be number1, Lehmann is crap!

I am tempted to make predictions for today’s game, but I shall refrain…

Posted on Sat, 10 June 2006 at 09:03

#43

Taunty Dan wrote:

oh i agree, lehmann was shite! he was only called on twice and ballsed it up both times! But like you say, they look confident up front. I couldn’t believe their first and last goals. Especially the first, takes a lot of confidence to to that in competition.

Come on mate, gimme your predictions for today! :D

Posted on Sat, 10 June 2006 at 09:07

#44

zipless wrote:

Allright then, here goes:

Sweden 4 - 1 Trinidad&Tobacco

Argentina 1 - 1 Ivory Coast

EDIT: sorry, spelling mistake. Should have been Trinidad&Tabasco

Posted on Sat, 10 June 2006 at 09:20

#45

Dermot (The Derm) wrote:

What about Enger-land?

I was cheering on Poland cos they have the most Celts in the tournament (2). Can’t see them going through now though

Posted on Sat, 10 June 2006 at 09:44

#46

rocking roxy wrote:

England 2-1 Paraguay
Sweden 3-2 Trinidad and Tobago
Argentina 2-1 Ivory Coast

Posted on Sat, 10 June 2006 at 10:32

#47

zipless wrote:

Dermot wrote:
What about Enger-land?

Erm well… what about them. I don’t dare predict any scores for England as it usually ends in tears and heartbreak. And as poxy as it may sound anything can happen in this game. England are over-confident (as always) but at the same time I do rate Paraguay as a rather good team. So, there you go! :p

Posted on Sat, 10 June 2006 at 11:34

#48

Dermot (The Derm) wrote:

Ah, I see - fair enough!

Posted on Sat, 10 June 2006 at 12:08

#49

zipless wrote:

I wasn’t too far off with my prediction for the match…

Posted on Sat, 10 June 2006 at 15:29

#50

up_in_flames (Tom) wrote:

England - Paraguay was fucking boooring!

Hope the two upcoming games today will be better! :o

Posted on Sat, 10 June 2006 at 15:35

#51

RobbyVDH wrote:

Trinidad-Tobago rocked :D

Posted on Sat, 10 June 2006 at 18:03

#52

varshamail@tiscali.c wrote:

Just wanna say I’m half Italian,so when Erikson cocks it up again with the subs & brings on some 9year old who’s never played a premiership game before & we get knocked out I’ll just switch my allegiance!Italy always have the best kit too.Then of course Italy go all negative on us & try getting to the final with 1.0 wins & end up going home in the semis.Then what have I got to look forward to,another season of negative crap watching Bournemouth,under the tactical management of Sean O’dismal(sorry O’driscall).Any other B’mth fans out there feel the same?Think I’ll stick with my first love,music.Cooper Temple Clause wed at B’mth Opera House,it’ll be 90mins of pure heaven,unlike watching England/Bmth.

Posted on Sun, 11 June 2006 at 08:14

#53

White Psycho wrote:

I found it funny last night that people were singing along to Vindaloo by Fat Les with the line, “We’re gonna score one more than you.” Strange, it was the Paraguay team that scored for them!

Posted on Sun, 11 June 2006 at 09:48

#54

Punkwak (Tijn) wrote:

damn the dutch squad is a drama… :p

when plays belgium :D :D

;)

cheers

Posted on Mon, 12 June 2006 at 09:11

#55

Taunty Dan wrote:

well, pretty damned good opening weekend i thought folks. Argentina v Ivory Coast was the pick of the games. Who’d have thunk sweden wouldn’t be able to beat T&T?!

Poor-ish england performance, but at this stage its points that count so fuck it! :D

Posted on Mon, 12 June 2006 at 10:15

#56

motherh666 wrote:

RobbyVDH wrote:
Trinidad-Tobago rocked :D

I was sitting in a bar watching the game with a bunch of swedes and as the final whistle blew the barman put on TNT by ACDC at full volumne. Cracking.

Posted on Mon, 12 June 2006 at 11:21

#57

motherh666 wrote:

I think the Germany game was the best so far. Some issues with their offside trap, i.e. suicide would have been a better option, but some sexy football from them.

Predictions for later…

Italia - Ghana 3:0
USA - Czech republic 1:2
Australia - Japan 2:2

i think. Tough one.

Posted on Mon, 12 June 2006 at 11:23

#58

Taunty Dan wrote:

i can’t see italy scoring 3 mate. But then you never know! :D

Posted on Mon, 12 June 2006 at 11:25

#59

zipless wrote:

Righto, predictions for today:

Italy 1 : 2 Ghana