Wazza indeed. (I always though that was short for wanker tbh.) I don't think you could call it a whooping though. England showed some decent attacking movement for a change, just lacked that final quality, crosses etc. Encouraging for the future, Sterling et al. Today, looking forward to more games. Switzerland, France and the Argies for me, good players in each squad.
I like to root for 1 underdog. Im going for Switzerland, Honduras and Argentina. Honduras play hard if they can wear down the French through most of the game without conceding a goal they could sneak one in on the final 10 minutes. £5 on those 3 teams to win is a £195 return
We did alright last night to be fair. Italy are always a difficult team since they're truly elite. Rooney was playing out of position but even when he got into his normal position he didn't do much
now it should make sense, why on Earth I cursed and shouted what I wrote earlier. Of course I am aware that Brazil has done jack and shit before that. But the corruption about the WC is not making it better. And I could go in fact about death-squads before that (many years before that). And so forth.
When nobody bit the first time round did you not take the hint that some people might want an escape from the doom and gloom that currently seems to be everywhere? It sucks that Brazil is rife with poverty, it truly does and maybe the money they've spent building stadiums could've been spent to do something about it, but there could also be more money potentially that come from holding the tournament in your country, the tourism during the cup alone is likely to make huge profits, not to mention continued tourism after the tournament. Boycotting the world cup when you heard about this latest "movement" a month ago is useless and this should've kicked off 7 years ago when Brazil became the host country, but this is the way the current "movements" go, this entire thing is going to end up being an absolute farce just like Kony was. Faux activisits need to die out. To reiterate since I know you're likely to respond with a post filled with emotion, I think poverty sucks and seven years ago thought it was stupid a country rife with poverty would be given the chance to host it which requires a lot of money, with later potential returns.
Emotion ? Yes, more pictures ? Not really . More cursing ? Nope . But the money and the potential returns are something I doubt. Even though it could be good, but just look at how the police has gone nuts in Brazil, not just now, but before that. And so on and so forth. Quite frankly, I am sick and tired of seeing the corruption.
^^ +1000 :thumbs-up: :smile-new: ... it's good when a dose of reality is applied every now and then. can't really escape the misery if it's just a fuckin illusion of escape... did i see a 'ftwc' along the lines? GOOD! agreed, i can't get away from it over ere, if the coppers aren't dosed out of their tiny minds 'enforcing' their brand of crowd control, the crowds/meatheads (hooligan mobs) tend to police themselves...if they're not attacking anybody not involved with the farce! (yes, the trickle economics should be filtering a massive chunk of the capital generated from these NWO distractions to the lower classes/existing urban dev/repairs, but reality has a way of educating the least aware of us. says a LOT for the standard who's head is perpetually stuck in the clouds. .... pfft, soccer?! who needs it when most have NO choice of escaping it?
I live in Brazil, and let me say. Its a poor country? More or less, let's say that is the normal mode in that 8-bit life game image, it's a country that has entered on the High HDI (there is the Very High one) few years ago, we have our problems, especially with what the state should be giving to us (Health, education, transport and etc...), but it's not something like most countries from Africa, in fact, it's more developed than the entire continent (unless for a country or two). It's good that the people finally decided to wake up, but they are doing stupid things too, destroying stores, objects and whatsoever that has nothing to do with the country problems, and to worse, in the beginning of this month, public transport syndicates used the World Cup as a "scapegoat" to do a strike menace because the government would probably raise the workers salaries easily, but it didn't happen like that and most people that need public transport got screwed up, either by bus or subway. To worse, the Syndicates have "relationships" with the goverment, so think that they are only doing benefits for the high people there, the last strike was from the subway, workers wanted a 12 and something percent raise of their salary, goverment offered 8,7% and said that it could raise more than that, appearently these workers earn more than most of the people here, like most of the public servants (except for police and teachers, believe me), and rather doing something like, 50% percent on strike and the rest working on the subway, nah, they screwed more than 4.5 million for almost a week, and even menaced to not open in the first world cup day. The goverment decided to fire 42 workers, and stated that if they wouldn't return, more of them would be fired. The subway syndicate decided to agree with the 8,7%, and now is trying to get the fired ones back in the work. I am not against the World Cup, when Brazil was elected in 2007 people were happy, and then in the half of 2013 the protests begun, with some idiots saying that "There won't be a World Cup", sure thing, you're just 6 years late.
There's no way they're gonna make back the money that's been spent on the World Cup, the last one ended up being a huge financial loss for South Africa, which also had to build expensive world-class stadiums that ended up operating at a loss after the World Cup. Still, I'm not gonna boycott, it won't change anything since FIFA is insanely corrupt and any change would have to come inside the organization, which won't happen. At least they've got company in the FIA and the IOC as far as corrupt sports organizations go.
FFS people, there is a politics thread for this shite. There are problems all over the world, people like / want / deserve a bit of time to forget all that shit. (Oh, and I see that troll is back...sad face. At least I don't see his rubbish.) Now, today's games...if that's ok with everyone?!? Three hard to call ties imo... Germany v Portugal - could be a cracker, could be a squib. I'll go for Germany. Iran v Nigeria - no idea hahaha. Hope for some Nigerian flair to see them to the win. Ghana - USA - Klinsmann effect so the US shades it for me.
I guess letting people enjoy discussing a bit of mindless escapism is beyond you. Perhaps there should be no international entertainment events paid for from the public purse. There are, after all, no countries on the planet untouched by greed, corruption, poverty. Shame...
Yeah, and while everybody was so super happy about Eurovision song contest, then Racists, and neo nazis were in a GIANT clash with anti-fascists at Christiansborg castle the same day. And what a "joy" that was. Seriously smell the shit you standing on. And understand "mindless escapes" can be done much more non-corrupt. Than FIFA or Eurovision "song" contest.
Dude, I work in AML, ABC etc. I reckon I know more about global corruption than most. You really want to make a difference, join various lobby / pressure groups. TI always needs more hands... @ A Toubib - likewise. Iirc he has yet to perform in World or Euro finals,a bit like Wazza, and I'm hoping 2014 is no different.
lobby / pressure groups don't do dick. And the politicians, they don't do anything either. And I prefer being neutral on many levels. Cause there I can see the reality better.
Oh.....I see..... Another person that likes to point out all the world's ills, but when it comes to stepping up to at least TRY and do something, well, you like to take the do nothing neutral approach with the oft-repeated 'nothing/no-one will do any good' stance. Newflash. People are doing lots of wonderful things globally to tackle poverty and corruption. (Nice that you so calmly and readily dismissed their efforts.) Will their combined efforts eliminate either, of course not. Will their thinking dream up a silver bullet to eridicate both, of course not. Does sitting back moaning about it actually help anyone, of course not. You've always struck me as an interesting member with a lot of good points to raise. But if all you are won't to do is point out the problems with the world, well hopefully you appreciate that you are not helping the situation in any way (especially arguing the toss in a World Cup tournament thread on a video gaming / dev / collector forum), and arguably contributing towards it (at least via omission). It's great you have a (seemingly) sound moral compass, but if you want to espouse principles, actually make steps to live up to and promote them, otherwise your 'message' carries no weight whatsoever. (I'd love to carry on this discussion with you, just not on a thread about World Cup games!) TLDR - How does staying neutral so you can 'see the reality better' help anyone, help make any change... So.....Ronaldo is starting it seems, and claims to be 100%. I wonder, if his performance is lacking, whether he'll stick to that!
I think that question was answered. Portugal lack discipline. It wasn't Ronaldos fault at all, but man, after the first goal it was a complete collapse.
Indeed, or so I've been told. Missed that game (for now..the wonders of the replay) with work and commute. Although as an Englishman I will argue that Germany simply makes opponents lose discipline! Scarily calm and composed. Edit...13th match, 1st stinker of the tournament!
